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AFFLECK UPDATE: A MAN FOR ALL AGES, OR ALL DONE

April 13, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Get to a certain age and the realization, if it hadn’t hit yet, of a finite time to make a difference sets in. This Affleck Update serves as a reminder of who to make a difference to. In the confusion that is Hollywood it’s not enough to win the favor of the crowd […]

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Ben, It’s Me, Dave

August 5, 2013 by David Gillaspie

Searching For Ben Affleck Have you heard the story about the blogger and the movie star? The blogger, an aging Baby Boomer, gets a man-crush on Ben Affleck after seeing Argo. He writes a few posts about Ben, how much he loved Argo’s movie inside a movie idea, and how shocking the story unfolded with […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: baby boomer, Ben Affleck, blogger, BOOMER, boomerpdx, facebook, Flying Home, George Clooney, Google+, Hollywood, Matt Damon, NW Boomer, twitter, WWII in the Pacific

STORY MEDICINE AND THE CURE

February 2, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Story medicine is what you see and hear. Think of it like going out for music: Is it, “Let’s get tickets and go see Taylor Swift?” Or, “Let’s get tickets to hear Taylor Swift?” It’s both. Around here we call that, “The Deuce.”

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: army medic, blog, blogger, boomer blogger, boomers, cancer, David Gillaspie, education, football, ivy league, learning to read, MARRIAGE, medicine, medicine blog, old story, personal influence, public awareness, reading, reality orientation, sports, stories are medicine, story, story medicine, story teller, story telling, taylor swift, writer, writers, writing

BEACH LIGHTHOUSE AT WORK FOR SAFER SEAS

March 15, 2023 by David Gillaspie

A beach lighthouse is essential for ocean swimmers. It’s also important for goofy people trying to catch a wave on a boogie board surrounded by surfers. And drifting further down and further down on a current. Then there’s the power swim to shore. Or else.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: adventure, aquaman, beach lighthouse, boogie board, conditioning, crashing waves, endurance, fish, Hawaii, kids, neptune, next wave, ocean, ocean swimmers, safer seas, surfers, sushi, widow, widow's walk, wife

MAD ABOUT YOU? WHY YOU?

February 15, 2023 by David Gillaspie

If you think the world is mad about you, you’re probably right. But what is it about you that gets people worked up? Is it your car? Your hair? Your shoes? Your beard? No, nope, huh uh. It’s your sense of humor.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: attraction, Authority, Baby Boomers, Ben Affleck, BOOMER, boomers, funny, gentler, humor, kinder, mad about you, Old Boomer, prince harry, Young Boomer

DISAPPOINTED WRITER? AREN’T THEY ALL

January 12, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The disappointed writer hides their feelings in their work. If it’s not their subject, it’s their characters; if it’s not the setting, it’s the theme. The disappointed writer always falls back to their comfort zone. Instead of man vs nature, or man vs society, it’s one whiney writer vs themselves.

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LIFE RESET? WHERE TO START

December 17, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Does a life reset sound pretty good right about now? Has your fear of missing out taken over? Before you go all in on a reset, consider this: Are you who you think you are?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, blogger, boomers, life reset, mental health, mid-life, mid-life crisis, Oregon, Portland, Portland Oregon, suicide, the edge

CONSTANT COMPLAINING DONE THE RIGHT WAY

December 13, 2022 by David Gillaspie

If you hear constant complaining without end, what do you do? Tune it out? Change the channel? Or listen and learn because we all know it’s impossible to complain all the time. There’s something else going on, but what?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Army, Ben Affleck, center city, clear communications, Communication, complaining, constant complaining, leadership school, Marine, philadelphia, quiet quitting, tune out

LATE BLOOMERS CROWD THE STAGE

December 4, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Who loves late bloomers? Not the people they crowd out. It’s hard enough getting any traction and gains without someone new showing up and taking all of the attention. To make it even worse, they might be Baby Boomers.

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TENDER BAR, A PLACE EVERYONE NEEDS

October 27, 2022 by David Gillaspie

The Tender Bar is a book, a memoir, and a movie. A book and a movie, for the deuce. But it’s more than a book or a movie, it’s a destination I stopped in for a drink yesterday, but it was the wrong bar.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Ben Affleck, blogger, book, boomerpdx, coming of age, father figure, George Clooney, long island, movie, tender bar, the tender bar, writer, writers, writing