MARRIAGE Archives • Page 3 of 24 • BOOMERPDX

page contents Google

ONE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE AFTER ANOTHER, 659 words

February 24, 2026 by David Gillaspie

Consider, if you will, the attraction industry’s ‘immersive experience.’ Go here, do this; Go there, do that. Repeat as needed, as desired, as often as you feel like escaping the life around you? If that’s the goal, sign me up. So far I’ve immersed in what no attraction industry would offer. Maybe I’m not in […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, attraction industry, baby boomer, Baby Boomer blogger, blog, blogger, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, fighters, history, immersive, immersive experience, immersive experiences, Joe frazier, MARRIAGE, millennials, story, travel, wife, writer, writers, writing

PROMISES MADE IS ONE THING, THEN WHAT

February 23, 2026 by David Gillaspie

Make a promise, keep it, and you’ve got promises made. It’s that easy, and that hard. It’s a badge of honor, but not a permanent one. Screw up, break your word, and you sink back into the muck with the rest of us losers trying our best to remember what we said we’d do. So […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, baby boomer, Baby Boomer blogger, blog, blogger, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, boomers, category, demographic, education, generation jones, GenJones, history, Jones generation, learning, Love, MARRIAGE, married, millennials, new demographic, new tag, promises, promises made, sandwich generation, story, tag, wife, writer, writing

WAY OF LIFE. WHOSE WAY OF LIFE?

February 20, 2026 by David Gillaspie

I hear the words ‘way of life’ and automatically think of tribes deep in the Amazon who have never been out of the jungle. Instead of the variety of life found in America, I go straight to pre-contact indigenous people, who of course have had contact since we know of them. Pre-contact? Amazon jungle? In […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: air quality, America, Baby Boomer blogger, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, blog, blogger, BOOMER, boomerpdx, breathing, clothing, common needs, Costco, debilitating disease, disease, education, food, history, inner city, learning, MARRIAGE, Maslow's hierarchy, New Seasons Markets, new york, old guy, older, older adult, paris, precolumbian, recontact, Robert Moses, shelter, sleep, story, urban, water, Way of life, wife, writer, writing

DREAM STREET: 82ND AVENUE PORTLAND OREGON

February 6, 2026 by David Gillaspie

Dream street? 82nd Avenue? Somebody wake me up? No, it’s not a dream, but a street of dreams. And those dreams came to life.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: 82nd Avenue, baby boomer, BOOMER, boomerpdx, boomers, dream street, foggy mountain breakdown, gray gables, husband, MARRIAGE, newly wed, Oregon, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon, wedding plans, wife

CAREFUL PLANNING TAKES TIME

January 26, 2026 by David Gillaspie

Planning, careful planning, is an essential element to all caring relationships. Especially the relationship you have with yourself, your inner-world with your inner-voice on a continuous narrative. ‘Let’s do this, then that, but this before that. And only on the weekend.’ What kind of a plan is that, a beer drinker’s weight loss plan? Nooooooo, […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, baby boomer, Baby Boomer blogger, blog, blogger, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, careful planning, crowds, education, fitness, good husband, historically accurate, history man, husband, Jan 6, kids, learning, Love, MARRIAGE, marriage of misery, married, moral guidance, moral guide, morals, more relevant, plan accordingly, planning, Portland Oregon, relationships, relevant, story, wife, writer, writers, writing

DOG WALKING FOR BEGINNERS

January 22, 2026 by David Gillaspie

This is the dog for dog walking, also known as ‘my dog.’ She gets excited for a walk, but only if you go as far as she wants to go. Go too far, make the wrong turn, and she sits down until you make the right turn. Quite a dog, the best dog I’ve ever […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, Baby Boomer blogger, blog, blogger, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, dog, dog walking, dogs, education, facebook, family, history, learning, MARRIAGE, old ladies, older people, story, travel, twitter, Walking, writer, writers, writing

ON REMEMBERING ANNIVERSARIES

January 6, 2026 by David Gillaspie

My wife is great for remembering anniversaries and birthdays. It’s an encyclopedic memory of family, friends, and pretty much anyone who has ever been born. At least that’s what it feels like in comparison to her husband, who is more selective. I remember plenty, I’m not saying I don’t, but ask me the birthday of […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: all good, America, anniversaries, anniversary, baby boomer, Baby Boomer blogger, blog, blogger, BOOMER, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, consequences, education, great, illegal order, law, law of the land, learning, Love, MARRIAGE, married, memory, remembering anniversaries, travel, wife, writer, writers, writing, WWII

NEW YEARS DAY WITH OREGON DUCKS

January 1, 2026 by David Gillaspie

My thanks go to the Oregon Ducks on New Years Day. Because of this college football team I watched three games in a row. With my wife. First, we talked:

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, baby boomer, Baby Boomer blogger, Baby Boomers, big-10, blogger, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, college football, Eugene, family, football, Georgia, go ducks, history, Indiana, MARRIAGE, Miami, millennials, ole miss, OOOOO, Oregon Ducks, SEC, sports, story, writer, writers, writing

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY DOES THE WORK OF TWO

December 30, 2025 by David Gillaspie

The entertainment industry is where you go with time to kill and you don’t workout. Pick up a book, a screen, go to a play. The last one, go to a play, is different because now you have to make plans for your anticipated spare time, which means scheduling, which is another word for work. […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomer blogger, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, crime, education, entertainment industry, family, fate, government services, history, learning, leisure time, Love, MARRIAGE, married, millennials, Portland Oregon, prison, punishment, spare time, story, travel, watergate, wife, writer, writers, writing

CONSISTENCY OVER TIME FOR THE WIN

December 29, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Consistency over time is not over-rated. Not under-rated either; some people call it a life-style. Others call it a habit of boring people. Well, if the name fits . . .

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: atiyeh's, big joke, blogger, boomer blogger, boomers, consistency, couch, dead drunk, different scene, dog, education, family, guitars, history, improvement, kids, learning, Love, MARRIAGE, married, music, OVER TIME, rug, song, story, travel, under promise, vodka, wife, writer, writers, writing