Archive for April, 2009
Patty Duke, Baby Boomer, Has a New Movie
Patty Duke may live in the Idaho panhandle, but at age 62, her star continues to shine brightly on television and in the theater. After a three-year hiatus, the ’60s-era pop-culture icon finds herself this spring starring in both “Love Finds a Home” on the Hallmark Channel. For years, Patty Duke has been “married into [...]
Unemployment Longer Among Boomers
For older Baby Boomers, reports Paul Briand in the DC Examiner, the rate of unemployment is growing at a faster rate than other age groups. That was one shoe to drop. Here’s the other: Baby Boomers are staying unemployed longer. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows among all age groups in March an unemployed [...]
Lessons From a Mountain
The active boomers we admire a lot are the ones who weren’t always so active. So it is with photo artist Eli Vega. He has a built-in advantage for outdoor recreation: he lives in the state of Colorado. But not everyone in Colorado goes out and does what he does — especially not at the [...]
How to be a Fashionista after 50
Like the internet, and jet skis and cappuccino and jet airplanes, we boomers invented fashion. RIGHT?!? So why have later generations tried to improve upon it? Or maybe the question really ought to be, why have later generations rejected it? Cindy LaFerle, author of an award-winning essay collection on motherhood and midlife issues called “Writing [...]
Goodbye to Robert Hall’s
The shocking thing about being a boomer is looking back on our behavior way back when. Like, when we thought we knew what was cool. And who knows? Maybe it was. But can you believe it today? Bob Kaz can’t. Not now. But when he was a kid, the most important thing in the world [...]
Washington’s Cherry Blossoms – 2009
Each year in early April, the famous cherry and tulip trees burst into bloom around the Jefferson Memorial and the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. It’s the city’s biggest annual tourist attraction. Hundreds of thousands of visitors come from around the world for the cherry blossom festival and just to walk beneath the canopy of [...]
Stay Young! No One is Recession-Proof
No one — let alone no generation — is recession-proof. That’s why baby boomer Mary Cullen thinks it’s important to stay young, think young, and communicate young! Because as boomers are working longer, they have to enhance their skills and maximize their options. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the number of workers aged [...]
Channa Always Hated Strangers
We are the Roots generation. But for most of us, that usually means we went looking for our ancestral roots. For baby boomer Jeannette Katzir though, they could not be ignored. Not when her family’s roots had so recently reached into the Holocaust. In her brand new memoir, Broken Birds, The Story of my Momila, [...]
