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GIRLFRIEND BREAK UP AFTERMATH WITH DIRK FERGUSON

February 8, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Girlfriend break up? It’s one way to learn how to stay married later. A bad break up then makes a better husband now. Dirk Ferguson witnessed the aftermath of a girlfriend break up that served as a guide to any break up wing man for the whole sad affair. Play Hall and […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: break up, college, college roommates, dui, emotions, girlfriend, girlfriend break up, hall and oates, police, roommates, she's gone

Men’s Poll Question: Your Wife’s Old ‘Friend’ Calls To Catch Up?

October 30, 2017 by David Gillaspie

What’s the best approach is the question of the boomerpdx Men’s Poll Question? When one of your wife’s college day boyfriends calls to catch up after a couple of decades, and she tells you about it, then what? MAN #1 I wouldn’t think the question would ever come up since my wife […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: Baby Boomers, blogger, Blogging, boomerpdx, boyfriend, caring, college, college boyfriend, dangling conversation, emotions, husband, lost love, Love, MARRIAGE, old boyfriend, old college boyfriend, relationship, sensitive, sincere, tenderness, vocabulary, wife, writer, writing

MARK ZUCKERBERG BUILDS PURPOSE ON FACEBOOK WALL

May 27, 2017 by David Gillaspie

For big life questions, Mark Zuckerberg has big answers. From his Harvard commencement address: Today I want to talk about purpose. But I’m not here to give you the standard commencement about finding your purpose. We’re millennials. We’ll try to do that instinctively. Instead, I’m here to tell you finding your purpose isn’t […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, BOOMER, college, education, facebook, facebook page, facebook wall, generation, Harvard, harvard commencement address, life, life purpose, Mark Zuckerberg, Millennial generation, millennials, purpose, sense of purpose

MILLENNIALS NEED BOOMER ‘LEAVING LESSON’

May 11, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Leaving Lesson for the younger generation? Stick around. Once upon a time solving problems was simple. If something didn’t go your way, you left. The first class for Leaving Lessons explains how it works. You’ll learn the best time to bail is not a year on a calendar, but an age. 20 – […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: adult, adult power, beer, boomers, college, history, leaving lessons, memory, millennials, northwest, olympia beer, pacific northwest, re-invent, remember, retro beer

A MAY WEDDING AND ONE LOUD, “I DO,” LATER

May 10, 2017 by David Gillaspie

A May wedding in a Fir Cathedral and still in the woods thirty one years later. Doesn’t every married couple have a theme song? They should, and it doesn’t have to be the same song forever. Just make it a song older than your marriage. And no Beatles. This ought to be the common default:

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: college, commitment, dropout, fir cathedral, husband and wife, Love, MARRIAGE, married, may wedding, Oregon, oregon forest, stand by me, theme song, wedding anniversary

ASPIRATIONAL EDUCATION GOAL CALLED THE 40-40-20 PLAN, NOT 420

April 10, 2017 by David Gillaspie

40-40-20 Plan called an Aspirational Goal, like a wish list From The Oregonian in 2012: 40 percent of the state’s adults with four-year college degrees, 40 percent with two-year degrees or the equivalent, and the remaining 20 percent with high school degrees. It would be an impressive advance, since the four-year number is now […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: 40-40-20 plan, 420, aspirational law, college, education, education system, educational opportunity, educational outcomes, educational outpost, law, oregon 40-40-20 plan, student, students fail

DOES YOUR FAMILY HATE YOU ENOUGH? GET BUSY

April 7, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Family hate means family values 0. Are you the right gender? Check early pictures to see if you’re wearing the right clothes. If you’re a guy and your baby pictures look like a girl, relax. General Douglas MacArther wore a dress and long hair as a child. It was the fashion, and it didn’t hurt […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: Army, boy scouts, college, family, family hate, girlfriend, hate, honorable discharge, kindness, military, weddings, Weight Loss, wife

LEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT2: BABY BOOMER ERA

March 24, 2017 by David Gillaspie

The baby boomer era state of mind. What is there to learn from the baby boomer era? Every passing year the nostalgia grows stronger, but that doesn’t change history. Consider the boomer time line from 1946-1964. The oldest boomers were twenty year olds in 1966. The youngest were twenty in 1984. My cohort […]

Filed Under: Buckle Up Tagged With: baby boomer, baby boomer era, BOOMER, child discipline, coddled millennials, college, college material, draft dodger, high school, high school sports, history, hydration, JFK, lbj, maturity, millennials, Nixon, nostalgia, self esteem, timeout, Vietnam

PORTLAND RENTS A LIFESTYLE, WHO PAYS THE FREIGHT

March 18, 2017 by David Gillaspie

One solution to rising Portland rents At first tiny apartments got the shit because they went up in neighborhoods with streets jammed by normal parking. Now the micro havens are a solution, a reason for a drop in the rent crisis. And those bikes? Millennials and bikes and small apartments? It happens. Add […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: American, American History, college, cooperative living, history, homeless, millennials, Portland, portland rents, propoerty tax, rising rent, tax, village

ANTICIPATION VS PARTICIPATION pt 1: LEARNING

January 3, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Don’t let anticipation ruin participation. Here’s the situation: you have a plan to do something you’ve never done before. This is when every past failure shows up saying, “Who do you think you are?” Past success whispers, “You’re ready for this.” Of course we always listen to the reasonable voice, either one. No matter […]

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: anticipation, Bill Gates, college, college degree, diploma, dropout, education, flunk out, participation, quitter

GIRLFRIEND BREAK UP AFTERMATH WITH DIRK FERGUSON

Men’s Poll Question: Your Wife’s Old ‘Friend’ Calls To Catch Up?

MARK ZUCKERBERG BUILDS PURPOSE ON FACEBOOK WALL

MILLENNIALS NEED BOOMER ‘LEAVING LESSON’

A MAY WEDDING AND ONE LOUD, “I DO,” LATER

ASPIRATIONAL EDUCATION GOAL CALLED THE 40-40-20 PLAN, NOT 420

DOES YOUR FAMILY HATE YOU ENOUGH? GET BUSY

LEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT2: BABY BOOMER ERA

PORTLAND RENTS A LIFESTYLE, WHO PAYS THE FREIGHT

ANTICIPATION VS PARTICIPATION pt 1: LEARNING

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