Archive for March, 2008
Reaching the Uncertain Age
As active baby boomers, we feel young … but how young do we have to look? Journalist Cindy La Ferle says, not nearly as young as parts of society demand! When she looks around, she sees Women of an Uncertain Age.
Lately, my fifty-something friends and I have been rehashing the time-worn topic of [...]
By the Time We Got to Woodstock …
Most of the time, BoomerCafé focuses on what our generation is doing today. But Joanne Hague is focusing right now on what we did yesterday … or more to the point, forty years ago. She’s looking for help to mark a milestone that helped shape the leading edge of the baby boomer generation. She’s rediscovering [...]
Gypsy Nesters
Are the kids gone? Are you having fun without them? Don’t feel guilty; David James doesn’t. He says there’s life after kids, and you’re absolutely entitled to enjoy it!
When Veronica and I came up with the idea to write about living life after raising kids, and actually looking forward to it, one of the first [...]
Running Away From Home
Are you ready to get on with your life? Boomers generally are. And that includes boomer Rosanne Knorr. And we mean, your life; not your friends’, not your kids’. She writes about it in this excerpt from the introduction to her book, The Grown-up’s Guide to Running Away from Home.
Life is [...]
Scott Simon: Windy City
A common trait of many baby boomers is having grown up with a natural curiosity about our ethnic origins. Filmmaker Barry Levinson looked back at his family to make the poignant film, Avalon, about growing up in Baltimore. Now, NPR’s popular radio host Scott Simon, one of the nation’s more visible baby boomers, [...]
Bumping Into The Old Flame
It’s not unnatural for baby boomers to feel like their youth is a thing of the past. Technically these days we range from middle-aged to seniors. The question is, are we at peace with this? Mel Miskimen thought so until she unexpectedly encountered an old flame, and tried to feel the heat.
Oh. My. [...]
Thinking Through Career Change
Making a career change? We’ve all had plenty of time for it. The question is, do we know where it’s going? Kind of like a fresh graduate, do we know what we want to do for a living now? Former television executive Alice Riehl faced it before, and although she’s closer [...]
