Archive for January, 2009
Earning Enough to Live Well
Fellow boomers, if misery loves company, you’ve got plenty, because with the bad economy and its effect on what we’ve saved for retirement, more than half of us are going to put it off for at least a year…and a quarter say, they’ll have to work five years longer than they’d planned. This comes from [...]
Favorite Foolish Fiascos
The disadvantage to being a boomer is that we’ve had more time than younger generations to make mistakes. The advantage, though, is that we’ve been able to learn from them … if we’re smart. Stephen Rosen has made his share … maybe a share of yours, too…and is ready to share the lessons he has [...]
Curtain Closing on Boomer Era?
We’ve just had a shocker: there’s not just one generation of boomers; there are two. And in The Denver Post, Karen Auge wrote about it … the day after the new president was sworn in! The inauguration of Barack Obama was awash in symbolism, much of it momentous. But there was something else afoot on [...]
Survival and Recovery from Grief
We like to be upbeat … but we also like to be realistic. And realism says, we’re going to start losing the ones we love, if not this year, or even this decade, then the next. How will that affect our jobs, and our performance in the workplace? Jane Galbraith is the author of “Baby [...]
Social Security: Apply Now Online
Baby boomers have lived through the assassinations of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Martin Luther King Jr., the race to the moon and the Communist threat, Watergate and a few wars. Along the way, most became comfortable using computers and the Internet. Now, as they ease into their golden years, they’ll be part of another [...]
BoomerCafé … the Next 10 Years
All of us baby boomers are getting older, and so is BoomerCafé. We think (at least we like to think) that we’ve all aged well together. The question is, do the generations that came after us agree? BoomerCafé co-founder and publisher David Henderson looks at the evolution of our ezine, and as an expert on [...]
A Boomer Conquers Fear
Kids gone, time free, money not evaporated … yet? Then you might want to follow in the footsteps of Veronica James, from GypsyNester.com, who decided to prove to herself that there is life after children. Although for a while, it seemed more like death. She conquered her fear … under water. Now that the chicks [...]
Can Barack Obama Fix It? Yes He Can.
Baby boomer Barack Obama becomes President of the United States. His new administration promises a break with the failures of the Bush years but what does he really stand for? Andrew Sullivan of the London Times examines his likely domestic and foreign policies and weighs their chances of success. Magnanimity in victory: that was Churchill’s [...]
Wigging Out
[Editor's note: Writer Cathy Fischer is our friend, and she is writing with great courage about her personal battle with breast cancer, a challenge that many women face. Cathy is keeping a journal that is being posted on her blog, FiftyIsTheNew.com. Her most recent story is shared with the readers of BoomerCafé.] Breast Cancer update: [...]
