Browsing All posts tagged under »baby boomers«

Letitia, Uncovered

April 6, 2012 by

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Back in 1999, a year that occurred in the last century, back before youtube, the iPod, and the no-contact jacket, my friend Susan and I decided to start a speed dating company.  We did this because: 1. We had no experience of starting a business of any kind 2. We had no experience of speed […]

Boomers rule. But you already knew that.

April 3, 2012 by

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Experts from the April 1 Aging in America Conference have announced that Baby Boomers will transform aging in America over the next decade. Moderator Ken Dychtwald, president and CEO of the consulting firm AgeWaveBy 2020, puts it bluntly: “Anyone who thinks [the boomers] will turn 65 and be the same as the generation before are missing […]

Sex and the Sixty (Year Old): Show Me Yours and I’ll Show You Mine

April 1, 2012 by

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The long and illustrious history of photography began many centuries before the first photograph was actually produced. Brilliant, creative minds like Chinese philosopher Mo Ti and Greek mathematicians Aristotle and Euclid described a pinhole camera in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. The first actual “modern” photograph of people,“Boulevard du Temple”, was taken by Louis […]

HEBBS: You Know Who You Are

March 31, 2012 by

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Be warned that there’s a new acronym on the street: HEBBS. This is not to be confused with Donald Hebbs (a Canadian psychologist), Bobby Hebbs (singer and songwriter of the hit song “Sunny”) or Hebb’s Auto Service in Halifax, NS. HEBBS, High-Earning Baby Boomers, are defined as Baby Boomers who live in households that have […]

The Aging of the High School Reunion

March 10, 2012 by

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Sometimes aging can make us feel like we are naked, smeared with bacon grease and deposited near a den of rabid grizzlies who have just completed a research project involving the effects of a prolonged vegan diet. While it might seem that there is no way out, know this: There is no way out.  OK, […]

Sex and the Sixty (Year Old) Pt 7

March 2, 2012 by

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My friend Susan is back, after a short hiatus from the world of online dating (“I am NEVER going to do this again, and you can’t make me”). I had my work cut out for me. I gave her a lot of reasons why she should jump back in (“You are a fabulous woman and you […]

Older Men, Younger Women: Fact or Unicorn?

February 28, 2012 by

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Way back in time, before most people had ever heard of Harold Camping or Denny’s Maple Bacon Sundae, I wrote a post titled  “The Myth of Older Men Wanting Younger Women.”   I didn’t intend it to be a tired diatribe of how men over a certain age want young babes. What surprised me was not […]

Middle Age vs The Middle Ages

February 22, 2012 by

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Many people nowadays confuse being middle aged with being in the Middle Ages.  They can be forgiven for a certain amount of confusion, since neither group of people had births recorded on iPhones and immediately posted on social media networks around the planet.  Neither group grew up with Tickle Me Elmo and Teenage Mutant Ninja […]

My GPS Has A Different Accent Than Yours

February 10, 2012 by

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(The following is the 11th in my series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” This one, though, was actually my first Freshly Pressed post, so a lot of people did see it.) I have a GPS […]

Dating After 50: Revealing Secrets. Or not.

February 9, 2012 by

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An overwhelming number of people who choose to enter the dating world after age 50 have already lived at least 50 years.  And, if they are like most people over 50 (and many people under,) some of their early choices in life, while not resulting in life in a maximum security prison, may have still […]