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 […]
The Prototypic Baby Boomer Toots Her Own Horn
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 […]
Just Don't Call Me Late for Dinner
The ramblings of long ago about what to call us, we later born baby boomers, have lead to no concensus about what to call us. But there is an us. Wes convinced me that I was on the right track when he found enough value in the Late Boomer group to be a regular poster […]
Re-reading Pre-blog Era Blog Posts
As I re-post blog entries that were written almost 10 years ago, I am struck by how I still agree with myself. LOL. I researched the heck out of my early web writings on Late Boomers. Blogs now tend to be opinion pieces, and my early writings certainly contained opinions, but before the word blog […]
A Told You So Moment from the "ME" Generation
"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 […]
U.S. Late-Boomers are the Last Generation Living to Remember When Choice Became Legal
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 […]