My Decade of Turning 50

Just took a long walk — ABC and TB are at a birthday party, so Louie and I exercised. Felt good, especially since this time of year is the best here in Florida — warm but not too muggy yet. I am home now and looking around the Internet, thinking about boomers and my birth [...]

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Been away from blogging for a bit, since the beautiful sunset over Lake Dora. I’ve even thought of giving it up — too busy, I’m too boring, too busy. But I think I also stopped posting after my initial surge because focusing on my age made me, well, focus on my age. After another 12-plus [...]

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Since I chased the moon in a previous post, I decided to chase the sunset today. ABC and I spent the late afternoon along Lake Dora near our home, she riding her bike, me running beside her, then together a hike along a walkway and path through a pine forest on the edge of the [...]

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Went to the movies today, not to see Wild Hogs, which was a good thing since it was sold out — for the third time today at our local theater. Just saw on CNN.com that the movie is No. 1, with an estimated $38-million at the box office. Not bad for a movie that stars [...]

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ABC and I saw one of those amazingly large moons on the horizon tonight, just after moonrise, the kind that appear to fill the sky. By the time we got home, the moon had risen in the sky, returning to just the same old moon. (The big one, I assume, was an optical illusion, light [...]

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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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It is Saturday morning — actually, by the time I post this it will be past noon. I slept long and late. My schedule recently changed so that I need to be to work by 6 a.m., so I leave my house at 5:15 a.m. I try to get to sleep by 9:30 on work [...]

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Been busy at home and work so been away from my new-born blog. I was prompted to come drop a note after reading through the New York Times today. On the back page of the arts section was an ad for “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss, noting that the book was written [...]

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Good column today on Boston.com — “Generation Obama vs. the Boomers” …like other recent pieces, it points out that although Barack Obama is technically a boomer, his presidential campaign appears to be setting itself up as different from older baby boomers. (The piece is a riff on this Boston Globe article, which calls Obama a [...]

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The first baby boomers starting turning 50 in 1996. I was working for the St. Petersburg Times, and we were looking for a way to tell that story. I chose to talk to one person — someone born on Jan. 1, 1946 — to see how her experience would confirm (or contradict) the stereotypes of [...]

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