Archive for March, 2007
Writing Home
For most of us, part of being a baby boomer is seeing our own babies grow up. It feels pretty good….but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Writer Cindy LaFerle, whose new column collection “Writing Home” has just been published, found that she had to go out on a wing and a prayer to [...]
Footsteps of Fire
We boomers have been around long enough now to have wonderful stories to tell about our discoveries — sometimes they are discoveries of new energies, sometimes of new loves, sometimes of new beauties. Cynthia Fraser Graves discovered enough when she returned to the seaside city of Bar Harbor, Maine, to inspire her new book, [...]
Don’t Call Me … “M’am!”
Do we really need someone else to tell us we’re getting older? Especially when he’s so much younger?!? And he doesn’t know that some day, he’ll be where we are?!?!? Humor writer and mid-age Boomer Katie B. Goode doesn’t really mind aging; she just minds when someone points it out so blatantly by calling her [...]
Building for Boomers
Like the ad says, “That was your father’s retirement community.” And that’s because, developers are beginning to build for us: active baby boomers with active lifestyles. Which means, according to John Brady of TopRetirements.com, hello sky-diving, goodbye shuffleboard.
Every day almost 8,000 of the 76 million baby boomers hit the big Six-Oh. This demographic tsunami [...]
Living Amid Romance in Rome
Are we silly to feel like teens again, or just young enough to be able to? Writer Claudia Flisi just feels young, living in Rome and running into everyone from Good-Looking Antonio to Claudia Cardinale.
The Italian actress Claudia Cardinale was the guest of honor at a local film festival last year, and I had the [...]
