November has not been a good month for me emotionally. My Done Nesting site has stalled, like everything in my life seems to do sooner or later, due to a lack of funds. October is usually the difficult month for me, but this year it expanded into November. I will not let this be a […]
Sponsor Awareness at BlogHer 12
This is the Third in a Series of Topical Summaries about BlogHer 12 in New York Blogging about blogging may be a bit less of the navel gazer recursive exercise than it would at first glance seem to be. The publication industry is changing, and that change is strikingly apparent when I look back over […]
The Evolution of a Concept
Long ago at the turn of the century several people started to realize that there was something amiss in our culture with how people of our age – people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s – were perceived. I started a list at that time called late boomers and shortly after that started […]
Art, Angst & Zeitgeist
Our fearless, or perhaps foolish, editor once again manages to rant about interconnections among the strangest things. Kurosawa, current political zeitgeist and neurobiology. There’s no explaining it. Just read it. One shift in perspective, one single act, can change everything. Many folks apparently found this out for the first time on September 11th, 2001. Nothing I’m […]
Vinegar Visions: On the Bashing of Boomers, Joe Queenen, and Mid-life Crises
Being a Boomer is not about having a mid-life crisis. Joe Queenen apparently does not understand this. I’m sitting in a Borders Books drinking a regular coffee and not a decaf latte, thank you very much, and skimming through a copy of Balsamic Dreams, Joe’s most recent book. I refuse to even contemplate purchase of […]
The Women of Rock
While 70s music may be known for splintering off an incredibly diverse number of styles and interpretations of rock and roll, it should be known for the decade when women rockers came into their own. Well okay maybe recognition of them didn’t really happen until a bit later… but that is when late boomer women […]