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BLOG CONTENT OR JUST A NORMAL EVENT

October 27, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

Blog content goes one way or another? Noooo. It’s goes wherever it goes and takes you, and the writer, which is me, along. Things don’t always match up the way imagined, like writing a post of great importance that gets five hits. What was it lacking?

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CAUTIOUS BABY BOOMER BLOGGER VISION

October 26, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

As a cautious baby boomer blogger harvesting stories and insights for more than four thousand (4031) blog posts running seven hundred and fifty words each, on average, comes to more than three million words. Divide that by 90,000, the sweet spot number of words in a novel, and if I were a novelist I’d have […]

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CITY LIFE SHARING: PORTLAND OREGON

October 25, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

City life sharing means getting the family together one way or another for a public event. In a hotel ballroom. For the occasion I wore my ballroom camel hair coat handed down from my father in-law, my bolo tie from Grandpa Marshall, a Columbia vest, and my whitest white shirt over my extra-white t-shirt. I […]

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HOW TO VOTE CORRECTLY IN 2026 FOR MILLENNIALS

October 24, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

If millennials vote correctly in 2026, their voice will be heard since they replaced baby boomers as the largest generation currently crowding everyone younger. Speaking for all boomers, I offer apologies to Gen Z, Alpha, and Beta. And this to the millennials: your welcome. Now that they’re older they’ve discovered yearnings for what they’ve taken […]

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PDX WOOD A WELCOME SIGHT

October 21, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

Call it PDX wood, Portland wood, Oregon wood. Or call it what it is, Douglas Fir from the Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua. And call it a nice wall. It’s nice in a way, but unfinished looking. Your call:

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CASUAL BIRD WATCHING WITH BABY DUCK

October 11, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

Casual bird watching is just a short drive away to the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge. You never know what you’ll see, like this Egret. A special egret. Why special? It has friends. An egret and a blue heron together?

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FAILED BLOG DIFFERENT THAN A FAILED MOVIE

October 8, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

BoomerPdx is a failed blog. (Does that make me a failed blogger? Uh oh) After a Portland run to the art museum I came home and reviewed the evening. You know what they say about writers? We get to live things twice: Once in real life, once on the page. Except I got sidetracked on […]

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FAILED MOVIES FIND FACEBOOK LIFE

October 7, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

How many times on a Facebook scroll do you find posts on failed movies, usually movies I haven’t seen to know if they failed, or how they failed, with a caption like: “Ignored and pulled from screens just after release has aged like fine wine.” Or, “while considered a failure on it’s first release it […]

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SAM QUINONES ON IMPORTANT WRITING

October 5, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

What’s better than a writer hyping important writing, the importance of writing, and at the same time telling us about their favorite writing book from a dead writer? If that’s not writing advice, I don’t know what is. Good writing advice is hard to come by. Will it make you a better writer, you ask? […]

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PORTLAND NARRATION WITH MEL BROWN AT THE JACK LONDON

October 3, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

Yesterday I wrote a post about two ladies walking around Portland like they knew where they were going. They did know where they were going, but there was a hitch. They weren’t alone. The Heart of Portland followed along.

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