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FRIENDLY OWLS IN THE FOREST DARK

November 15, 2024 by David Gillaspie

I’ve heard owls hoot and they sounded like friendly owls. But I’ve never seen one in the wild. Until yesterday.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: civilized, dark forest, duniway track, feathered friend, forest, forest bath, Forest Park, friendly owls, macleay park, owls, Portland, running, running club, suburban wildlife, trails, under armor, wilderness, woods

HOW TO QUIT CARING AND MOVE ON

July 10, 2024 by David Gillaspie

If you quit caring about someone or something, how do you explain it to yourself, let alone anyone else? You can’t just quit and leave it at that. You need to explain it all in painful detail. Or maybe that’s just me.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: bad character, biden, blog, blogger, bob packwood, boomerpdx, campaign fraud, charity fraud, education fraud, endurance, lifting, move on, movie star, muckraking, nasty things, Olympics, quit, quit caring, quitter, quitting, running, slow quitting, stronger, too weak, weak, writer, writing

EXERCISING RIGHTS FOR BETTER LIVING

June 12, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Exercising rights are a mental thing; also a physical thing. The mental part is realizing the benefits of the physical thing. How often has someone doubted the benefits of either? When they do cast doubt, they do it from a couch eating bonbons.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: athletes, athletic training, exercise, exercise habit, exercising, exercising rights, expectations, gains, getting strong, goals, kids, lifting, losing weight, married, mental, over achieving, Paris olympics, physical, power lifters, running, wife, workout, wrestled

SETTLED RULES = LAW OF THE LAND

March 31, 2024 by David Gillaspie

When settled rules are ignored they get angry. Common courtesy wants to fight. Good manners want a go in the octagon. Eventually things calm down in what I understand is called ‘normalized’, as in: The New Normal.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blue jeans, cancer cells, coal fired power, college degree, common courtesy, democracy, educated people, good manners, law of the land, laws, marathon, modern world, national champion, new normal, normal, rules, running, scoreboard, settled rules, shared world, small town, social body, sports, wife

FOR OLDER PEOPLE: WHAT’S IT LIKE?

March 4, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Who doesn’t like a question directed to ‘older people?’ This was the question from twitter: I wonder what it’s like for the older people now, who were born in the previous millennium. How can people born in 1999 be old? Easy.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: achievements, aging, blog, blogger, Blogging, boomerpdx, education, high school, informed decision, junior high, marathon, memory, military, North Bend, older, older people, oregonians, popular, remember, running, seaside marathon, selfish, selfish interests, service, the army, twitter, wife, write, writer, writers, writing

SELF DEFENSE EMAIL WITH TACTICAL DEALS

September 26, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Self defense: a response to threat? Or a response to advertised threat? You are minding your own business deleting pushed email day after day from the same sources. Then it hits:

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: AR15, brain, dog chain, fighting knife, gun, lifestyle, running, self defense, tactical, tactical keyboard, threat, weapons

TIME TELLS ON ALL OF US

November 10, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Time tells, so why not make it good story? “Go to sleep for twenty years and wake up and tell everyone how great you could have been.” That’s a line from The Tender Bar. It’s a good line, maybe the best in the movie.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, blogger, BOOMER, boomerpdx, boomers, face time, learning, old time, running, skills, tender bar, time, time tells

OLYMPIC SPORTS EVENTS THAT HAVE CHANGED THE MOST?

February 10, 2022 by David Gillaspie

The original Olympics had two sports events: Running and Wrestling. The funny part states that if you couldn’t wrestle, you ran, had to run, or the wresters would catch you. Every sport since has fit somewhere between wrestling and running. At least that’s the theory.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Dick Fosbury, Fosbury flop, high jump, Olympics, Oregon State, running, sports, sports events, wrestling

YOUR TRIBE: HAVE YOU FOUND IT, OR STILL LOOKING

May 20, 2021 by David Gillaspie

Your tribe is waiting and it’s accepting memberships, if that’s the sort of tribe that appeals to you. Or maybe you’re more of a “Membership? We don’t need no stinking membership” sort of person. Either way, the yearning for connection, human connections, isn’t going away. But which tribe is your tribe? A few clues:

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: connection, connections, goals, human connections, married, role model, running, sports, tribe, tribe goal, wife, writers, your tribe

RUNNING MAN SETS RECORD STRAIGHT AT ROW RIVER

April 15, 2021 by David Gillaspie

The running man in question is Nicholas Thompson. Maybe you’ve heard of him, or someone like him. Probably not, though. He’s just another runner in a running world full of speed. Oh, he just set the American record for a 50K ultra. Now you’ve heard of him. But there’s so much more, which fits in […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: competitive athletes, father, good dad, Oregon, row river, running, running man, twitter, wrestling, writer