Me: This decade ends the best of times and worst of times. Them: Did you just make that up, or are you finally going to admit to stealing from Charles Dickens? Me: Writers don’t steal, they borrow. Them: Like the time you borrowed a notebook from Payless in Pony Village?
SHORTHAND FOR OK BOOMER? OK, B
December 6, 2019 by
Can we finally stop the OK Boomer fun? What’s it been, a week, a month, ten years, since it first came out? Let’s clean it up a little, maybe cut a syllable to a simple “Ok, B.” Baby boomers don’t want to tax the time others take to say something as clever as “Ok, boomer.” […]
BOOMER LOCKDOWN: TALKING ‘BOUT MY GENERATION
September 16, 2019 by
The saying of ‘you get a better look at America from the outside’ has never been more true for the coming boomer lockdown. I’m on the outside, the France side, and I finally found the right look I’ve been searching for. What I see is the Eiffel Tower showing it’s dazzle, like the biggest continual […]
HOW TO ‘GROW UP AND GET OVER IT’
August 7, 2019 by
There are people and places that will hurt your feelings. Since my feelings have been hurt and I learned to grow up and get over it, I will share how that works. Learning to grow up isn’t something that comes and goes, not when new challenges require new ways to grow. I thought people a […]
DO BABY BOOMERS ASK FOR TOO MUCH
August 6, 2019 by
Depending on who you ask, baby boomers are either a blessing or a curse. Once we were the bundle of joy for parents coming back from The Big One, WWII. Their babies were the complete opposite of what had happened the past five years in Europe and the Pacific where injury and death were common. […]
PERSONAL IDENTITY BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA POST
July 19, 2019 by
Meeting new people who roll out their personal identity is a thrill when it works out. I’ve learned so much by listening. (No matter what people who know me say, I do listen, just not to them.) An American family tradition, maybe your family tradition, is being kind to strangers, of giving others the benefit […]
CHOICE MATTERS WHEN CHOOSING BREAD
May 23, 2019 by
Choice matters whether party planning around a main course of Vienna Sausage, cheese fondue, or cheesesteak. The right bread is of utmost importance. It can’t be too dense, too airy, too crusty, too mushy, too dark, too white, too seedy, not seedy enough. Bread has to be just right when choice matters, especially when you […]
BABY BOOMER ALERT: YOU’RE OLD AND YOU CAN’T HIDE IT ANYMORE
February 3, 2019 by
A question for readers in the baby boomer demographic: when did you realize you can’t hide your age? Was it when you first made a skin tent on the back of your hand? The first dark spot that looked just like the one you remember on your grandma’s arm? When you noticed something […]
WHAT SORT OF PARENT DID YOUR PARENTS WARN YOU ABOUT
December 19, 2018 by
Did you become the sort of parent your parents warned you about? Are you surprised? We had stern warnings growing up about kids from unsupervised homes, which meant anyone different than us. Those were houses we weren’t allowed to visit. It was supposed to be a vaccine against hard partying high school nights. […]
KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU, (UH HUH)
December 11, 2018 by
Knowing Me As a young child in an unsupervised moment one of my playmates decided to ride his trike. I hopped on the back axle where there was room to stand and gave him a big push. Except he pulled back on the handle bars just as I pushed and popped a wheelie […]
