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 [...]

The Passing of a Man With a Loving Heart

There have been numerous tributes this week to Gary Smith (right) — a generous and loving man who worked at National Public Radio in Washington, DC, and was loved back by a large community of family and friends. Mr. Smith passed away at age 57. He was a baby boomer, like us. One [...]

The Tribal Elder Speaks

When did it happen?! For so many baby boomers, it seems as if we woke up one morning and found ourselves in middle age, surrounded by younger people, especially in the workplace. At least, that’s what New York public relations agency executive Bob Brody has found. Bob, a regular essayist for The [...]

When Combative Siblings Finally Reach Out

We boomers are living in the years when many whose siblings have lost touch, reconnect. That’s what happens in veteran journalist Marie Brenner’s book, “Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found.” Brenner has written investigative articles for “Vanity Fair,” but she told the magazine that turning out this personal memoir [...]

Break Down But Live It Up

Feeling a little like an old jalopy while the sports cars pass you by? Katie B. Goode has figured out how to cope: Break Down, but Live It Up.
All equipment rusts, breaks down, and eventually gets sent to the junkyard and parted out.
Guess what. We boomers are no different.
If you’re one, you may have [...]

News Alert: Baby Boomers Like Sex!

We are sexy!  
That’s what a new poll of baby boomers tells us: we like it more, and do it more, than Gen X or when we were younger (even though that might be hard to believe).  Want to see if you’re part of the trend? Check it out, and a lot more about boomers’ [...]

Reality Check: How to Control How Old You Feel

A frequent topic at BoomerCafé is how to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle. BoomerCafé Co-Founder and Executive Editor Greg Dobbs is one of us who is not about to slow down despite … gulp! … getting older. Quite the contrary, he feels this is the time of life to be as active [...]

Queen of the Road

You think baby boomers have done it all? You think you’ve heard it all? Not even close, as Doreen Orion writes in this excerpt from her brand new book published by Broadway Books, “Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, [...]

Facing the Mid-Life Female Conundrum

Juliet Stevenson is one of Britain’s most popular and prolific actors, starring in films, television productions and on the stage. One of her best-known films was “Truly, Madly, Deeply,” a motion picture that helped to define the baby boomer generation in the same way as “The Big Chill.” On the debut of her [...]

Unplugging with a Safety Net

We always like it at BoomerCafé when boomers make life seem easier, and productivity last longer. That’s what Nancy Whitney-Reiter has done with her new book, “Unplugged: How to Disconnect From the Rat Race, Have an Existential Crisis, and Find Meaning and Fulfillment.” With the erosion of ideals from our parents’ generation, this [...]

Riding to Health

Who said vigorous exercise doesn’t matter, especially among baby boomers?! When we get old enough for a few gray hairs, exercise becomes even more important. For BoomerCafé co-founder and executive editor Greg Dobbs, regular and demanding rides on his bicycle have actually saved his life.
There are century bike rides each summer in Colorado. [...]

Baby Boomers & The Reality of Ethics

There are some who say, our generation of boomers is the last generation to really understand ethics. But others say, we’re the ones who corrupted them. Author William Charland has a story for BoomerCafé about ethics in the workplace — and how they pay off in ways you may not expect.
Survival skills.
Make a [...]

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 [...]

Death of American’s Reputation

Sure, today’s younger generations have a few advantages we didn’t have when we were their age, but as BoomerCafé co-founder and communications professional David Henderson writes, that doesn’t always make it a better world.
When I was a kid growing up in the Washington, D.C. area, American Airlines had one of the most romantic images in [...]

By the Time We Got to Woodstock …

Most of the time, BoomerCafé focuses on what our generation is doing today. But Joanne Hague is focusing right now on what we did yesterday … or more to the point, forty years ago. She’s looking for help to mark a milestone that helped shape the leading edge of the baby boomer generation. She’s rediscovering [...]