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Just got a tickler from PBS on their series Life (Part 2) which premiers nationwide on September 13. (check local listings.)  It is a series aimed at us — the 78 million plus boomers.  The series explores how we dealing with aging [me?...not so well!  LOL)] and how we are going to have to overcome the societal, physical [...]

What could be better on a Friday night than slipping off my shoes, sipping a glass of rich red wine, munching on bits of cheese and chocolate and…listening to the newly released “Still Unforgettable”, a just lovely album by Natalie Cole. The eight-time Grammy winner, who has recently revealed her battles with Hepatitis C, has [...]

Yesterday I had the pleasure of interviewing Gail Rentsch about her new book, “Smarter Women Don’t Retire—They Break Free: From Working Full-Time to Living Full-Time through my Careers group on Eons.com. It was a novel idea, lots of fun, and if you missed it, head over to the Q&A and get a feel for [...]

I’ve got some book reviews coming your way, but in case you want to get a head start on your mid-summer line up, here’s one for the boys…Bob Morris’ ASSISTED LOVING True Tales of Double Dating With My Dad (HarperCollins June 2008)What would you do if your eighty-year-old father dragged you into his hell-bent [...]

Last week I received a media preview of a comprehensive new monster report that has just been released today, by the Institute of Medicine. The report warns of a looming crisis regarding our aging population and health care inadequacies. And it isn’t that we don’t already know most of this in general. However, the numbers [...]

Canadian media mastermind, Moses Znaimer (if you are Canadian, you’ll definitely know who he is, and if you are not, then keep your ears open…because you will…) has recently taken over as executive director of CARP (the Canadian version of AARP) and is shaking things up…in a positive way. Just as he reinvented the [...]

In my twenties, I was fearless. There was no risk too great to take. I travelled to different countries, visited every nook and cranny in Canada and the US that I could afford to travel to. Took jobs for $150/week so that I could break into a new industry, stayed up all [...]

I love, love, love this time of year. The air is crisp in California, life simultaneously speeds up and slows down over the week between Christmas and New Year’s, and just like “spring clean”, I go through a “year-end clean up.”Going through some old magazines, I pulled out one that had an intriguing article that [...]

TIAA-Cref Crafts Boomer Social Networking Site
Article published on Dec 19, 2007
By Hannah Glover
TIAA-Cref hopes to make a connection with its baby boomer clients by encouraging its retirement plan participants to make connections with each other.In February, the firm plans to invite 20,000 customers over the age of 50 to participate in a social [...]

The always fascinating Baby Boomer Chronicles is this week’s host to the Blogging Boomers Carnival — chock full of interesting, insightful and sometimes insufferable boomer insights of the week! And on a side note spaces are filling for the Gen Plus Town Hall in LA on January 22nd — if you aren’t working, looking [...]