My Decade of Turning 50

The majority of people who end up on this blog come by searching Google for turning 50 jokes. Every so often, I like to prowl around myself and look for old new ones (or is that new old ones) on the Internet. Through Boomer Chronicles blog, I stumbled upon Boomer Jokes. Seems to be a [...]

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I wonder what it would be like to be turning 50 years old on Halloween? With all the attention to Halloween these days, it could be one fun party. (I was watching a news report tonight on a costume contest at a local “active adult” community, and the couple who won were dressed as sheep, [...]

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Just watched the end of Vertigo and that scream and the bells get me every time, even when I know they are coming…more things from 1967, Chick-Fil-A was founded and the Supreme Court struck down laws that barred inter-racial marriage…more signs of the boomer apocalypse: heard on NPR today that there will soon be a [...]

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I helped cover the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis yesterday, blogging here and shooting some video here. It’s hard not to get enthusiastic when you see something like a rocket launch. I feel as excited at it now as I did as a kid, when they would stop class to let us watch the [...]

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It’s the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love, a year when those of us who are turning 50 were a mere 10 years old. I don’t have a lot of specific memories of that summer — baseball was big, I recall, and I probably was in day camp. We didn’t go anywhere in the [...]

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Update at 8:50 p.m: Back with no broken bones but a few sore limbs. ABC and I are going roller skating tonight — a passion she developed at a friend’s 7th-birthday party at the rink this past weekend. But when I was reading Al’s Morning Meeting, a journalism tip sheet from the Poynter Institute today, [...]

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Update from today (4/25): Catholic officials say ‘crying’ Mary statue phenomenon is natural I was surprised a bit by my reaction today to a report on a local Orlando TV station that a replica of Michelangelo’s Pieta appeared to be shedding tears. (See some of our photos here.) I have faith enough that there are [...]

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Looking for new sneakers yesterday, and I was transported back to the 1960s. I tried on a pair of black Converse high-tops, the kind I spent a large part of my youth in. Back then, in New York City where I grew up, they were not a fashion statement. They were just a sneaker. The [...]

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