Category: Family & Children
Boomer Generation Defies Labels
I guess you could say I’ve always been a late bloomer. Adolescence for me lasted well into my 30s. I was in my late 30s when I finally graduated from law school; pushing forty when I married my darlin’ wife Laura; and now, mid-fifties for becoming a first-time dad!
Boomerang Kids: Adults and Youthful Idealism
Boomerang Kids: young adults who leave home with youthful idealism and excitement about the adventures awaiting them, only to ricochet back to their rooms when life out of the nest, with its pesky responsibilities, thwarts their efforts at independence.
Baby Boomers Face Grief and Survive
We baby boomers might have discovered the key to living an active life … but we haven’t figured out yet the key to making it last forever. And with the generation above us getting older, and smaller, we face the inevitable challenge of dealing with death. Jane Galbraith, author of “Baby Boomers Face Grief – [...]
Veronica and David’s No Plan Plan
Have you done everything you planned to do? Veronica and David James have, which is why they’ve moved now to a no plan plan. Yes, after many years with the obligatory plans any young couple has to make, they’re winging it. And, as David writes, loving it. On the same day that we officially became [...]
Boomer Parents’ Advice to College Seniors
If you have a son or daughter who’s graduating from college in a few months, chances are you’re a Baby Boomer, writes Paul Briand in The Examiner. And chances are you’re wondering what advice you might give them if indeed they don’t have much of a clue as to how to approach a retrenching job [...]
The Healing Hope of Holidays Ahead
With Thanksgiving now behind us, baby boomer Jane Mohler Pigott reflects upon the meaning of this holiday, and the healing hope of holidays ahead. On Thanksgiving, we all bowed our heads while Grandpa carved a forty-pound turkey he had raised all summer, just for that moment. Behind him in the bay window, the sun shown [...]
Grandmotherness
Here’s a boomer milestone: even the youngest boomer today is now old enough to be a grandparent. We saw a fun piece by Susan Rosenbaum on MomLogic.com about how she’s handling “grandmotherness.” Quite well, we think! So finally, I too joined the wild and enchanted world of grandmotherness. Sometimes it truly feels like a trip [...]
Orphan Boomers, Without Family Connections
Call them orphan baby boomers, facing the prospect of upcoming retirement and old age without the built-in support system otherwise provided by marriage or family. It’s seldom voiced explicitly, maybe because it sounds so selfish, but one of the benefits of having children is the possibility that, someday, those kids can take care of Mom [...]
Prelude To An Empty Nest
If you’re an empty nester now, you’ll appreciate this! The home of Prudence Baird, a contributor to the Blogazine, “From Fifty is the New…,” isn’t empty yet, but already she feels her nest thinning out. So she calls this piece, “Prelude To An Empty Nest.” The screen door bangs shut behind me, echoing in a [...]
Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister’s Memoir
“Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister’s Memoir,” this year’s “recommended read” at Target Stores and already optioned for a film to be produced by Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria, is the story of boomer author Heather Summerhayes Cariou’s life together with her sister Pam. When Heather was six and Pam was four, Pam was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. [...]
