My Year of Turning 50

First it was China! Now my ears! I think we need a new category, perhaps “Scary things about turning 50.” Today’s New York Times web site features an article on how we boomers are losing our hearing. (I wrote a version of this in 2000 for WebMD.com.) Perhaps the scariest thing about turning 50? All [...]

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We’ve been on Hilton Head Island this week, vacationing with our two daughters and staying near another couple and their kids (and grandparents). It’s been good, even if I did wake up one day to read in the local paper that my retirement depends on…China? Of all the things we baby boomers were told to [...]

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I love articles that make big bold generalizations, like this one in Time titled “What Gen Y Really Wants.” This piece manages not just to generalize about Y’s, but also X’s and us Baby Boomers. A triple threat! I’ve done my own version of this, in an article for the Poynter Institute titled “Meet the [...]

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This was a long, good day. It started with a trip to ABC’s orthodontist, and, yes, small mouths and big teeth are inherited. It ended with an afternoon and evening at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon, a water park, where more water fell from the sky for a while that was in the pools. (It did help [...]

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July 4th parade Originally uploaded by John Cutter.
I’ve come to like July 4th as one of my favorite holidays. We have an old-fashioned parade — old cars, horses, cops on motorcycles, candy thrown out to kids. Later, fireworks over the Lake — though this being Florida, [...]

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