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ON VETERANS DAY 2024

November 11, 2024 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

Veterans Day is for the old folks who remember their youth and those who were young with them. They remember the young people who didn’t have the chance to get old. My Dad got a chance to get old. He out-lived his Dad, just like I’m out-living him.

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OPB PEOPLE IN BEAVERTON’S RESER

September 27, 2024 by David Gillaspie

OPB people gathered Thursday night for a radio show at The Reser in Beaverton. Maybe it’s the same crowd for every Live Wire show, but I don’t know. I’ve been to one other on Portland’s Eastside and both had one thing in common: Old people who know how to have a laugh.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: audience, beaverton, drama, Luke burbank, old, old enough, old people, OPB, opb people, Portland Oregon, reser, the Reser

PERMANENT BUILDINGS FOR THE FUTURE

August 30, 2024 by David Gillaspie

I look for permanent buildings the older I get. It’s always a treat. I’m older than the town I live in, older than the first house I owned, older than where I live mow. Maybe I’m the permanent building? Naw. Maybe you?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blogger, boomers, buildings, downtown Portland, education, Fox Theater, fox tower, millennials, Oregon, park avenue west, permanent, permanent buildings, Portland, Portland Oregon, travel, writer, writing

PORTLAND HISTORY COMEBACK JUST IN TIME

July 14, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Portland history used to be easy. Two old guys flipped a coin in a clearing and here we are living happily ever after. That’s my story, but I’m not sticking to it when I tell the Portland story.

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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.

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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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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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HARD LOVE DADDY ON A HEALTH KICK

April 16, 2024 by David Gillaspie

I saw hard love work on my Dad after he got his heart fixed. No smoking for the old chimney. The doc said it, the family said it, the friends said it. You’d say it too.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, blogger, boomerpdx, caregiving skills, coma, encouragement, family, father, fitness, hard love, health, health kick, ill health, Love, loved one, loved ones, MARRIAGE, medical community, millennials, no smoking, official coma, Oregon, Portland Oregon, smoker, son, story, trend, wife, writers, writing, WWII

OVERTIME RULES: ASK T-REX ALL ABOUT IT

March 18, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Overtime rules are simple: Come at me bro. It’s the same with normal time: Let’s go T. That’s T for T-Rex. The difference is that time is up for that big-headed beast. How about you? Are you feeling the same? Is your time up, too? Keep reading for hints it’s not.

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BLOGGER’S ROLE? IT DEPENDS ON . . . ?

March 5, 2024 by David Gillaspie

The blogger’s role depends on context. And money. If someone offered you $25,000 per post, and they give suggestions? Come on, you’d listen, I’d listen. Who wouldn’t listen? But who would start writing?

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