The older I get, the more I see how the changes that swept through middle America actually swept away an older culture that did not know how to preserve itself. That bygone culture is still very much a part of the culture I carry around with me.
Synchronicity Behind Life by the Cup
Several weeks ago I read a book review by Helene Cohen Bludman on her Books is Wonderful blog. I responded to the post by saying that Life by the Cup would be such a perfect read for me and that I wanted to read it and that I was going to “win” the giveaway she […]
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 […]
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 […]
Oh, Late Boomers are a cohort. What's a cohort?
Cohorts are self identified grops of individuals who are close enough in age to have shared and to identify with the same defining moments and events in their lives. The phrase “Baby Boomers” was coined well before most or all of us could self-identify as anything. The Baby Boom is not a cohort. It is […]