As I move into the over-60 decade, I've been thinking a lot about the quality of my days, consequences of my decisions and a legacy, no matter how modest. For those who think that 60 is the new 40, I say that's denial at its best. I ran across a quote from Nietzsche recently that I'd make into a refrigerator magnet if I could, "The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have improved."

So, given a realistic timeline for those of us of Boomer age, which do you think makes for a better philosophy? To live as if this was your last day on earth or to live as if you're immortal? What works for you?

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Two Books That Have Nothing to do With Boomers - Saturday, April 1, 2006
I'm getting a strong dose of Genx lit these days...and I'm loving it. Even if you hardly actually know any 30-somethings and your kids are too young and you're too old, "Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing...

Boomers Have More Fun - Saturday, April 7, 2007
According to a survey by the Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University, Boomers have more fun and better music than generations on either side of us. OK, we may not be the most generous, but 44% of respondents said...

A Boomer on Boomers - Thursday, January 29, 2009
We've enjoyed Michael Winerip's Parenting column in the New York Times, mainly because his kids are relatively close in age to ours, so we were sad to see it end. But wait! He's back! And now he's writing about...well...hmm....baby boomers....

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At 62, Meryl Streep is the oldest woman to ever grace the cover of Vogue Magazine. It's about damn time, doncha think?

See the article on Jezebel.com.

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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 thing that happened to you was 30 or 40 years ago, it's time to wake up. Americans are known for great second acts; have you re-invented yourself and, if so, how?

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Call Me Anything, Just Don't Call Me Conservative - Sunday, January 23, 2005
Are we getting more conservative as we get older? Will I start turning up my nose at radical music, radical lifestyles, radical politics, and alternative mindsets just because I'm getting old? Yes, according to this well-written opinion piece in the...

You Can Call Me Al: Baby Boomer Names - Thursday, July 5, 2007
In our never-ending quest to find ways to waste time, we offer this from the Social Security Administration. Pick a year and see the most popular baby names for that year. So, how many Susans were in your homeroom?...

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The young hipsters who read Salon don't find this humor piece amusing. They will some day. Heh.

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Middle Aged Driving - Thursday, January 22, 2009
by Kelly Jackson How midlife driving differs: I live in a neighborhood of blue-haired drivers, and I'm beginning to understand them. This is both dangerous and frightening. Back in the day, when I found myself going 20 in a 35...

Two Books That Have Nothing to do With Boomers - Saturday, April 1, 2006
I'm getting a strong dose of Genx lit these days...and I'm loving it. Even if you hardly actually know any 30-somethings and your kids are too young and you're too old, "Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing...

Boomers Have More Fun - Saturday, April 7, 2007
According to a survey by the Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University, Boomers have more fun and better music than generations on either side of us. OK, we may not be the most generous, but 44% of respondents said...

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The Day He Knew Would Come, by Andre Aciman in the New York Times.

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College Redux - Tuesday, April 4, 2006
A recent article by Lisa Belkin in the New York Times Magazine offered a retirement solution I hadn't thought of--I can go back to live at college! In efforts to stop mass boomer migration and to provide us with...

But I Don't Feel Good!--Boomers' Health - Thursday, June 7, 2007
I thought it was just me. But John Tierney, who writes for the New York Times, Science Times, describes research showing that Boomers report more problems with their health than older generations did when they were in their fifties. Are...

Why Boomers Acting Like They're 25 May Not Be So Bad - Sunday, December 17, 2006
Every year the New York Times Magazine puts out their Year in Ideas issue and one of the entries should appeal to (and explain) some of us. Psychological neoteny or, 'the retention of youthful attitudes and behaviors into later adulthood,"...

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...to rock and roll. DJ Mamy Rock rocks on!

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Do Boomers Still Dig Rock & Roll Music? What's on Your iPod? - Friday, December 1, 2006

Real Boomer Music - Monday, February 27, 2006
A friend turned us on to this great internet radio, Wolfgang's Vault. æThis is material from over 7,000 concerts that Bill Graham produced and recorded in his lifetime. Some incredible gems in rotation, not to mention pictures and memorabilia....

Baby Boomer Hits - Thursday, August 21, 2008
I found this on Shabby Pink Scrapper a site that doesn't have much to do with boomers. I know, I know, they're a little corny, but funny nonetheless. If you can think of more, send 'em along. Baby Boomer Song...

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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 hired elsewhere. Some of those interviewed had lost everything--used up their savings, lost their homes. Watching an ex-mid-level executive picking through garbage for recyclables to sell was close to unbearable. You can see the segment here--watch at the risk of your own mental health. Me--I was looking for the nearest iceberg to float away on.

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Are Boomers Unemployable? - Monday, September 20, 2010
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--- being set adrift on an...

Unemployed Baby Boomers discovered it's ugly out there - Thursday, June 19, 2003
By Brian Bergstein AP Business Writer From Sun-Sentinel.com NEW YORK -- Mary Jones Pelt got the bad news a year ago. She had worked in accounts receivable at Boar's Head Provisions Co. Inc. for 17 years, but the maker of...

Boomers Have More Fun - Saturday, April 7, 2007
According to a survey by the Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University, Boomers have more fun and better music than generations on either side of us. OK, we may not be the most generous, but 44% of respondents said...

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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 late '60s will be relatively less receptive to the dominant social change-directed thrusts of the day, and in that sense more moderate or conservative."

I can report, albeit from anecdotal evidence, that many of my friends from college are indeed moderate to the point of conservative, especially fiscally. While I don't want to move to a commune any time soon, I'd like to think I maintain some of the idealism and impulse to activism I started with.

How far toward the right have you moved?

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I Don't Heart Huckabee - Wednesday, February 20, 2008
I have a problem with Mike Huckabee and everyone who supports him. My other half is tired of hearing about it--'tiresome' he called me, 'paranoid' I believe was mentioned once or twice. I think the latter was invoked when I...

The Summer of Love East Coast Style: Boomer Memories - Saturday, June 30, 2007
My mother once said, after hearing I had waited on line two days for Rolling Stones tickets, "Someday this will embarrass you." What she meant, I suppose, was that someday almost everything we thought, felt, or did back then would...

Silliness in Serious Times - Wednesday, October 20, 2004
A good antidote to having way too much work to do is to waste serious amounts of time doing frivolous things on the web. My current favorite is Comedy Central's Indecision 2004, where you can do fun stuff like generate...

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