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BOOMER BAR SETS HIGH STANDARDS

February 10, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Who set the baby boomer bar for making a better world for our children? Our parents, our grandparents, our teachers, and coaches? If that’s your guess, it’s a good one. But who set it so high; why did they do that to us?

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NOW WHAT? GREEN FATIGUE POWER

January 2, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Another year? Now what? I gave the most important Christmas present this year, one that will resonate in eternity, or maybe through January. My two girls got their letterman jacket, their superhero cape, their cloak of invincibility. I broke out the ironing board and starch and scissors and applied them all to this game changer.

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IMPORTANT PEOPLE NEED MORE IMPORTANCE

December 26, 2023 by David Gillaspie

You know the important people in your life. How? Because they’re important to you. And you know why they’re important. Maybe you even tell them they are the important people in your life. But maybe you don’t, then what? They’ll tell you.

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HISTORY WORK NEVER ENDS FOR THE CURIOUS

December 8, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Doing history work where you live is the only way to get to your happy place. Or at least you’ll know where you are. The Oregon Historical Society’s downtown Portland history museum is just the place. But first ask yourself, “Am I curious?” If you read boomerpdx regularly, you pass the curious test. Take this […]

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RED FLAG, OR JUST BEING AN ADULT?

December 4, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Who is quick to pull a red flag as often as possible? The same people who whine the loudest when they get flagged. If that’s you, let’s talk about flagmanship, red flagmanship.

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SPORTS FAN REVIEW: IN THE BEGINNING

December 1, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Sports fan knows one thing: Rivalry. Without rivalry, sporting events resemble theater without the curtains. With rivalry we feel something deeper, way deeper, way down there. If you come from a certain time and place the only rivals that mattered were the Marshfield High School Pirates. But, everyone grows up. Right?

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VOTING AGE FIRST PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

November 30, 2023 by David Gillaspie

I came of voting age just in time to vote for President Carter. Why not have a naval academy graduate in the White House? I was eighteen in 1974, not an election year. That was the year Gerald Ford pardoned former president Nixon.

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ATTENTION ECONOMY PAID IN EXPOSURE . . . TO WHAT

November 19, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The attention economy is an agreement between those seeking, and needing attention, and those who accommodate them. But what about the end-user, the audience, you know, The People I like to call ‘the rest of us?’ We still matter since the ‘I’m paying attention’ economy is based on time, not money. No money for those […]

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MILLION VETERANS PROGRAM, MVP

November 17, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The VA sent out a mailer for joining the Million Veterans Program. The MVP is asking veterans to join 940,000 others to help improve health care for veterans. As a veteran of the Gerald Ford Army, the VA sent the request to my address. That alone shows efficient dexterity in such a huge agency. To […]

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CHANGING SEASONS = CHANGING CLIMATE?

September 21, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Changing seasons were more of a mystery when human intelligence gathered and agreed that the sun and stars all moved around the earth. Back then we were the center of the universe. Man, those were the good old days. Or were they?

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