writing Archives • Page 2 of 69 • BOOMERPDX

page contents Google

COUNTING YEARS, ADDING TIME

October 17, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

Counting years, birthdays, anniversaries, is easy math even for non-math people. One day you’re logging miles and running races and getting a new t-shirt. The world is fresh and waiting for what you have to offer so show up and do your best. Then the race changes, but the task is the same: show up […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: adding years, Baby Boomer blogger, birde, boomerpdx, canine companion, counting time, dog, education, groom, happiness machine, history, learning, marking time, Portland Oregon, Social media, wedding picture, writer, writers, writing

CONNECTING DOTS FOR A BIGGER PICTURE

October 16, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

When freedom is just through those two doors you’d better start connecting dots for a plan to get there. That’s if you want to go, if you want to leave the cozy warmth of where you are. Cozy warmth where you are? Are you cozy? Of course you are, and so is everyone you know. […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, baby boomer, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, cheater, cheating, connecting dots, cozy warmth, education, history, learning, liar, life, Love, lying, Portland Oregon, robber, Social media, thief, twitter, writer, writers, writing

NICE THINGS. WHY NOT US?

October 15, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

If you want nice things, and who doesn’t, keep a sharp eye out on what’s around you. An evening stroll under the crescent moon? If that’s not nice, I don’t know what is. For this you don’t haveto go to Paris, or Portland, but you do have to go outside. Can you do it? I […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, American, americans, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, building codes, china, democracy, facebook, fierce debate, history, husband material, learning, nice things, Peace, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon, potential, prosperity, retreat, Social media, tranquility, travel, twitter, why not, writer, writers, writing

WIFE WALKING FOR HEALTH AND FITNESS

October 14, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

I see couples walking, wife walking, the woman in front, the man a few steps back. You can tell it’s wife walking when the woman goes into a shop and the man finds a seat outside and stares at his phone. My wife and I walked past two places that looked interesting, though not to […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomer blogger, Baby Boomers, boomerpdx, booze, education, family, fitness, fitness influencers, fitness researchers, health, history, influencers, learning, Love, MARRIAGE, over eating, Portland Oregon, Social media, twitter, wife, writer, writers, writing

BRAVE BLOGGER? HOW BRAVE

October 13, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

It’s hard to explain bravery, as in a brave blogger, to a little girl when you scream like a little girl at the same things they scream about. Mouse? EEEEEK. Rat? EEEEEEEEK. Spider? Run for it. It started out so normal.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomer blogger, boomerpdx, boomers, brave, brave blogger, bravery, education, facebook, family, granddad, grandkids, history, hunters, learning, little girl, Portland Oregon, Social media, spider, spiders, travel, writer, writers, writing

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?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomer blogger, bird, bird watching, birds, blue heron, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, Ducks, education, egret, empathy, facebook, history, learning, millennials, nature, nurse, Oregon, Oregon Ducks, Portland Oregon, story, Tigard, travel, win win, writer, writers, writing

FISHING FAILURE = TRY AGAIN

October 10, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

What makes for a fishing failure? Bad weather, wrong bait, no bites. If that happens too many times, what do you do? You want some salmon, you live in Oregon, it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomer blogger, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, canned salmon, education, fish, fishing, fishing failure, frozen salmon, history, learning, North Bend, Oregon, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon, sea, smoked salmon, Social media, spirit fish, try again, twitter, writer, writers, writing

FAILING FUN = TRY AGAIN

October 9, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

No one sets a course for failing fun. But who’s kidding who. Those who never fail haven’t tried hard enough. But if you keep track of such things, failing fun happens every day. Is it really fun, though?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomer blogger, boomerpdx, education, failing fun, family, history, kids, knowledge, learning, millennials, Portland Oregon, refine, Social media, sordid secrets, style, try again, twitter, vocabulary, writer, writer work, writers, writing

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 […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: army blogger, BITTER FEELINGS, blog, blogger, Blogging, blue collar, blue collar blogger, boomer blogger, daddy blogger, data blogger, education, facebook, failed blog, failed blogger, failed post, history, learning, Social media, speedo, sponsor, story, twitter, ultimate failure, writer, writers, writing

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 […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomer blogger, Boomer Nostalgia, education, facebook, fail, failed, failed movies, failed presidents, failure, history, learning, millennials, nostalgia, Portland Oregon, real life, Social media, story, time travel, travel, twitter, writer, writers, writing