Category: Best of Boomers
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December Holidays on the Minds of the Boomers This Week
I experienced the first snow of the season this weekend when visiting my Mom in Harrisburg, PA. It wasn’t a big storm, but enough to coat the world in white. A wonderful way to usher in the December holidays! This season often initiates memories of past holiday festivities… They still haunt Laurie. She catches glimpses of…
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Boomers Retreat as Winter Arrives and We Prepare for the Future
Politics is not usually a subject for this blog, but this year’s Presidential election affected folks deeply. Many of us have entered a period of mourning. Our candidate did not win. As a result we ponder an uncertain future and brace ourselves for a rocky road ahead. Winter is almost here, literally and metaphorically. I…
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Boomers on Food, Aging, Recovery, and More
It is a busy time of year – fall gardening and early holiday preparations, exciting sports games (Go Eagles! Go Mets! Go Yankees!), and the incessant bombardment of Election Day ads, news, and talk shows. But these goings-on have been background noise to my life for the past couple of weeks. I am recuperating from…
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Best Of Boomers Labor Day Edition
It is hard to believe summer is almost over. Not according to the calendar, but in the daily lives of folks I know. Grandkids head back to school, vacations end, summer residents pack up and move on. Hours of daylight contract, and oppressive humidity and 90-degree temperatures vanish. The holiday weekend ushered in perfect transitional…
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Fitness, Friends, Ghosting and more from the Best of Boomers
My Florida family traded the mid-summer oppressive heat and humidity of their home state for two weeks at the Jersey shore. This year they decided not to squeeze into my house – spacious enough for hub and me, but far from roomy for a family of five, including three teenagers, and visiting friends. They rented…
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Boomers on a new sport, the blessings of sons, summer safety, and more
Summer has arrived in my piece of paradise, and I am celebrating by playing hooky, avoiding chores and other tedious to-dos in favor of a few hours of backyard bliss. Our world is in turmoil and I need to decompress. I garden, read, and complete New York Times puzzles, a challenge in a positive way. If a…
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Nostalgia, Women’s Roles, and More from the Best of Boomers
What do you do when you are so tired you can barely keep your eyes open? The scenario: you have spent days awakened several times during the night, slept on a sofa instead of enfolded in a warm blanket in your comfy, spacious bed, popped up and down all day tending to an injured hub,…
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Boomers on Art, Critters, Clothes, and more
A round-trip drive to Long Island, NY has bracketed my weekends the past two months. Mom moved into an assisted living facility. My sister and I emptied her apartment and prepared it for sale. I typically avoid driving through Manhattan, the heart and soul of New York City, but Sunday I deviated from my normal…
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A Reality Show, Heart Health, Higher Food Prices, and more from the Boomers
A drive in, around, or through the New York metropolitan area can be a harrowing experience. There is no such thing as a traffic-free, no-hassle trip. Construction, traffic jams, and accidents all make the journey an adventure, and rarely a good one. Family matters found me visiting Long Island two weeks in a row, with…
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A Winter Round-Up from the Best of Boomers
I am home experiencing the cold, wet, windy weather. Not so happily. Hub and I spent two weeks in the ideal climate of Mexico’s Lake Chapala area, enjoying sunny days with temperatures in the 70’s. I was spoiled. No hats, gloves, coats, boots, and no shivering. Every day we took long walks through the town…