Archive for September, 2009
What Makes Us Happy?
The leading edge of baby boomers are there: retirement! And that means — today’s economy notwithstanding — the rest of us can’t be far behind. So what does it take to be happy in retirement? Planning. Dr. Bill Roiter explains why.
Marrying George Clooney!
Many of today’s most popular actresses and actors are … well … a little young, yes?!? But our boomer generation has its own icons. Most of us are probably content to just see them on the big screen, maybe even to fantasize from time to time about meeting them. But Amy Ferris has taken it a step further. She has just published a whole book about her fantasy, and given us an excerpt. It is called Marrying George Clooney!
You Are Not Who You Were, Only Older
We all have to figure out how to handle aging. That doesn’t make us senior citizens. It merely means, we’re getting older, and seeing more and more of the younger generations behind us. Evelyn Kalinosky might have it all figured out, because she has come to realize, You Are Not Who You Were, Only Older.
Boomer Retirements Mean Brain Drain
Many people underestimate the potentially catastrophic impact of “Brain Drain” when thousands of baby boomers leave the work force, writes Rick Weaver in The Examiner.com. The Pentagon is now dealing with the problem on a very serious scale.
Is There Sex and Love After 50?
Is there sex and love after 50? If you’re like baby boomer Gary Morgenstein, who went to his Jewish temple one day and saw a drop-dead gorgeous woman and asked a friend “Who’s the hottie?” and the friend said “That’s our rabbi,” the answer has to be yes!
Greg Dobbs: Life in the Wrong Lane
BoomerCafé co-founder and executive editor Greg Dobbs has a new book out. It is called “Life in the Wrong Lane,” because that’s where Greg — a longtime producer, then correspondent for ABC News, now a correspondent for HDNet Television — has spent most of his life: In the wrong lane, trying to get into places when smart, normal people are trying to get out.
Baby Boomers and RVs
RVs. Recreational vehicles. Either baby boomers love them or hate them. There seems little middle ground.
Twitter Ranks High With Baby Boomers
You’d think that social networking is the territory of younger people. But the explosive growth of social networking site Twitter is due to younger Baby Boomers, according to statistics from ComScore. Overall, the stats for Twitter are staggering: Traffic is up 700 percent over last year.
