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THE CARE AGE SANDWICH GENERATION

August 4, 2016 by

If elderly people depend on you, you’re in the Care Age. Ages come in different names defined by the dominant materials like the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. Epochs and eras all have names. If you find artifacts made in America before the explorers got here, they’re called Pre-contact, as if everything after early […]

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HOSPICE, A DANGLING CONVERSATION

May 26, 2016 by

The borders of our lives. Boomers have heard this more than once, others will hear it more later on: The closer people get to death, the more they drop their facade. There’s no one left to impress, no one left to pretend for, no one to juke. Toward the end it seems we get the […]

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BOOMER MOMS KNOW

March 6, 2016 by

If you love something, don’t set it free like boomer moms were set free. Boomer moms know all about love. Good love, bad love, boomer moms know the love cycle. First they were enchanted by the big strong men around them, the dads and uncles and neighbors. Then it was the young men who reminded […]

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BABY BOOMER DEATH MARCH

November 3, 2015 by

What Happens When That Music Starts? From the Washington Post: “In January, the CDC reported that an average of six people die every day because of alcohol poisoning and that 76 percent are ages 35 to 64. Three-quarters are men.” That party bus of life shifted gears when we weren’t looking. The baby boomer mantra […]

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MRS. DOUBTFIRE IN THE HOUSE

August 12, 2014 by

Robin Williams Lives In Every Boomer, so does Mrs. Doubtfire. I met my mother in law before Mrs. Doubtfire came out in 1993, but the shock of them being the same person never left. Robin Williams could have studied his part with her help. She’s from England, has a domestic science degree, and taught what […]

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