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This is a favorite section of BoomerCafé. Today's news and information for baby boomers with active lifestyles --
Someone
has created a website that brings together all those memories,
and David says it's worth checking out --
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How often have you heard your boomer peers pine for “the good old days?” When you hear it again, tell them about a book out there called, “The good old days ... They were terrible!” Steve Marini may not go that far, but he surely rejects the notion that yesterday was paradise and today is 
When baby boomers lead the way, we like to show them off. That’s why we’re publishing this piece by fellow boomer Greg Hartley, co-author of How to Spot a Liar (Career Press, 2005), which explores approaches to understanding and controlling human behavior. He’s giving us some advice which by this stage in life, when we might have lost the art of compromise, we probably need. Namely, it’s about 
Our
generation didn’t exactly invent the work ethic....but
you might say, we’ve carried it to the extreme. But
essayist Cindy La Ferle has had enough of her own dedication
to labor. She has committed to a summer of revival for 
It's
not our imagination --
television really was a lot more fun and creative back when we
were kids. In the Washington, DC, area -- where BoomerCafé co-founder
David Henderson grew up -- the kid's shows on local channels
were terrific. Willard Scott, for example, was the first
Ronald McDonald. Jim Henson and his muppets started their careers
on a weekday afternoon show on a Washington TV station. And,
a
local radio announcer named Jackson Weaver was Smokey the Bear.
