In the interests of hospitality, we try to keep a generous assortment of cold beverages in our fridge for when visitors drop by. There is one drink, however, that never fails to elicit very particular preferences—Coca-Cola®. Most of our friends will drink any brand of wine or beer, but everyone has very specific tastes in that miracle beverage that in the good old days contained... Read More ..read more

There was a time a few years ago when I questioned whether as an aging boomer, I was getting too old for jeans. That short-lived brain-lapse soon evaporated when I realized that baby boomers were the heart and soul, the very essence of jeans culture and we deserve to be buried (or cremated depending on your preference) in our treasured, weathered, and finally soft, vintage... Read More ..read more

Having just spent an entire day on phone calls and chat lines attending to billing and maintenance issues with five different service providers, I am ready to slit my wrists. Trying to resolve issues with the telephone company, the gas company, our cellphone provider, our satellite radio service, and our home security provider, I was left feeling exhausted, angry, and frustrated that everything had to... Read More ..read more

Lyn Slater is a retired professor at Fordham University in New York, a former social worker, model, fashion icon, writer, social media influencer, and advocate for positive aging. She is also one of us— a baby boomer. After following Slater for years on Instagram and Facebook as the “Accidental Icon”, I was delighted to hear she was working on a book about aging so I... Read More ..read more

Are you still enjoying the internet? Does it still excite you the way it once did or has it become a chore, an onerous and exhausting exercise you devote countless hours to simply because it’s there demanding attention? Do you mourn those wasted hours on Instagram and Facebook absorbing useless information and following vague threads to a questionable end? I signed on to Substack last... Read More ..read more

Neil Sedaka was right. Any kind of breaking up is aways hard to do. By the time boomers reach retirement age, most of us have experienced at least one painful breakup. Many of us are veterans of multiple breakups. When it happens, we feel like we will never recover but inevitably we do. We put ourselves back together and often find someone else to love.... Read More ..read more

When I read three books in a row by the same author, then you can be assured I love her writing. After reading and reviewing her two diary-styled non-fiction books a couple of weeks ago (Went to London, Took The Dog and Love, Nina) I went looking for other books by Nina Stibbe and came upon the fictional One Day I Shall Astonish The World.... Read More ..read more

Not all of us get it but most of us do—that extra layer of fat distribution around the middle that accompanies menopause and turns our body from a feminine hourglass shape into a rectangle (me!), a pear, or an apple.  In my youth, when I was slim, I naively thought it would never happen to me but it did and I’ve been fighting a losing... Read More ..read more

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding is one of the few diaries I’ve had the opportunity to peek into (even though it was fictional), but reading the inside story of other people’s lives is probably why I enjoy memoirs and biographies so much. I’ve just finished reading Went To London, Took The Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway by British writer Nina Stibbe. While... Read More ..read more

Get a bunch of old boomers together and you will notice we are frequently called upon to complete each other’s sentences. Not only is it because we’re that in tune with one another but more importantly, we either can’t remember what we wanted to say, or we can’t remember an important name/fact/movie title/song relevant to the conversation. It’s like we have gaping moth holes in... Read More ..read more