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EXQUISITE CREATURES, OR JUST MY FAMILY

January 25, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Exquisite Creatures is in the final days of its second run at OMSI. Christopher Marley’s nature collection occupies two floors. In one word, it’s an incredible experience made more so by who I saw it with: Wife, kid, daughter in-law, and a four year old. But not just any four year old, which I’ll get […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: bugs, Christopher Marley, EXQUISITE CREATURES, family, freeze dried, kids, museum show, omni, Oregon, Portland, Portland Oregon, snakes, time together

HEALING POWER OF WRITING (feeling better yet?)

January 6, 2025 by David Gillaspie

healing power

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, boomers, critique group, english department, family, healing, healing effect, healing power, history, Love, MARRIAGE, Oregon, oregon work, Portland, portland library, Portland State, power, sitting quietly, wife, WILLAMETTE WRITERS, writer, writers, writing

INVESTING TIME INCLUDES RISK OF LOSS

January 3, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Investing time for a nice walk on the beach? Yes. Always a good deal. Firm sand, dry weather, the waves speaking their language. And you. What could be better?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: beach walk, devils punch bowl, flexibility, investing, investing time, kids, loss, mental sharpness, newport, Oregon, otter crest, strength, swim, time, walk, walking coach, waves

BUCKEYE BEACH FOR THE WIN

January 2, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Buckeye Beach is for winners. After THE Ohio State football team finished their Rosebowl Game they need a little rest. It was a big win for the blue blood Buckeyes and they had to be thirsty. All Oregon beaches get a name change in their honor. It’s an honor with cautions. Anyone facing the Ohio […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: beach, buckeye, buckeye beach, cardale jones, caution, CHIP KELLY, college football, dan lanning, football, Ohio state, Ohio State Buckeyes, Oregon, Oregon Beaches, Oregon Ducks, rest, Rose Bowl, rosebowl game, thirsty, will Howard

HOLDING ON WITH INTENT

January 1, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Holding on comes with an important question: Are you holding on to something? Or, is something gripping you?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: grip, hang on, healthy, holding on, intent, newport, newport oregon, ocean, Oregon, strain

MAJESTIC OREGON COAST REVIEW

December 30, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Majestic Oregon shows up in the mountains, the valleys, and the coast. When you call Oregon majestic, and you’ve been to the mountains and valleys, go to the coast. It’s called majestic for a reason: You can’t call it warm and welcoming, at least not in the winter.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blog, friends, gift, looks pretty, majestic, majestic oregon, missing, nice people, Oregon, oregon friends, writer, writing

THE LONG ROAD OF FAMILY LIFE

December 21, 2024 by David Gillaspie

The long road of family life in the good old days started with moms and dads in the lead. Whether they loved each other like soul mates, or hated each other like oceans do shorelines, they stayed married. I’m not looking at statistical data when I say they stayed married, it’s just that I don’t […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Coos Bay, Divorce, divorced parents, family, family life, long road, married, North Bend, old days, old rivals, Oregon, Oregon Trail, parents, rival, rivalries, rivalry, road visions, senior citizen, tualatin, visions, younger people

TRAUMA TELEVISION: NFL vs SVU

December 20, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Trauma television: scenes where you look away. The NFL is a hard watch at the beginning of the season because we forget how violent it is. Then we get up to spreed. When injuries happen it’s, “Well that’s football.”

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: big game, college football, cte, entertainment, football, frozen tundra, history, longevity, national football league, Neil Lomax, next season, NFL, Oregon, Oregon Ducks, special victims unit, SVU, television, television networks, trauma, trauma television, win

PORTLAND PARK BLOCKS IN DECEMBER WITH DOG

December 12, 2024 by David Gillaspie

The Portland Park Blocks, the south side, deserves a good look this time of year. Call it a learning moment, my dog did. Who’s a good girl. We started at Portland State University to see what the youths were up to.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: art, education, education vibe, educational, good girl, history, learning, learning moment, my dog, OHS, Oregon, Oregon History, PAM, park blocks, Portland, Portland Art Museum, Portland Oregon, Portland Park Blocks, Portland stater university, student union, vibe

OREGON ALLERGIES BAD AT #1

December 8, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Oregon allergies flare up every Saturday of the college football season. Panelists and podcasters and prognosticators all search the championship landscape of games to find the most important one. Many agreed it would be Georgia v Texas for the SEC title. Or SMU v Clemson for the ACC Allergies choked them out before they could […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: allergies, allergy, big 10 championship, big-10, championship, college football ball, dan banning, Georgia, illness, odds makers, Oregon, Oregon duck football, Oregon Ducks, penn state, practice, sports betting, Tennessee