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September 19, 2012 by David Gillaspie
Here it is. BoomerPDX.com will become, with a little help from my friends, a social network of baby boomers looking …
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Category: blogging
| Tags: baby boomer, boomerpdx.com, Generations and Age Groups, marketing, Old age, people, Plastic surgery, retirement, surgery, United States, writer, writing
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September 10, 2012 by David Gillaspie
Dear Bloggers and Blog Readers, Recently I enrolled in a class to learn how to make money blogging. Better, Smarter, …
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Category: blogging, books, money, Portland
| Tags: baby boomer, blog, blogger, blogging, Bluehost, boomer generation, cPanel, culture, essay, Greatest Generation, history, Hitler, humor, Oregon, Portland Oregon, Sandwich Generation, Sophia Loren, Tojo, WordPress, writer, writing
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August 28, 2012 by David Gillaspie
Rick Reilly, famous sports writer and fun guy by most accounts, wrote an espn.com column about gym characters. He’s seen …
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Category: boomers, exersise, gym
| Tags: aging, baby boomer, boomer generation, culture, David Gillaspie, Generations and Age Groups, humor, Mother, parent, people, Rick Reilly, sports, United States, World War II
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February 1, 2011 by David Gillaspie
Not Fade Away: I wanna tell you how it’s gonna be? Good luck with that. If Baby Boomers live up …
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Category: boomers, history
| Tags: Alzheimer's disease, baby boomer, Beatles, boomer generation, culture, essay, health, people, Rubber Soul, United States, writer
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November 17, 2009 by David Gillaspie
IT ALWAYS MATTERS The man in the hospital bed was not the man who gave his step-daughter to me at our wedding. The …
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Category: caregiving, education, wrestling
| Tags: aging, Alzheimer’s, amateur wrestling, baby boomer, boomer generation, cancer, care, caregiver, caregiver tactics, caregiving, college wrestling, combined family, competition, David Gillaspie, dementia, depression, elder care, elderly, emotions, end of life, essay, family caregiver, family caregiving, fear, high school wrestling, learning, long term care, memoir, Oregon, Oregon wrestling, parent care, parents, parkinson's, primary caregiver, Sandwich Generation, senior issues, sports, stress, victory, winning, wrestling
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November 13, 2009 by David Gillaspie
WITH GENTLE CARE Ask any family caregiver who’s gone for the cycle to recall their best memory. Just one. If they cared …
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Category: caregiving
| Tags: aging, Alzheimer’s, baby boomer, boomer generation, cancer, care, caregiver, caregiver tactics, caregiving, combined family, dementia, depression, dogs, elder care, elderly, emotions, end of life, essay, family caregiver, family caregiving, fear, life, long term care, love, marriage, Matlock, memoir, memory, miracle, Oregon, parent care, parents, parkinson's, primary caregiver, reading, Sandwich Generation, senior issues, stress
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November 12, 2009 by David Gillaspie
AND THE OTHER WAY AROUND The family caregiver rolls through the day with a partner if their loved one is married. It’s a sandwich …
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Category: caregiving
| Tags: aging, Alzheimer’s, baby boomer, books, boomer generation, cancer, care, caregiver, caregiver tactics, caregiving, combined family, dementia, depression, Devon England, elder care, elderly, emotions, end of life, England, essay, family caregiver, family caregiving, fear, life, long term care, love, M.A.S.H., marriage, Matlock, memoir, miracle, Oregon, parent care, parents, parkinson's, primary caregiver, reading, Sandwich Generation, senior issues, stress, Zane Grey
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November 11, 2009 by David Gillaspie
WHERE EVERY DAY IS VETERANS DAY I belong to a gym where veterans carry on the fight. Time is …
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Category: Army
| Tags: 1974, aging, Air Force, Army, baby boomer, basic training, boomer generation, boot camp, Coast Guard, essay, exercise, Fort Ord, gym, history, life, Marine, memoir, Navy, resistance training, veterans, Veterans Day, weight lifting, weight training
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November 2, 2009 by David Gillaspie
WHERE IT SHOWS, WHERE IT DOESN’T Football on television always shows the sidelines of the winners and the losers. Look closely and …
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Category: caregiving
| Tags: aging, Alzheimer’s, baby boomer, boomer generation, cancer, caregiver, caregiver tactics, caregiving, dementia, depression, elder care, elderly, emotions, end of life, essay, family caregiver, family caregiving, fear, hospital care, life, medical options, miracle, Oregon, parent care, parents, parkinson's, primary caregiver, Sandwich Generation, stress
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October 8, 2009 by David Gillaspie
BONE ON BONE Guests at DG’s B&B arrive in all shapes and sizes. The regulars share more of their …
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Category: medicine, wellness
| Tags: aging, alternative medicine, baby boomer, boomer generation, chiropractic, essay, exercise, fitness, hip injury, limp, pain, pain medication, people, stress, stretching, surgery, weight control, wellness, yoga
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