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UTIME WITH A U-TURN

August 18, 2024 by David Gillaspie

You know what cuts into my uTime? Answering eMails on my iPhone. There’re are more cuts, and that’s expected, but how can you tell when you achieve full and complete uTime? What are the signals for the reaching the whole meTime?

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WEIRD PEOPLE? LIKE WHO

July 30, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Weird people you know invite you over for a backyard barbecue. That’s the scene. What could go wrong? They pull this out: Hearts and Gizzards. Let the grilling begin.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: ambition, baby boomer, Baby Boomer blogger, bad idea, BOOMER, boomers, college, Dr. John McLoughlin, education, good idea, history, IDEA, Oregon, weird, weird ambition, weird people, weirdo, wife, WWII

EMPATHY FEELINGS? LET ‘EM OUT

July 25, 2024 by David Gillaspie

The first time I wrote out ’empathy feelings’, spell check went to ’empty feelings.’ Empty feelings might be a better key word, just not the one I’m looking for. But I got an empty feeling scrolling through twitter, through yahoo news, and every other post was red hat related. Honest blogger that I am, it […]

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WHAT MAKES A GREAT BURGER?

July 8, 2024 by David Gillaspie

A great burger is a matter of timing. If you haven’t eaten all day anything would be great. That last thing you ate was a little off so you’ve been looking forward to the next meal. This burger fought through adversity to land on greatness.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: adversity, barbecue, beer, blues, blues fest, blues festival, decision making, food, food poisoning, great burger, hamburger, hamburger buns, meat, meat patties, meat patty, memory, Oregon, Portland, Portland Oregon, walking beer

MAKING TIME TO SHARE TIME

July 7, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Making time for this, for that, but we still run out of time. On the run? From a Beaverton Farmers Market morning to a Waterfront Blues Festival evening, all the different faces turned into a blur. Some faces, not all.

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BLUE PORTLAND IN STAGES

July 6, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Blue Portland is like a blues band. You don’t start at the main stage in the Waterfront Blues Festival. You don’t always have a limousine ready to jump into after playing your set. That’s Portland carrying its guitar in a gunnysack, headed on down to the railroad tracks.

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DOWNTOWN PORTLAND OREGON ON A FAMILY SATURDAY NIGHT

June 23, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Traveling to downtown Portland for a visit, for a look-around? But you’ve seen the news, the tents, the drugs, the crime. So have I. It’s a red flag, but not this time. We took a chance to claim, or reclaim, the Rose City as our own.

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HOME STRETCH FROM LONDON TO PORTLAND

June 7, 2024 by David Gillaspie

The home stretch is the payoff for travelers. Under budget, on time, no lost passports or ID? Check. Spend the last night in London relaxing and resting up for the nine hour flight in the morning? Wouldn’t that make sense? Resting up to sit for nine hours? Or . . .

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LAST ROOM AT THE END OF THE LINE

June 3, 2024 by David Gillaspie

The last room of a six stop roadie through England is the most expensive per square foot. It’s an impressive number due to the square feet. The smallest of the six, it’s on Bayswater, a half a block from the Notting Hill Gate into Hyde Park. Queen-sized bed in a queen-size bed slot tight enough […]

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FRAGILE MEN CLUB? YOU’RE ALREADY SIGNED UP

April 24, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Fragile men had no place in Western American history stories about the savage frontier and cruel hardships. Nor in the early industrialization with mighty oil, steel, and railroad barons casting their deepening shadows across the land. Writers found other virtues to extoll other than common frailties. The western frontier needed stories of valor and sacrifice […]

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