This is an open topic. Feel free to rant or wax poetic by adding a comment . Remember this is a Baby Boomer site, so please keep it on target... like, "I Hate you *&%*%* Baby Boomers!"

Also, be assured that we won't laugh and point(well we may), but anything that borders on tasteless or racist will be silently removed.

Hey there,
I just did a lecture that incorporated the baby boomer generation. I couldnt believe how interesting the topic was. Who knew that a single generation can change society so dramatically.

However, watch out because my generation, Gen. Y is taking over and we have three times the power that you guys and gals do.
thanks for the minute!

Knowing how busy, do we need to think about visiting people we know and don't know in assisted living and full-care facilities? (What goes around comes around). Or perhaps we won't want to be bothered with visitors, when we finally got some free time to ourselves--day in and day out, esp. with a computer and high-speed internet? :).

Hmmm, now ther's an interesting idea, Ruth. Frankly, I think they ought to have computers with AIM on them in every retirement home... (they will when I get there)... The beauty of a virtual world is that is knows no boundriens, like age, health and geography. The question is, will the grandkids block my screen name?

When we first heard the term baby boomer most of us were in Elementary school barely learning the basic needs for life. Now many of us are over 50 and wondering what the golden years will bring. If you read and believe the newspapers the economy is coming back and all is well. Yeah, Right! How many of us have lost jobs, have no insurance and work temp. or part time jobs just to keep a roof over our heads, let alone put money away for retirement. Social security and maybe a retirement of some sort, from some corp. we used to work at will keep us going? Not! Yes there are many of us that won't see the "Big American Dream" we were told about in our formative years. Any comments?

Right now, as a Baby Boomer, I'm just feeling a little discouraged that we haven't learned anything over time. It was only a few years ago, that during some tense posting between some anti-military folks and some Vietnam Vets, I said that one thing we can be very grateful for is that because of Vietnam and the lessons we took from it we didn't have to deal with sending our kids to fight doomed foreign wars. No matter how you felt about the original objectives of that war, at the very least, we learned from it. I'm eating those words now, of course. And there are rumblings about a draft, too. They say that people who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it, but what excuse do we have?

I'm at the tail end of the baby boomers, yet my dad is at the beginning. I'm writing a college paper on what the effects of being a baby bummer really means. Do you feel there are misunderstandings? What is the truth about being one of us? Who are we really? I'll check back to see comments.

I just got back from the library. The librarian, an outspoken evangelical Christian woman with whom I am friendly, asked why I was wearing a black armband. I told her that it was Inauguration Day, and I was mourning for the United States and the world.

"Do you think your little protest is going to change anything?" she asked.

I thought about this and replied, "It's like prayer; it might not change the president, the government or the world, but it changes me."

Doing some rearch...got a few questions.
What do you think baby boomer like to do the most... regarding...work, relaxing, hobbies?

I am New at putting a site together, but I have my own Style as to what I hope you all want to see. I am still crawling and here is my question

What exactly does a babyboomer want to see in a site? and how do I get all others to come visit me? Its a site filled with information about our era from 1950s-1960s-1970s please be so kind as to drop me a note or come by and see what i've done and leave a memory in the guest book.

Now a small note We are now approching the golden anniversary of the Mickey Mouse Club, can you believe it, its 50 years since we watched Annette and the mouseketeers with Jim Dodd(MC) Disneyland and Disney World are getting all done up for the special occasion, try to catch some of it on ABC Disney Channels or by getting there. In anyway become part of it , its history in the making.

We are designing a brochures to convey the attractions at an up and coming resort, we were wondering what items would be of interest to you, baby boomers?
I t will be in the Seattle Washington area, San Jau (if any are from there and what things they like)

Emailing responses would be nice but I can check back.

Thanks
Dave

Babyboomers are smart, we used ours heads not computers to figure out life. Generation Y wake up smartness comes from the mind and soul not a computer!! All babyboomers know the good life before the internet.

Babyboomers are smart, we used ours heads not computers to figure out life. Generation Y wake up smartness comes from the mind and soul not a computer!! All babyboomers know the good life before the internet.

In my opinion as a person inheriting the world from the baby boomers, it is all their fault. They grew the economy by selling junk to each other. They have all of their kids convinced that they can not live without a cell phone. I don't remember The Beaver having a cell phone. I saw the reruns. They have taken marketing to new heights of success. I am lead to believe that I need an SUV, Satellite radio & navigation, powered lift gate and dueling A/C zones. I won't even start on the environment. Hipsters? how about sellout hucksters? It should be renamed to the self-centered generation. That's it start a post to rename the baby boom generation, now that would be good use of the hipsters time.

