All Entries in the "David James" Category
News Updates for Empty Nesters
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.
Give Mama a Ball of Paint
It can be hard for boomers to find life after children. Unless they have an imagination. Empty nesters Veronica and David James do, and found the right way to pass Mothers Day without the mother’s children anywhere around. What Mama found was a big Ball of Paint.
It was Mother’s Day. A milestone for me. [...]
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 [...]
No One Better Than Dylan
When’s the last time in your life that a single song evoked an entire era? There may be no singer who does that for boomers better than Bob Dylan. Veronica and David James went to see him, and came away knowing it was worth the effort. As David writes, there’s always an [...]
Adventures in Nest Swapping
Maybe you would never trade your children — assuming their teen years are past! — but how would you like to trade the empty nest they left you with? Veronica James and her husband David figured out how to give it away, and get it back, with a fling in between. They call [...]
Sardinia Has the Best Donkey
David and Veronica James, publishers of The Gypsy Nester, send us this dispatch from Sardinia:
The Italian island of Sardinia (Sardegna) brought out the adventurer in us. Our first stop was Sassari, a city of about 120,000 with a rich history dating back to the early Middle Ages. A college town, home to the University of [...]
Scare Your Kid Out of the House!
Kids coming home? AGAIN?!? GypsyNester.com has figured out the Top Ten Ways to Scare Your Boomerang Kid Out of the House!
10. Greet your child at the door naked, with a bottle of Viagra and a can of whipped cream in your hands, and shout, “Honey, I guess we can’t use the kitchen, our [...]
Do Our Kids Truly Grow Up?
Got grown kids? If your answer is yes, then reexamine one key word in the question: “Grown.” Are they truly grown up? If not, whose fault is that? Veronica James from GypsyNester.com believes it could be yours … If you don’t do something about it, you might always have Boomerang Kids.
I’m [...]
The Dirty Little Secret
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 the [...]
Gypsy Nesters
Are the kids gone? Are you having fun without them? Don’t feel guilty; David James doesn’t. He says there’s life after kids, and you’re absolutely entitled to enjoy it!
When Veronica and I came up with the idea to write about living life after raising kids, and actually looking forward to it, one of the first [...]
