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News Updates for Empty Nesters

News Updates for Empty Nesters

| August 29, 2009 | 0 Comments

We love hearing from Veronica and David James because we love to watch them make the mistakes we can then try to avoid! Right now, David’s figuring out how to eat when there’s no one else to eat the leftovers.

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Searching for Love

Searching for Love

| January 1, 2009 | 0 Comments

Looking for love? Boomer humor writer Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant has taken a new interest in boomers — and those older and younger — who are. Her latest book is “Not Guilty by Reason of Menopause,” which might make her the perfect person to decipher the search for love … as soon as she finds her [...]

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The Need for Married Dates

The Need for Married Dates

| October 8, 2008 | 0 Comments

All baby boomers with kids are one of two things right now: either gypsy nesters, or empty nesters. Veronica James and her husband, David, are the former, and have figured out how to prepare for the former. Here is her latest update for BoomerCafé. I’ve read that one of biggest pitfalls to having kids is [...]

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Happily Unmarried

Happily Unmarried

| September 29, 2008 | 2 Comments

There are many reasons why baby boomer couples who might have gotten married a decade or two ago only live together now. Some reasons have to do with morality, some with affordability, some with practicality. Dr. John Curtis, a Ph.D. in Human Resource Development who has just written a book called “Happily Un-Married: Living Together [...]

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High School Reunions

High School Reunions

| September 4, 2008 | 0 Comments

For many of today’s baby boomers, high school reunion is a fading memory. Not so much, though, for writer Julia Jones. It’s that time of year again! You go to your mailbox one afternoon and there it is. Laying there, innocently looking like another bill or piece of junk mail. Then you look closer, and [...]

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Loveless in Tennis Heaven

Loveless in Tennis Heaven

| August 15, 2008 | 13 Comments

Some baby boomers are never stuck for something to do … even if they do it wrong. That’s how things have turned out for Laurey and Bill Boyd, who have made for themselves a “loveless” marriage … loveless, in tennis heaven. My husband and I have rediscovered an old high school sweetheart: tennis. With our [...]

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A Man’s Guide to Making Relationships Last

A Man’s Guide to Making Relationships Last

| August 9, 2008 | 1 Comment

We’re never too old for some things. Sex is certainly on that list. So is romance. But so is the need from time to time to renew some lessons we might have forgotten to make sex and romance successful. Denny Durbin is the author of “Lazy Enchiladas Redefining Success,” and has turned his success to [...]

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The Day She Met Marty

The Day She Met Marty

| July 6, 2008 | 3 Comments

By this age, if we’re lucky, we’ve had the chance to fall in love with both a partner, and life itself. It sounds like baby boomer Jane Mohler Pigott has, in this paean to the day She Met Marty. When I met Marty I was nearly convinced that life after fifty would be better alone [...]

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The Dirty Little Secret

The Dirty Little Secret

| April 17, 2008 | 0 Comments

Like so many of us, David & Veronica James are experiencing the collision of baby boomer with empty nester. How to cope? Veronica calls it her “Dirty Little Secret” … but she tells us! David and I have one chick left in the nest. He graduates from high school in June. And I am marking [...]

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Technicolor Memories

| October 23, 2006 | 4 Comments

Our memories come in different colors. But for baby-boomer and author Carol Hoenig, they also come in different sounds. For the music of our generation is her memory of young adulthood. Those songs, in fact, are her Old Friends. Movies rely on a soundtrack to carry a story forward and my life is not much [...]

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