Archive for April, 2008
Riding to Health
Who said vigorous exercise doesn’t matter, especially among baby boomers?! When we get old enough for a few gray hairs, exercise becomes even more important. For BoomerCafé co-founder and executive editor Greg Dobbs, regular and demanding rides on his bicycle have actually saved his life.
There are century bike rides each summer in Colorado. [...]
Baby Boomers & The Reality of Ethics
There are some who say, our generation of boomers is the last generation to really understand ethics. But others say, we’re the ones who corrupted them. Author William Charland has a story for BoomerCafé about ethics in the workplace — and how they pay off in ways you may not expect.
Survival skills.
Make a [...]
Boomer Tips: Great Digital Camera Photos
Hey, we may have two or three generations younger than us, but we can still get it on with new-fangled technology, can’t we? Of course we can, but as BoomerCafé co-founder David Henderson writes, maybe we don’t always want to.
Our generation may be getting a few gray hairs but that hasn’t slowed us from [...]
The Dirty Little Secret
Like so many of us, David & Veronica James are experiencing the collision of baby boomer with empty nester. How to cope? Veronica calls it her “Dirty Little Secret” … but she tells us!
David and I have one chick left in the nest. He graduates from high school in June. And I am marking the [...]
Letter To A Friend Turning 50
Some of us boomers, even before we knew what generation we were part of, feared milestone birthdays. 20, the end of childhood; 30, the end of youth; 40, the beginning of middle age; 50, just a decade til 60! But writer Cindy La Ferle has shared with BoomerCafé a letter she just wrote [...]
Living it Up in Life’s Second Half
What’s a baby boomer without a midlife crisis? Albuquerque’s Sheila Key and Dr. Peggy Spencer have just written a book about it called, 50 Ways to Leave Your 40s: Living it Up in Life’s Second Half. They’ve allowed BoomerCafé to run an excerpt which is rightly called, Okay, Have a Crisis Already!
The [...]
Death of American’s Reputation
Sure, today’s younger generations have a few advantages we didn’t have when we were their age, but as BoomerCafé co-founder and communications professional David Henderson writes, that doesn’t always make it a better world.
When I was a kid growing up in the Washington, D.C. area, American Airlines had one of the most romantic images in [...]
