My Year of Turning 50

More random thoughts…I looked up my father and grandfather’s military records on Ancestry.com, which just added a bunch of military records. I couldn’t find dad’s — he signed up before World War II started, but I did find my grandfather’s from World War I…my newspaper today has an article about the last three surviving veterans [...]

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One thing I love about the Internet is how long things hang around. (Hey, if I never publish my book, at least my blog might last forever, somewhere on page 1,792,600,194 of a Google search on “turning 50 jokes,” which I suspect in the future will be like turning 30.) Anyway, found this column by [...]

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After writing my previous post on competition and the generations, I came upon a relevant post in the Washington Post’s On Balance blog by Leslie Morgan Steiner. (It’s a blog about work-life balance.) In the post, headlined “Spoiled Rotten (By Us),” Steiner quotes someone about workplace issues between boomers and so-called Millennials (those [...]

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I remember playing Little League — or more specifically, watching my pals play while I sat on the bench and waited until we were really ahead or really behind. In the kids sports of my youth, there was no batting around or “mercy” rule that ended games when the other team was killing you. (I [...]

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Saw this in my weekly e-mail from the Journalist Exchange on Aging:
IF YOU BLINKED MONDAY DURING THE “NBC Nightly News” you might have missed seeing MARY FURLONG, author of the new book “Turning Silver Into Gold: How to Profit in the New Boomer Marketplace” (New York City: Financial Times/Prentice Hall). Furlong’s [...]

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While poking around the Peace Corps web site, looking at some old news releases on the death of Julia Campbell, I saw this news release that mentions a push to get more baby boomers into the Peace Corps. An article about the trip, by veteran age beat writer Marsha King in the Seattle Times, says:
The [...]

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I found this today while trolling for some more turning 50 jokes to share:
They say that if something bothers you, you should think of it ina new way. So don’t think of it as 50 years…Think of it as 5/7 of the normal human lifespan.
Not that’s depressing.
Actually, life expectancy is usually given from birth, which [...]

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More random thoughts…went to dentist today because I lost a post and crown. I swear I heard him upgrading his vacation plans after looking in my mouth…my first dentist used to see patients in a room off his living room, in a crappy apartment across from the projects where I grew up in the Inwood [...]

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I talked recently with a 20-something and during our lunch he mentioned how some teachers often told war stories, sometimes literally, about their time as young journalists. Is that a baby boomer pre-occupation — that we illustrate any point with a story from our youth — when I was a kid, when I was in [...]

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One of the things about baby boomers is we can be the same age but at such different points in our life cycle. On my short, dead-end street are four homes, all with (I think) boomer owners. Three, however, are empty nesters, but we have a 7-year-old, as well as a college freshman. Now that [...]

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