Fuel Free the Fourth then Forward

I heard an interesting appeal on one of the network broadcasts one Sunday morning; then interestingly, I heard nothing else. A commentary on freeing ourselves of energy costs and stress as a nation on the Fourth of July this year. Imagine the statement that would make to the world! As a boomer, I somehow beleive that we could do it and further more reach an amazing amount of energy independence this decade. There are so many capabilites and resources amoung us, all we need is the spirit, so lets begin by doing what we Americans do best. Think, innovate, create, implement. Let's together, gather and circulate any idea's we might have and make some good things happen. One Tea Party for this country was apparently not enough.
So............. What about walking paths through subdivisions to commercial areas. Solar boats are already on the market, how about solar RV's, How bout, all government vehicles need be hybrid, Fleet cars, rental agencies, demand hybrid. How about somebody fund a study to help ordinary mechanics change our ordinary cars into hybrid. How bout the government take control of the 3% of the worlds energy that we own. And then, really outrageous, how bout nationalizing the oil companies. (Energy is necessary to our health and well being, at the marketplace and at home.) How about we invest in and support alternative energy studies, start ups, and corportions. How bout we encourage growth in areas where the climates are safe and arrid. How bout we invest in ethynol. How bout we suggest that the miniscule amount of funding by the oil companies in alternative energy sources is irresponsible and anti social. They seem to not have heard the sound of the wind, felt the heat of the sun, or moved by the current of the ocean.

Lets, keep doing what we as boomers know how to do, come up with the ideas and then make our elected representatives make it happen. So let's turn it around folks........A Fuel Free Fourth is a good start. Add some ideas, large, small, easy hard, outrageous, instant fuel savors, or just wishful thinking, and forward, forward to your friends, the oil companies, the Department of Energy and most of all those elected officials who have been feeding us their energy plan.

Forward!

Working on a smart, fun article on grandboomers who blog. Seeking real-life sources ages 45-65 nationwide who are grandparents and got into blogging. Why? How often do you blog? What do you write about? Does this help you keep in touch with family members - -how? Email julie@grandparents.com if you'd like to be part of this article. Kind thanks

Hello all--this is my first time here--love it! First of all, did all you Eagles lovers buy their new CD? It's great what they're doing--marketing it themselves--12 bucks for a double CD of quality music. They did not try to reinvent themselves--they did what they do best. BTW, the first week it was out Billboard had an article that the Eagles CD knocked Ms. Spears (worried about this young woman) out of No. 1. There was a big hullabaloo (remember that show?)because the Eagles sold their CD only at Walmart, Sam's Club and their own website. Many people were upset because they believe all the chart makers should be sold wide. I think it's as basic as the quantity of sales.
Second, anyone have info, comments, links etc regarding the TRIKKE? I am 54 and thinking of getting one, looks like great fun and great exercise. Any info is much appreciated.
Third, resources for starting my own website and finding advertisers to buy ad space.
Fourth and last (However, I am a compulsive question asker) new careers for seniors. Preferably one with some freedom of scheduling, casual, outdoors at least part of the time and possibly creative. Don't want much do I? Thanx all I'll be back-I love it here.

Hi Everyone!

I am a now, single Baby Boomer (nearly sixty - Wow!- who knew we would live so long!) and I want to know if anyone else out there would be interested in having dinner meetings in and around the Los Angeles, Ca. area on topics that would be near and dear to our hearts?

I have several topics in mind but I am always interested in new ones! I am able to contact "experts" in certain fields who could give us a great informative "talks" while we network, fellowship, become in involved with each other and of course EAT!

Some suggested topics could be, health issues, reverse mortgages, financial concerns, investments, anti-aging, long term care and insurance and of course fun stuff as well like tracking ones geneology and plotting the family tree (for the benifit now of the children and grand children) and of course getting to meet and know one another!

Write to me at marsha@marshahaywood.com and I will put you on my list and when I set up my first meetings I will let you know and we can all meet!

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Marsha

Being a baby boomer is wonderful - I don't own a cell phone or an I pod, or feel the need for either, My kids are in their fourties and know how to do it now. I think my wife still loves me, she needs and feeds me evan though I'm well past sixty four. What a great life.

Patti above mentioned how great it is The Eagles are still making wonderful music.
Along that line I saw two boomer age acts recently that are still fantastic, sounding good as ever. Steely Dan in Cincinnati earlier this summer, and John Hiatt recently here in Louisville. If you get the chance, check these guys out, if you haven't already.