Recent Articles
Where are all the great music tracks that defined the baby boomer generation?
Where are those great music tracks from the salad days of our youth?!? And where can we hear them today? Well-known New York City communications executive Peter Himler, a baby boomer, wanted to know, and went searching. As he explains, the result wasn’t always a happy one.
Looking for talent among baby boomers. No Kazoo needed
Boomer writer Marcia Barhydt has discovered a market where baby boomers are quite welcome, thank you — even sought. She calls it, Boomers Got Talent.
Low airfares are harder to come by, increases expected
Those cheap airfares we’ve seen are going to be harder and harder to come by. Airline ticket prices are up an average of 10 percent this year over last year.
Slogans embraced by baby boomers a few years ago
Unforgettable is more than just a song. It’s the slogans we baby boomers used in the 60s. And boomer writer Carrier Slocomb finds them useful again today.
Contrasting emergency healthcare in Europe versus in the U.S.
BoomerCafé Co-Founder and Executive Editor Greg Dobbs, himself a baby boomer, was in Belfast, Northern Ireland, recently on a TV news assignment … only to end up in an emergency room with a serious, life-threatening condition. The experience has given him a unique, first-hand perspective of healthcare in Europe versus in the U.S.
The trials, pitfalls and challenges of dating when over 50
Dating? DATING? Maybe the books and the online matchmaking sites make it look easy, but it’s not. Because if you’re a baby boomer, before anything else, you have to decide WHO you want to date. That’s what Chad Stone struggled with when he wrote about it in his book, Confessions of a Middle-Aged Babe Magnet.
Redefining and redirecting my life at 50 and beyond
Sudden job loss. Layoffs. It happens to many baby boomers these days in the U.S. and Canada. Life becomes, “What to do next … and, try not to panic.” That happened to David Hemmings, a baby boomer who lives in Ontario, Canada. And, then, his dreams began coming true. His is an inspiring story.
The classic Ford Mustang is put out to pasture by Ford
At a time when many companies are trying to figure out how to tap into the enormous baby boomer demographic – 76-million strong – Ford Motor Company is planning to abandon production of a car that became an icon of the boomer generation, the Mustang.
Retirement bliss for baby boomers may turn to blues
Will the old thirtysomething gang still be showing up for work at seventy something? That could be the case for many of their real-world contemporaries if they hope to enjoy financially secure retirements.
The End of a Prideful Culture in America
As baby boomers, we have seen changes in America that have been documented ad-infinitum. But BoomerCafé co-founder and publisher David Henderson has just taken a personal journey, and come across something that has not gotten nearly as much attention: The End of a Prideful Culture in America.
