All Entries in the "Cindy La Ferle" Category

How to be a Fashionista after 50

Like the internet, and jet skis and cappuccino and jet airplanes, we boomers invented fashion. RIGHT?!? So why have later generations tried to improve upon it? Or maybe the question really ought to be, why have later generations rejected it? Cindy LaFerle, author of an award-winning essay collection [...]

Only Skin Deep?

If we’re honest — and some are still coming to terms with that — we will admit that the fountain of youth doesn’t flow forever. Columnist Cindy LaFerle has decided to face the fact, and explains in this essay for BoomerCafé what it cost her.

As a seasoned female journalist in her early fifties, I’ve [...]

Letter To A Friend Turning 50

Some of us boomers, even before we knew what generation we were part of, feared milestone birthdays. 20, the end of childhood; 30, the end of youth; 40, the beginning of middle age; 50, just a decade til 60! But writer Cindy La Ferle has shared with BoomerCafé a letter she just wrote [...]

Reaching the Uncertain Age

As active baby boomers, we feel young … but how young do we have to look? Journalist Cindy La Ferle says, not nearly as young as parts of society demand! When she looks around, she sees Women of an Uncertain Age.
Lately, my fifty-something friends and I have been rehashing the time-worn topic of [...]

Why I Still Love Halloween

For many baby boomers, Halloween may conjure up images and memories of a more innocent time. Clearly it does for writer Cindy La Ferle who shares this essay about Halloween from her book, Writing Home.
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” ~George Carlin
Halloween always stirs a cauldron of memories [...]

Writing Home

For most of us,