Tag: boomer life
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Farewell to Amusement Parks
Confession: I love my kids and grandkids but cannot keep up with them. Cold winter days have become a pleasurable season as I hunker under my quilt and don’t feel any guilt, steeped in a good book or TV series. Summer is jam-packed with physical activities synonymous with heat, ice cream, water, playdays, vacay days, outdoorsy…
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Delightful Diversions in Troubled Times
Skip to the third paragraph (after italics) to avoid my current events rant. The world is a scary place now, but the world is scary someplace all the time. For those of us living in the United States, we have been blessed with minimal upheaval throughout our lives. But our world grows scarier day by…
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Cooking and Procrastination – A Delightful Duo
I like to cook, but am not a gourmet chef. I cook because I like to eat, enjoy food, and prefer non-chemical, unprocessed fare. I occasionally try new recipes, but as I age rely more and more on old – maybe not quite as old as me, but old enough – favorites. Too many ingredients,…
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The Word of the Week is Change
I spent a couple of days in the town where I lived for over 30 years, the place my kids grew up in, where I worked, made friends, purchased a home, volunteered, and kept up with local news. I caught up on the lives of old friends, their kids, and grandkids. We all look older,…
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Musings on Change that Happens Whether I Like It or Not
Change happens, whether wanted or not, whether instigated or by happenstance. I accept change, sometimes applaud it, at times reluctantly endure it. Rarely do I oppose change. Until the past year. I won’t mention political change; that is a discussion for another post. Or an entire book. I am not discussing personal change, such as…
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Boomers Report from Foreign Shores and the Home Front
Spring beckons me outdoors to plant colorful flowers in my yard. I purchased a couple of flats of promising peonies, pansies, marigolds, and others I cannot remember offhand. I rooted some in pots, and the rest directly into the earth. But then I had to leave home for a few days. Of course it did…
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Neighborhood Cafe Coffee Klatch
Confession: I like to exercise outdoors, but only when the weather cooperates. I am a temperate climate outdoor person, which means moderation – 50s through the very low 80s – low humidity, sun or partly cloudy, and minimal wind and precipitation. Cold, wet weather and I remain indoors. My husband has physical therapy two or…
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Dining Out Without a Coupon
Cleaning out a kitchen drawer one day I came upon a coupon to a local restaurant. I recalled purchasing it online a few months back. It happened to be winter when I bought the coupon. Going out at night in cold, dark, nasty weather when not necessary does not appeal, so when I received the…
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A Grandma and Granddaughter Journey
The sun shines 6 am to 6 pm along the equator. Days seem very long for a 70+-year-old grandma traveling with her 13-year-old granddaughter. The duo toured the jungles of Ecuador and the islands of the Galapagos together, a once-in-a-lifetime journey for the senior, and an eye-opening adventure for the teenager. Grandma was not in…
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Boomer Breakouts and Home Predicaments
Travel can be fun, exhilarating, enlightening, magical…and exhausting. I returned this week from a week-long vacation with my 13-year-old granddaughter. Keeping up with a teenager 24/7 wore me out! But for me it was a trip of a lifetime – we traveled to the jungles of Ecuador and the Galapagos islands – and provided lifetime…