Roxanne Jones blogs at Boomer Haiku, a mostly light-hearted, often irreverent look at life as a baby boomer, 17 syllables at a time. We’ve all seen ‘em: those “listicles” that impart wisdom (“All I Need to Know About Life…”) gleaned from dogs, cats, cows, the Easter bunny, toddlers and the like. Life lessons, it seems, …
Roxanne Jones blogs at BoomerHaiku. This post was originally featured there. Memories My 80-year-old mother-in-law came to live with Hubs and me for what turned out to be the last six months of her life in 2004. Pat had lost her husband the year before to complications from Alzheimer’s disease, and was in year eight …
Meryl Baer can be found writing about whatever she wants – from travel to food to friends and relatives – over at Six Decades and Counting. This post about Baby Boomer memories was originally featured there. Last week I attended a granddaughter’s graduation from preschool at a community center. Kindergarten here she comes! After the ceremony …
Last week I read a blog post, written by a Millennial, positing that Facebook is good for Baby Boomers because they can keep up with friends, but there is no need for us to bother with any other social network platforms. She reasons that Baby Boomers do not need Twitter because it is mostly news …
Twenty years is a long time for a generation. The first Baby Boomers born in 1946 were practically old enough to be the parents of the last Boomers born in 1964. Who could they possibly relate to the same pop culture? Tam Warner Minton posits that there are two kinds of Boomers: the “60s Boomers” …
