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ALONE AGAIN, NATURALLY OR UNNATURALLY

November 26, 2022 by David Gillaspie

If you find yourself alone again, don’t despair. The young people will find others and wistfully remember their alone days. The elderly treasure their memories of an active, busy, life. At least that’s how it’s supposed to work. What gets in the way? Social media?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: alone, alone again, Baby Boomers, blogger, blogging habit, boomerpdx, boomers, facebook, first draft, keywords, millennials, re-writing, reading, scholar, shattered, Social media, trends, twitter, writing, young people, your people

PORTLAND HATERS EXPLAIN THEMSELVES

November 16, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Portland haters on twitter get to the point in roundabout ways: Real time, not the other time? That’s not a good start.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blogger, boomerpdx, Columbia, dream girl, facebook, hate, haters, nw 23rd, Oregon, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, portland hate, portland haters, portland love, Portland Oregon, portland weird, REI, twitter, west hills, young professionals

VOTE BLUE FOR A BETTER YOU, MILLENNIALS

October 31, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Vote Blue ‘for a chance’ to be a better you is more like it. “But what’s a better me, BoomerPdx?” Sure, go ahead and ask a blogger that question and don’t be too surprised at the answer. Is there a right answer?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, better you, blogger, blogger advice, BOOMER, boomerpdx, boomers, data harvesting, facebook, influencer, millennial voters, millennials, Oregon, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon, tweets, twitter, vote american, vote blue, vote democrat

RECOMMENDED READING: T.C. BOYLE’S ‘GOING DOWN’

October 29, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Recommended reading for writers? Common advice is to read everything, whatever that means. Do I read everything? Everything in a bookstore, or library? No, I read for inspiration, I read for cause, and my cause is writing.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blogger, book, books, boomerpdx, common advice, education, experienced teacher, inspire, Kilgore trout, Kurt Vonnegut, read everything, reading, reading books, recommended reading, TC Boyle, teacher, twitter, writer, writers, writing

AMAZON PRIME DELIVERING MORE THAN ORDERED?

September 2, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Amazon Prime ruled the road during a recent outing. It wasn’t every car, but enough to make me wonder: ‘Are these electric vans? Why aren’t they electric vans?’ I must have wondered aloud because my wife said, “This is a lot of vans. What’s going on. You should blog this.” So . . .

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Amazon, amazon prime, auto makers, baby boomer, billionaire, blogger, BOOMER, boomerpdx, electric vehicles, elon musk, environment, Jeff Bezos, meat loaf, Portland, RIVIAN, tesla, twitter

TIMING MATTERS, AND NOW IT’S HIP TIME

August 4, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Timing matters when it comes to personal health Don’t wait too long, or jump too early, just be on time. Call it good luck, serendipity, or negligence, but you’ll know when the time is right to act. But not everyone is on the clock.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: boomerpdx, free, hip replacement, hip surgery, human kindness, medical advice, online darkness, online stranger, pain, pain management, pain tolerance, personal health, recovery, timing, timing matters, twitter

TEN HAMMERS? THINGS IN THE HOUSE WHEN ONE IS ENOUGH

June 23, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Ten hammers ought to be enough? Who has ten hammers? Me. And they’re all looking for a nail.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, blogger, boomers, hoarder, hoarders, hoarding, hoarding disorder, Oregon, pillows, stress, tape measures, tea towels, ten hammers, tools, trauma, twitter

WAR ORIGINS: WWII ON TWITTER

June 14, 2022 by David Gillaspie

War origins bring out the experts on Twitter. With warnings on what to pay attention to, what to ignore. It wasn’t a bad take, just wrong.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: American History, germany, great white fleet, twitter, war origins, world history, wwi, WWII

MUSK MANDATE RALLY CALL

April 26, 2022 by David Gillaspie

With a Musk Mandate coming maybe it’s a good idea to know more about Elon Musk, THE MAN. A more responsible blogger might dig into biography, astrology, and significant ontology. Or Wikipedia. Come on. The bio reads a little different, but what would you expect.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: ;public school, Andrew Carnegie, baby boomer, Baby Boomers, curiosity class, curious, elon musk, identity crisis, libraries, media manipulation, musk, musk foundation, musk mandate, my research, Oregon, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon, second coming, shaping information, twitter

DISCOMFORT LEVEL FOR NOISE, WATER, AND ELON MUSK

April 14, 2022 by David Gillaspie

I set my discomfort level running a marathon in new insoles. It was my only marathon. Training rules say don’t run in new shoes, not insoles. By five miles my feet were on fire. I ran past it. I squeezed sponge water down my neck at an eight mile water station. It drained down my […]

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