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REINVENTING FRIENDSHIP: MIDLIFE GUYS

July 24, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Try reinventing friendship when your main guys move away. It happens, and it will happen more than once. You might move away, they might move away, then what? How do you break in new friends?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, blogger, boomerpdx, boomers, contemporary blogger, friends, friendship, guitars, male bonding, male friendship, midlife, musician, new friends, reinventing friendship, Social media

DISPLACED WORKERS ‘RETIRED’ FROM OLD JOBS

January 5, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Displaced workers retire? From what? Ask a Coos Bay logger about it, or a Charleston commercial fisherman. What did they retire from? Getting jacked around by new ideas on sustainability.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: aged out, automation, Coos Bay, displaced workers, dogs, fishermen, historical industry, history, history workers, loggers, new friends, slaves, sustainability, the truth, workers

AGING UP, NOT OUT

September 26, 2022 by David Gillaspie

For aging up, you need a good role model. This is mine, my mother in law. She aged up well right until the end.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: aging, aging out, aging up, Baby Boomers, business group, cancer clinic, limits, new friends, Nurturing, Oregon, paris, participate, Portland Oregon, role model, travel, women's groups

BOSS MAN: WHEN THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON STOPS CARING

April 6, 2020 by David Gillaspie

Boss man is an old term by now. Like Ram Rod, as in, “Who’s the Ram Rod of this operation,” it’s time has come and gone, like Rowdy Yates. Still, Boss man has power, whether you like it or not, whether it resonates or not. But, what is a real Boss Man? They come in […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Boss man, follow me, friend, friends, friendship, mentor, new friends, pride, teacher

BRAIN FOOD STARTS WITH GOOD HANDS

January 25, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Ask around about cooking. If you do cook, ask a new friend about it. “Do you cook, too?” The answer will tell you more about the new friend than most any question. It’s a simple question, but the answers come in complicated flavors instead of “yes” or “no.”

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: brain food, cook, cooking, Costco, food, food carts, food shopping, frozen food, harry chapin, new friends, parents, portland food carts, prepared food, simple man

FACEBOOK FRIENDS: A WHO’S WHO

June 23, 2016 by David Gillaspie

All Facebook friends are not created equal. Vanity Fair loves Facebook. Who doesn’t? Can a billion people a day be wrong? Or maybe they’re cuddling up to Mark Zuckerberg, The Man, The Face, of Facebook. Understandable if they are. He is one of the big biggies of the online world. His is the biggest face […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: aging, animal kindness, Baby Boomers, boomers, Brenda Tracy, calm lifestyle, connected world, control freaks, facebook, friends, google land, Google+, healthy living, linkedin, love facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, microsoft, military memories, new friends, online world, Social media, social network, vietnam veterans, WWII veterans

MAKING NEW FRIENDS

June 10, 2016 by David Gillaspie

Is it harder for aging baby boomers to make new friends? When the cycle of life leaves you lonely, it feels like everyone else is on the bicycle of life and you’ve got a flat. If that’s you, get moving. Walk it out. But to where? How do you make new friends? Where do you […]

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