Tag: Rebecca Olkowski BabyBoomster.com
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AI, Intuition, Insomnia and More From the Boomers
Friends and family have always envied my sleep. I have had an uncanny ability to lay my head on a pillow and within minutes be in la-la land. Unfortunately, not recently. Perhaps it is hidden caffeine in summer drinks, or my mind that won’t stop agonizing over to-do’s not completed and tomorrow’s long list that…
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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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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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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…
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Mid-winter Musings on Aging, Getaways Forced and Planned, and more
Balmy weather greets me each morning as I venture outside my temporary residence in the resort town of Ajijic, Mexico. Each day begins cool, then warms to mid-70s sunny skies. My first post on my senior-style vacay is here. Glad to escape the frigid landscape back home, I do not look forward to donning sweaters,…
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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…