The Pan Am television program which airs Sunday nights at 10 pm on ABC has spent its first month introducing characters and situations that the creators hope will garner eyeballs. Truth is, I don't … [Read more...] about One Boomer Memory That Will Never Leave Me
Archives for 2011
A Boomer Reminder To Keep it Real
It is said that laughter takes us out of time and in those moments we are spontaneously liberated from taking ourselves too seriously and to being truly alive. This is my boomer mantra. My morning … [Read more...] about A Boomer Reminder To Keep it Real
Top 10 Boomer Tips to Prepare for an IRS Audit
Keeping your cool when you can’t do anything else. This baby boomer is smiling now but six hours earlier while sitting in the Internal Revenue office, a tear escaped down my cheek. I got … [Read more...] about Top 10 Boomer Tips to Prepare for an IRS Audit
THEODORA: – A Boot Strapper’s Master Class
On page one I sense the main character Theodora in this masterpiece Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore. And I know immediately that I love. this. book. I am partial to historical documentation and this … [Read more...] about THEODORA: – A Boot Strapper’s Master Class
6 Frugal Foreign Travel Tips for Boomers
(Note: If you are accustomed to traveling, the scarcity of money does not take the desire to travel away. Kate has a few suggestions for how boomers can keep this important value alive in their … [Read more...] about 6 Frugal Foreign Travel Tips for Boomers
Boomer Non-Traditions: One Size Families
Boomer lifestyles have changed what we have come to understand as family. In the past 20 years, we can now say without fear of being stoned that a nuclear family while totally desirable is not the … [Read more...] about Boomer Non-Traditions: One Size Families
Why Boomers Do Not Ascribe to A Linear Lifestyle
The idea that life has to be lived one way is unacceptable to baby boomers and I cannot remember ever thinking otherwise. It was inconceivable that I, like my two sisters, would marry and have … [Read more...] about Why Boomers Do Not Ascribe to A Linear Lifestyle
Top 5 +1 Ways to Tell a Boomer from a Senior
This photo has nothing to do with me. I put it here to make that exact point. This is an unknown beach friend I see early mornings and at sunset when I walk the beach with my dog Jinji. But I thought … [Read more...] about Top 5 +1 Ways to Tell a Boomer from a Senior