Blogging & Writing

I’m reclaiming my authority on this topic.  (Yes, you are allowed to have Cartman echoing in your head, "Respect my authority!")  The last half of the baby boom needs me.   Well they wanted to call us the "me generation" so I might as well act like I have a super huge ego.  Seriously,  I ranted […]

I found a great article this morning!  Turns out the early boomers, at least some of them,feel they too were misclassified.  I’m primarily interested in the description of musicians who were not boomers being used as iconographic images of the Baby Boom.  Most of the musicians associated with the Hippie, free love, free sex, anti-establishment […]

Different times require different thoughts and actions.   Friends, as I am sure you know, we are headed into very different times. Many say we are headed toward very difficult times as we face: global warming.  fundamentalist frictions,  a world wide health crisis,  over exploitation of dwindling resources, economic clashes between the very few rich and […]

"Boomer volunteerism has increased during the past few decades. The volunteer rate for young boomers, ages 46 to 57, is 30.9 percent, significantly higher than the 25.3 percent recorded by the same age group in 1974 and the 23.2 percent recorded in 1989." — PittsburghLive.com So how do you like them apples? Looks like we […]

As a Late Boomer I’m telling my story. This post  is cross-posted from my blog,  Build Peace,  which is participating in a blog carnival today organized by two Hoosier-based blogs, What Tami Said and Shakesville in support of Planned Parenthood which,  as you know, is under siege from Right Wing extremists.  Check out the Blog […]