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ROSE GARDEN FLOWER GIRL TEST

June 25, 2023 by David Gillaspie

When the rose garden calls how do you answer? There’s only one answer when it includes a birthday for a flower girl. And with a flower girl. With four flower girls? It started two weeks ago.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: birthday, candy, dogs, family, flower girl, flowers, gifts, happy, husband, kids, Oregon, parking goddess, Portland, Portland Oregon, Portland Rose Garden, Rose Garden, wife

PORTLAND SUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

June 23, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The Portland summer is why people move to Oregon. It’s also why people move away. Why? Because it doesn’t last long enough. That wasn’t the case yesterday at Portland Center Stage.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blogger, boomerpdx, burnside, downtown Portland, live theater, Oregon, Portland, portland center stage, Portland Oregon, portland summer, Shakespeare, west slope

HOMETOWN WRITERS MISS THE BOAT?

June 22, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Hometown writers miss the boat when they think everything’s been said about where they grew up. Then, to save their careers the turn their focus to their hometown. More like they use a sense of home to lure readers in. Like Thomas Wolfe.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Army, hometown, hometown writers, Ken Kesey, novels, Oregon, Oregon setting, oregon story, Portland, sports, Thomas Wolfe, writers

RESOLVE PROBLEMS BEFORE ADDING MORE

June 16, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Before taking advice on resolving problems look hard at who is offering advice.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: advice, aging, Baby Boomers, baggage, botox, calm down, Oregon, personal baggage, Portland, problem, problems, resolution, resolve, resolve problems

LEARNING HOW THINGS WORK? FIRST LEARN WORDS

June 15, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Learning how to do anything takes a special effort when you already know everything. Then you find out what you’ve learned is wrong and your time and energy feels wasted? After that it’s pointing fingers, assigning blame. Or, there’s another way to justify the time and energy to learn how things work. Call it a […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: accusations, bad luck, breaking up, cursing, family, family life, free money, gambled, girlfriend, learn, learning, learning how, Oregon, parents, Portland, shit talk, shit talked, shit talker, special effort, starting out, starting over, Universal, wife, words

ARMY BIRTHDAY? HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ARMY

June 14, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The Army birthday is for the oldest branch of military service in America. But you knew this? I didn’t. And I was in the Army.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Army, army birthday, army war college, happy birthday, military, North Bend, North Bend High School, Oregon, Portland, verbal abuse, volunteer

LIFE GOALS: BOOMERS FROM 58 TO 68

June 12, 2023 by David Gillaspie

My life goals are simple. Like Marcus Aurelius, I believe the object of life is very clear: Stay off the lunatic fringe. And?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: beer, boomers, Divorce, elite singles, family, gen x, goals, good man, gray divorce, kids, life goals, Marcus Aurelius, married, millennials, mortality, Oregon, our time, oxy, Portland, sex, silver singles, viagra, weed, wife

ROSE FESTIVAL DONE RIGHT IN PORTLAND? RAMBLE ON

June 11, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Rose Festival week for Portland Oregon baby boomers when we were single? It was good, real good. We didn’t have cars back then and it didn’t matter since we lived so close to the parade route through Portland. Yesterday was a throwback to those days of old in New Portland. What’s the biggest difference between […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, blogger, BOOMER, boomerpdx, boomers, crawl portland, new portland, Oregon, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon, portland rose festival, Portland Rose Festival Parade, rose festival, Rose Garden, Washington Park, willamette week

PORTLAND SURVEY ASKS: SO WHAT?

June 7, 2023 by David Gillaspie

This Portland survey asks one question: Who is moving to Portland? More important, who is staying? People have opinions, none very favorable. I’m here to work on it.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: beer, blog post, blogger, Bridge City, coffee, drugs, facbook, homeless, old portland, Oregon, Portland, portland future, portland history, Portland Oregon, portland survey, reinventing portland, survey, twitter

GOOD READERS 2023 TOP TEN POSTS, SO FAR

May 27, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Good readers decide what makes the Top 10 on boomerpdx. But are they actual readers or casual scrollers seeking something based on a headline? Which are you? What makes you stop and stick around on any blog? Let’s do a test beginning with a question:

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: alpha male, attention, blogger, Blogging, boomerpdx, cold showers, decency, fitness, gold, good readers, goodness, Love, lucrative blogging, money, observations, Oregon, parenting, Portland, Portland Oregon, readers, SEO, seo wizards, solid gold, success, successful blogging, top ten, vanity blog, witty