Archive for July, 2008
Finding My Grandmother’s Secret Journal
No matter how many years back they go, we all have childhood memories. Some are sweet, some are sad. In this excerpt from the first chapter of her book Regina’s Closet: Finding My Grandmother’s Secret Journal, Diana M. Raab has a bit of both. The time is 1964. The place, New York. I was ten [...]
Wedding Dress Redux
As active baby boomers, we can be both modern and old-fashioned at the same time. Writer Debra Darvick proved it one recent day when she became an Afternoon Bride. “I give you a lot of credit,” the bridal consultant said as she zipped me into a six thousand dollar confection of a gown. Clouds of [...]
Do Our Kids Truly Grow Up?
Got grown kids? If your answer is yes, then reexamine one key word in the question: “Grown.” Are they truly grown up? If not, whose fault is that? Veronica James from GypsyNester.com believes it could be yours … If you don’t do something about it, you might always have Boomerang Kids. I’m an advice column [...]
Retirement is an Outdated Concept
It’s not surprising that as we boomers get older, we get reflective. Are we kidding ourselves that somehow, we’re younger than our parents were at this age? BoomerCafé co-founder and publisher David Henderson doesn’t think so. But what he sees in his own life is, we only stay young by going in different directions than [...]
A Boomer Finds Serenity and Peace
As boomers, we’ve lived long enough to know how to get through the day with a minimum of grief. We know, but do we do it? Furthermore, how do we do it? BoomerCafé reader Carol Stanley tells how she tries to make every day, a peaceful day. To have a peaceful and serene day, one [...]
The Tribal Elder Speaks
When did it happen?! For so many baby boomers, it seems as if we woke up one morning and found ourselves in middle age, surrounded by younger people, especially in the workplace. At least, that’s what New York public relations agency executive Bob Brody has found. Bob, a regular essayist for The New York Times, [...]
The Day She Met Marty
By this age, if we’re lucky, we’ve had the chance to fall in love with both a partner, and life itself. It sounds like baby boomer Jane Mohler Pigott has, in this paean to the day She Met Marty. When I met Marty I was nearly convinced that life after fifty would be better alone [...]
Chasing Big Dreams
You don’t have to play golf to chase big dreams. But for boomer author Jamey Wolf, making the PGA tour is a big dream, “right up there,” he says, “with playing second base for the Chicago White Sox, winning a Nobel Prize for discovering a cure for cancer, and solving the ‘meaning of life’ riddle. [...]
When Combative Siblings Finally Reach Out
We boomers are living in the years when many whose siblings have lost touch, reconnect. That’s what happens in veteran journalist Marie Brenner’s book, “Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found.” Brenner has written investigative articles for “Vanity Fair,” but she told the magazine that turning out this personal memoir was “the [...]
