Exploring the world, two boomers discover hidden charm in Chile
We love our boomer friends, the 6-Monthers, who write today for BoomerCafé about one of their unique travel destinations, in Chile.
If you’re a baby boomer and a parent, your kids most likely aren’t kids any more. And that’s what this touching, although sometimes scary, story by contributor Liz Kitchens is about: how we never really stop caring.
So which generation is more stressed than any other? Boomers? Millennials? We can all lay claim to stress, but BoomerCafé contributor Liz Kitchens sheds some light on who wins.
We like it when baby boomers help other baby boomers cope with life’s changes. BoomerCafé contributor Liz Kitchens has advice about coping by Exercising Your Creativity.
Unless you’ve moved around just about every year of your life, you’ve probably got a few things that feel like comfy old shoes. But a house? BoomerCafé contributor Liz Kitchens thinks so, as she writes in this essay which she calls, “Our House Is a Very, Very, Very Fine House.”
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.
As baby boomers, we’ve worked hard to develop a sense of community, and a sense of acceptance. But it never comes easily, and it doesn’t last without a little work. Liz Kitchens has written a piece about how she has kept it going in her life. It’s the Sisterhood of the Poker Group.
What do Lady Boomers have in common? According to Liz Kitchens, who surveyed them with BoomerCafé’s help, the answer is, Boomerangers! Check the results here.
People think they know who we boomers are. They think they understand us. But, how much does anyone really know? Liz Kitchens, who originally writes for BoomerCafé, wants to know more.
Baby boomer Liz Kitchens has written for us before, all about the joy of parenting her grown-up kids. But that was then; this is now. She’s not in the same mood any more. In fact, she says “Look out Baby, I’m in a Dangerous Mood!”
Are you an old enough boomer to face an empty nest? Or are you already missing the full one? Liz Kitchens might have figured a way to fill it again … at least from time to time. Call her technique “Labradoodle Love.”
Every generation begins as kids, then sires kids, then raises kids…and then needs its kids to take over. But not the boomer generation, not everybody. Liz Kitchens reflects on how differently she helps own grown kids today….from how her parents helped her.
Our kids might outgrow us, but we don’t seem to outgrow them. Liz Kitchens sure hadn’t outgrown her college-age son when he wanted to go to his university’s football game on New Years Day. In fact, as she writes in this piece for BoomerCafé, her devotion to her son resulted in a Purloined Pigskin.
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