Boomer Women--Too Late for Estrogen?
Just when I thought I was ready to break down and try hormone replacement therapy, I read this article in the NY Times Magazine. It seems that, with the exception of boomer women on the younger edge of...
View ArticlePredicting Alzheimer's: In Time for Baby Boomers?
If, like me, you tend to worry neurotically about the perils of old-age, especially Alzheimer's Disease, the news about new early testing for Alzheimer's will either cheer you or terrify you. Spinal...
View ArticleWake-Up Call
I was reading something or other about whatever and remembering some of my life's high points. Then I realized that some of them (but most definitely not all) were decades ago. If the last amazing...
View ArticleBoomer Parents Did Good
According to this article on the Huffington Post, Millennials--our kids, in other words--"study harder and more often, engage in more community service, participate in greater numbers of...
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View ArticleSocial Security and Baby Boomers
While probably not cause for immediate hysteria, possible changes in Social Security could effect Boomers. The NY Times has a good overview of potential Social Security scenarios....
View ArticleAre Boomers Unemployable?
Well, this article in the NY Times positing that the unemployed over 50 may never find work again was just what we wanted to read over morning coffee. It makes me think about other alternatives---...
View ArticleKingKennedy
We were alerted to this documentary by a friend of AgingHipsters on Facebook. Here's what we know: KINGKENNEDY is a unique feature film that tells the story of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy and...
View ArticleAre Yesterday's Hippies Today's Conservatives?
The NY Times had a wonderful section of articles from 40 years of the Op-Ed section. In 1971, an op-ed article predicted that, once out of college and into the 'real world,' "the college cohort of the...
View ArticleThere's an App for That
The young hipsters who read Salon don't find this humor piece amusing. They will some day. Heh....
View ArticleBad News for Unemployed Boomers
Last night's 60 Minutes episode about unemployment was a bitter pill for Boomers. We are the segment of the unemployed who are unemployed the longest--most likely to be laid off and least likely to be...
View ArticleAre We There Yet?
The Day He Knew Would Come, by Andre Aciman in the New York Times....
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