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LIFE AWARD TO GIVE YOURSELF

May 24, 2025 by David Gillaspie

A life award usually comes to celebrities and dignitaries after decades of service, a lifetime of devotion, or a string of good luck. Community awards go to involved citizens, like the guy doing public service in the picture. What says ‘ Come To Portland’ better than snuggling up to the law? Always keep goods relations […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: adversity, Bruce Springsteen, celebrities, community awards, constabulary, devotion, dignitaries, good parenting, life awards, museum, museum man, museum world, NBA champ, parenting, police work, Portland, priceless artifacts, problem, public service, solutions, write

MUSEUM LIBRARY, LIBRARY MUSEUM

April 2, 2025 by David Gillaspie

A museum library is a two for one deal. Go to the museum, check out the library. Someone always gets a surprise. What’s the surprise?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, Baby Boomer blogger, Baby Boomers, Death, education, history, library, library museum, millennials, museum, museum library, story, writer, writers, writing

GILBERT HOUSE IN SALEM: CHILDREN’S MUSEUM, ADULT PLAYTIME, OR BOTH

February 23, 2025 by David Gillaspie

The Gilbert House Children’s Museum is fun for kids, a way for them to see new things in a new context. Gather up the kids and grandkids for an afternoon of the usual? Nope, not at the Gilbert House. There’s something undeniably sweet going on there for the big kids, the adults.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: A.C. Gilbert, adult playtime, blogger, care, children's museum, dads, education, erector set, fun, Gilbert House, history, history degree, kids, learning, magic, magician, moms, museum, museum man, museum time, Phil Knight, playtime

ATTENTION SPAN DEBATE ON VALENTINES’S DAY: WHAT?

February 14, 2025 by David Gillaspie

A short attention span is normal? Older people like to joke about going into another room for some reason they can’t remember. It happens all the time, but there’s a hack: You have to stay in the room until you remember. That’s Michael Corleone wishing brother Fredo well.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: attention span, blog, blogger, boomerpdx, coment, debate, documentary, happy face, historical, history, Hubers, memories, museum, museum of you, Portland, Portlandia, Seahawk, valentine's day, wife, writer, writers, writing

HAPPY PLACE? KEEP LOOKING

February 12, 2025 by David Gillaspie

They say you’ll know your happy place when you get there. Who are ‘they?’ Happy people, that’s who ‘they’ are. Are they happy all the time? No, but . . .

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Army, Bill of Rights, blog, blogger, Constitution, declaration of independence, education, grandkids, happy place, history, keep looking, kids, making sense, marrieds, museum, museum manager, national archives, normal happy, rothko, smithsonian, travel, writer, writers, writing, WWII

FACT FINDING SEARCH FOR BETTER TRUTH

January 5, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Fact finding carries a promise to clear things up. If you find enough facts to change your mind on anything, good job. Who doesn’t enjoy a new attitude shining light on old things? I do, except for the fact part, which is the biggest question.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: aspirational, attitude, better facts, better story, better truth, blogger, boomerpdx, click bait, complete life, fact, fact finding, facts, finding, first marriage, free love, good relationship, hippies, hitchhiking, hopeful, impressionable, life, losers, MARRIAGE, museum, new attitude, second marriage, truth, truths, young

TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS IN WASHINGTON AND OREGON

December 4, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Traditions and customs reek of history and ceremony. Just the way I like it. The more the merrier is fitting for both. But, like George Harrison said, “All things must pass.”

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Bybee howell house, customs, Fort Vancouver, historical, history, learning, museum, museum crew, new, old, old and new, Oregon, Oregon History, review, traditions, traditions and customs, travel, trifle

DEDICATION, DEVOTION, WRITING A BLANK SCREEN ALIVE

April 4, 2024 by David Gillaspie

BoomerPdx spam is very encouraging with kudos for dedication, devotion, and persistence. Persistence, not pestilence. For the most part I work to promote persistence in whatever field you find yourself in. You didn’t get there by accident. It may have started from an accident, or happenstance, but once you settle in, keep going.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, big loser, big question, BOOMER, boomerpdx, bowery, dedication, devotion, education, empathy, fitness, history, history museum, kids, looking forward, museum, persistence, spam, the bowery, what happened, wife, writer, writers, writing

SAFE DATING OR SIDEWALK SERENADES

March 23, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Safe dating is the goal for everyone brave enough to step out of their comfort zone, get off the couch, and open the front door. Whether long term, short term, husband-wife, blind date, or one of those high school reunion prince and princess things you hear about, safety is paramount. But, if you’re anything like […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: apartment, Army, bad boy, blind date, college, comfort zone, dating, dreams, high school, hopes, husband, love affair, love torch, men, museum, nice girl, NW Portland, one woman, philadelphia, prom, relationship, relationships, safe dating, talk, wife, women

STORY MEDICINE PRESCRIPTION: READ AND WRITE

February 26, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Story medicine is good for what ails you. Why? Because you deserve a break. Things go bad, and you read a story about something worse? You might feel better. But what about when things are going good, never been better. What story is going to improve that?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: army medic, blog, blogger, boomerpdx, chiaroscuro, Death, history, medical, medical advice, medical problem, medicine, mona lisa, museum, New York City, New York story, Oregon, pound of flesh, read, readers, sfumato, story, story medicine, story telling, the Louvre, wife, write, writer, writers, writing