Boomer Dilemma – Are We Traveling Together … or is it Potty Time Yet?
Going on a long car trip? It might be even longer, if you’re a baby boomer who needs … um … more potty time.
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Baby Boomers Face Facebook and Other Realities
We boomers live active lifestyles, sure, but what happens when they get both active and empty? Wendy Shade found out, as she learned to Face Facebook and Other Realities.
Pre-boomer Poms Pump Up The Volume
Usually on BoomerCafé we features stories about what boomers are doing to stay active and young. But boomer writer Marcia Barhydt puts a twist on the theme: she writes about “pre-boomers” who stay equally active and young.
Baby Boomers – Don’t Let a Calendar Dictate Your Lives
One thing that distinguishes our generation from all generations that came before us is, we don’t let the calendar dictate our lives. And as Liz Kitchens writes, there are solid ways to ensure that.
The Baby Boomer Gift of Teamwork in Entertainment
We boomers sure saw some good entertainment when we were kids. But just how easily did it come to us? As Perry Block writes, we were the beneficiaries of formulas in teamwork that we probably didn’t appreciate at the time. And maybe not even today.
How to make enough dough before and after retirement
The economic news for many baby boomers — probably most — isn’t good: we may be getting old enough to retire, but we’re not rich enough. But Lisa Orrell may have some answers in her new book, “Boomers into Business.”
Is busy better? Wendy Shade has a better idea
It is hardly a novel observation to say, the world has changed. And the way we are perceived by our peers has changed, too. Wendy Shade has figured it out … and, she doesn’t want to be too busy any more.
What Am I Going To Do With The Rest Of My Life?
“Working” is a hard act to follow. But every day, more and more baby boomers are trying. Georgia Feiste has just tacked the challenge, along with her husband, and found some answers that might work for many of us when we ask, What Am I Going To Do With The Rest Of My Life?
How Much We Don’t Know as Baby Boomers
We baby boomers know what we know, and after all these years, that’s a lot. What we don’t know is how much we don’t know. Humor writer Steve Meador, who has just discovered yet another tidbit of useful information that he didn’t know.
Reinvention, Baby Boomer Style
It was first written in the 17th Century that the only constant in life is change. But there wasn’t really much change from generation to generation back then. Today though, it never stops. And that applies to boomers more than anyone else. Which is why we like this essay by boomer writer Marcia Barhydt about Reinvention, Boomer-Style.
Grandparenthood, and Other Aberrations of Nature
There’s no denying it: our boomer generation is turning out more grandparents every day. Baby boomer Renee Fisher has given grandparenthood a lot of thought, and wrote these observations about what she calls Grandparenthood, and Other Aberrations of Nature.
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