married Archives • Page 3 of 14 • BOOMERPDX

page contents Google

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

SELF DEFENSE WITH THE PROPER MOVES

January 11, 2026 by David Gillaspie

Self defense? I’ve never taken a class, but I encourage anyone to do it. Learn how to find a solution to a difficult problem. How much is too much? How far is too far? Where to start? In my mid to late teens I was a small town high school wrestler.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, avoiding trouble, baby boomer, Baby Boomer blogger, blog, blogger, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, defense, education, fitness, helpful, history, learning, Love, married, poor attitude, poor training, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, proper moves, self defense, sports, story, travel, trouble, twitter, 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

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

HOW TO GROW A SENSE OF WONDER IN PORTLAND OREGON

December 22, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Most of the time a sense of wonder in Portland means a painful memory from the days of old, of Meier and Frank downtown and the Georgian Room for tea. The place had a special aura during the holidays. The painful part? It hasn’t been there for years, Meier and Frank and the Georgian Room, […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, blog, blogger, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, Christmas, december, education, football, georgian room, history, hustle, married, Meier and Frank, Oregon, Oregon Ducks, painful memory, Portland, Portland Oregon, sports, story, streets, travel, urban, urban canyons, writer, writers, writing

UNCHECKED SPEECH, GUARDED WORDS

December 18, 2025 by David Gillaspie

If you’ve heard unchecked speech, then you know guarded words when someone says them. One might be a raving crack-head angling for another piece of the rock. The other might be a priest in a confessional. Each has their place, sometimes more than one place. There’s only one problem: If they switch back and forth […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, art museum, Baby Boomer blogger, Baby Boomers, blog, blog post, blogger, boomerpdx, booze, despair, drinking, drunk, education, family, family tree, guarded words, history, history museum, homeless, I love you, learning, Love, married, MOVING ON, old guy, old man, Oregon, speech, story, street people, unchecked speech, weight of loss, writer, writers, writing

WE THE PEOPLE, NOT PEE-POLE

December 10, 2025 by David Gillaspie

‘We the People’ are the difference makers others count on. Maybe not you or me, but the folks out there agitating for change, for better outcomes for themselves and their loved ones. Loved ones? You know, the people you think of when you get a warm fuzzy feeling that things are going the right direction […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blog, blogger, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, Constitution, education, freedom, history, ideologies, ideology, illegal order, justice, learning, liberty, magna carta, MARRIAGE, married, millennials, Oregon, pee, pee pole, Portland Oregon, story, things happen, Thomas Jefferson, travel, veterans, we the people, writer, writers, writing

GREAT WRITING: WHEN WORDS MATTER MORE

December 6, 2025 by David Gillaspie

From Google AI on current sentence construction: Basic Structure: Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) Subject: Who/what the sentence is about (e.g., Matt). Verb: The action or state of being (e.g., eats). Object: Receives the action (e.g., pizza). Example: “Matt eats pizza.”

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomer blogger, books, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, Death, education, family, fitness, GenX, genZ, great writing, history, inspiration, learning, married, matter, millennials, music, North Bend, Oregon, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon, reading, sentence, sentence structure, story, structure, travel, words, words matter, writer, writers, writing, writing books

YOU GOT BENCHED. THEN WHAT?

November 28, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Your favorite fading sports star got benched. It happens sooner or later. They couldn’t play up to standards anymore. It’s worse when it happens to a promising star with everything in front of them. The pressure got to them, they got hurt, and lost their way. It happens to everyone eventually. We all get benched. […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomer blogger, blog, blogger, boomerpdx, education, experience, family, good morale, high morale, learning, Love, MARRIAGE, married, millennials, morale, paying attention, universal truths, unlimited possibilities, value education, wishful thinking, writer, writing