Archive for July, 2009
Munich: Surf City Europe
Where will we go when we have time to go somewhere? Where will we live when we have time to retire? BoomerCafé publisher and co-founder David Henderson has found one place that never entered his mind … until he got visions of the Beach Boys at Surf City.
40 Days Since Neda’s Death
One of the events that shaped our younger years as baby boomers was the revolution in Iran, the first revolution thirty years ago that led to a shift in America’s strengths in the Middle East. Now, there is another revolution in the making, and although no one knows who will win, it has given voice to people who previously might have been afraid to speak.
Are You Still Cool?!
It’s been a long, long time since we Baby Boomers were in high school. Ever wonder how today’s high school kids view our generation? Lawyer and writer Mike Petrie decided to go looking for answers. The question was: Are We Still Cool?
What is a Baby Boomer?
To the question — What is a Baby Boomer? — the simple answer is that Baby Boomers are the children of the World War II generation. But, like Baby Boomers themselves, the real answer is more complex, with subtleties of variation.
Baby Boomer Web Sites Come and Go
Paul Briand of the Examiner.com, one of today’s best observers of the aging baby boomer generation, writes that new Web sites come and go in the online world. In this article, Paul highlights a couple of new sites that target America’s largest age group.
Revising Baby Boomer Music
We boomers like to think that the performers of our generation are the greatest performers of the ages. Listen to what our kids have playing in their ears, you’ll know we’re right! Well, those performers who grew from the boomer generation are getting older themselves, and some are revising their hits with new lyrics to reflect that fact.
Where to Live for the Rest of Our Lives?
Many of us are beginning to wonder, and some have even acted already: where do we want to retire? Dr. Bill Roiter, author of “Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Retire Successfully,” has figured out that when we ask that question, what we’re really asking is, where do we want to live for the rest of our lives?
