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Of all the challenges baby boomers face, none is more daunting….than answering the challenges our children pose! Laurey Boyd found out firsthand, when suddenly her boob tube wasn’t nearly big enough!

There has been a strange phenomenon in our otherwise low key little bungalow. We have gone from television sets that are teeny, to only tiny, to friggin’ huge. I was the last holdout in this transition. The aesthetics of the living room are my domain, and I’ve held to a Frazier-like eschewment of anything gaudy. Not only the monstrously humongous TV but the apparatus you put it in. I wasn’t game for a double-D-cup wall unit in my face every time I entered the living room. It took our youngest teenage son to move me past my passé philosophy.

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Juliet Stevenson is one of Britain’s most popular and prolific actors, starring in films, television productions and on the stage. One of her best-known films was “Truly, Madly, Deeply,” a motion picture that helped to define the baby boomer generation in the same way as “The Big Chill.” On the debut of her latest film, the romantic comedy “A Previous Engagement,” she spoke from England with BoomerCafé publisher David Henderson about her work, life, balancing career with raising two children and challenges at this point in her middle-aged life.

David: Juliet, how are you handling middle-age? You are phenomenally talented. I’ve noticed that you are very busy and have done something like 20 films in the last eight years. How do you do it?

Juliet: Have I? I haven’t counted. Yes, I have worked a lot. I spend my whole life juggling … my children and my work and my partner, Hugh (Brody), and other things besides. I just consider myself like anybody else who is doing that … and most women I know are doing that. I think it is kind of crazy and there are times when I think that I’ve bitten off a little more than I can chew. I wouldn’t have it otherwise, and I haven’t noticed any drop-off of stamina much. I haven’t yet experienced a lot of energy loss. People say it happens to you in your 40s but I don’t really feel that … yet. I guess it’s easy if you have natural stamina. I think it’s genetic … my Mum is 83, and she’s still tearing around. I don’t tire that easily. Continued

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Who said vigorous exercise doesn’t matter, especially among baby boomers?! When we get old enough for a few gray hairs, exercise becomes even more important. For BoomerCafé co-founder and executive editor Greg Dobbs, regular and demanding rides on his bicycle have actually saved his life.

There are century bike rides each summer in Colorado. “Century” means, a hundred … as in, a hundred miles. But by the time you’re anywhere near the hundred mile mark, especially on century rides in a state where the altitude of mountain roads rises into the quintuple digits, you’re counting not just every mile but every single foot, which is why I’ll go to pains to point out, the total mileage usually comes out to more like 102, 103 … I remember one that ended up at 108 miles.
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Hey, we may have two or three generations younger than us, but we can still get it on with new-fangled technology, can’t we? Of course we can, but as BoomerCafé co-founder David Henderson writes, maybe we don’t always want to.

Our generation may be getting a few gray hairs but that hasn’t slowed us from embracing new technology, like the switch in photography from film to digital. I only have one friend who is still using film. Everyone else has switched to digital.

I love digital photography, and a couple of things started me thinking recently about getting a new digital camera.

First, was the pain I endured lugging around my Nikon D70s SLR during a hiking vacation in the Swiss Alps last summer. The Nikon can capture outstanding images but feels like a brick on a strap that’s slung over your shoulder. Who needs that weight during a long hike? Give me something lightweight that takes superb photos.

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