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BoomerCafé either brings out the best in people, or simply brings out the best people to write about the active lives we boomers still live. Witness: Barbara Herrick. She has just written a book about her Blackberry Tea Club, which respects no limits, and as this excerpt shows, keeps proving that we have no reason to Come to our Senses.
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What
practical assets do boomers have more of than
anyone else alive? Experience. Our parents’generation
might argue with that, but we’re still young enough
to be applying it in our working lives. That’s why
BoomerCafé co-founder David Henderson’s new
book is so important. He brings decades of experience in
both network news and national-level public relations to
the task of 
How
do successful boomers follow up on their success? By
exploring new horizons, as Judy Scheffler did when she found some
We
older baby boomers have at least a handful of indelible
memories, few more vivid than that proud day when Alan Shepard
became the first American in space. It was a short flight, up
and then down again, but Shepard continued to father the space
program, culminating with a trip to the moon. But behind every
American hero is an American personality, as writer Judie Najarian
learned firsthand when she met 
Exploration?
Boomers didn't invent it, but we are the ones who have
turned it into an avocation. That's what fascinates us about Gail
Wanman Holstein's new book. It's about a woman who has been forcibly
removed from her comfortable middle class life and transplanted
to an ancient cliff dwelling in Arizona. Here is an excerpt from
Sometimes we baby boomers choose to change course in mid-life
... and sometimes the choice is made for us. For author Yitta
Halberstam, who has written “Changing Course: Women’s
Inspiring Stories of Menopause, Midlife, and Moving Forward,”
there was no choice: she was forced to 
For
many baby boomers, it was the voice of NPR's Bob Edwards that
we first heard each weekday morning.
For 24 1/2 years, Edwards was the host of Morning Edition and
brought the world to us in an easy going and accurate way that
was as familiar as that first cup of coffee every morning. BoomerCafé
is pleased to share an excerpt from Edwards' new book on 
For
some baby boomers, the war in Iraq is, as they say, "deja-vu
all over again." When
she reads of the Iraq war, Peggy Hanna's mind keeps going back
to the peace movement during the war in Vietnam, and that's what
motivated her to give BoomerCafé this excerpt from her
book: "
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Most
of us, if we came upon the poems of an ancient Persian,
probably would put them aside or, if we saw greater possibilities,
try to sell them on e-Bay. Writer Judie Najarian is more appreciative,
especially since she knows the modern academic who gave new life
to “
What
is the soul of a baby boomer?
When was it at its peak? Michael Petrie has thought about it and
written about it in a book on which he's working - Soul Unfound,
A Baby Boomer's Chronicle. Here's an advance peek -- an excerpt
about the day when 