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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

FAIR FIGHT FOR DIFFICULT BABY BOOMER TIMES

September 24, 2022 by David Gillaspie

A fair fight isn’t a real fight. If you’re in a fight you don’t want, what has fighting fair got to do with it? The goal of a fight you don’t want is to end it as fast as you can. This goal applies to marriage, jobs, kids, and home repair. Make it personal.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, blogger, BOOMER, boomerpdx, boomers, compliments, fair, fair fight, fight, gifts, heal, healing, not worthy, Oregon, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, real fight, worthy

BANNED BOOKS ON BANNED BOOK WEEK?

September 19, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Banned books sounds like a term from the Middle Ages, or the Spanish Inquisition where you might pay with your life if the wrong book was found on your property. Book bans are nothing new, and don’t last, but in our hyper-alert social medial world that makes it feel like the world is collapsing every […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: 82nd Avenue, author, banned blog, banned blogger, banned book, banned books, blog, blog money, blog posts, blogger, book ban, boomerpdx, celebrity status, division street, get paid, money, Oregon, Portland, Portland Oregon, urban influencer, work, writer, writing, written

OREGON BEAUTY FROM EVERY DIRECTION

September 18, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Oregon beauty starts with a walk out my front door. This is the view if I find the right spot, which I always do. (It’s not a mystery.) I think it would be a better without the trees, without the house, but that’s not how things work. That’s not how change happens, by wishing things […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: mary's club, Mt. Hood, Oregon, oregon beauty, Portland, Portland beaches, Portland lap, portland moment, Portland Oregon, portland picture, Portland river, Portland volcanoes, terwilliger curves

BLOG WRITER EXPLAINS TRAFFIC BUMP

September 16, 2022 by David Gillaspie

This blog writer never stops to ask, ‘Why bother,’ when it comes to writing anything. Whether I draw one reader in, or four thousand, the work is the same: Find something worth writing about, then do it in a way worth reading. Some days come in hot.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: 82nd Avenue, blog, blog traffic, blog writer, blogger, bloggers, boomerpdx, news break, Oregon, Portland, Portland Oregon, readers, wedding, writers

DREAM CATCHER HOLDS TIGHT

September 15, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Hang on to the good stuff as long as you can Picture your dream catcher self at a SoCal party with your wife’s high school friends. It’s all good in a Santa Monica apartment complex, except for the pet. Not a kitty, not a puppy, not a dream catcher, but a huge freaking snake.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: american promise, choice, Damian Lillard, dream catcher, freedom, NBA, Oregon, oregon historical society, Oregon History, Portland, Portland Oregon, Portland Trail Blazers, snake

GRADUATING DOGS ARE EDUCATIONAL

September 13, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Graduating dogs from obedience training is a win/win for everyone. A well mannered dog is a joy for everyone. Well mannered dog owners take that joy and run. So should you.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, blogger, BOOMER, boomerpdx, boomers, care, dog training, dogs, feeding, obedience training, Oregon, pet responsibility, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon

OREGON TREES DAY AND NIGHT

September 13, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Oregon, oregon trees, trees

OREGON WEED: STATE REVIEW

September 12, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Oregon weed is sold legally throughout the state. Does that sound right to baby boomers? A comfort? Yes, weed is legally sold in Oregon, with a load of stores in Portland, Oregon.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, boomerpdx, cancer, cancer patient, Center For Disease Control, drug addiction, harvard health, legal weed, marijuana, medical marijuana, medicine, opioids., Oregon, Oregon Coast, oregon weed, oxy, pain, pain control, pain management, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon, surgery, weed

OREGON CASCADES FROM THE ROAD

September 12, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Oregon, OREGON cascades