Having a hard day? Is your husband pressuring you into trading sex for getting him to do something that needs doing around the house? Has your child just vomited on the floor, but you're so tired your ignoring the mess and hoping the dog eats it? Has your baby not slept in so long that you find yourself contemplating putting a shot of something in the sippy cup?

Well, how happy would you be to learn that you are SO not alone? Happy enough to slog through the depths of other peoples' misery to make yourself feel better?

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Confusion seems to be a perpetual state for me this week, and although I'm not really comfortable carrying so many conflicting thoughts around with me all at the same time, I figure it is a good sign that I'm staying flexible and open minded. Given my age and obstinacy it would be an easy thing to slip into a mindset like a pair of cement overshoes and reject out of hand any thoughts that don't dovetail conveniently with what is already well entrenched, so letting rampant... more

Have you ever heard of a woman named Kathleen Casey-Kirschling?

No?

Me, neither, until this caught my eye, but now the poor woman has me conjuring images of Godzilla in Tokyo.

You see, poor Kathleen has the dubious honor of having been identified as America's "First Baby Boomer", and she is someone to be feared. (Bwaaaa haaa haaa!)

Having been born one second after midnight on the 1st of January in... more

The corners around here are clogging up, so I'm taking some time today to sift through the geezer-related stuff for Sunday blog material.

Starting off with a shortage of silver, and I'm not talking hair here, as we have plenty of that, but rather the the anniversary that doesn't make it as often as many would like.

Turns out that more than half of the couples in the US that should have celebrated a 25th wedding... more

“Anita did more than run a successful ethical business: she was a pioneer of the whole concept of ethical and green consumerism,” Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth, wrote in The Evening Standard on Tuesday. “There are quite a few business people today who claim green credentials, but none came anywhere near Anita in terms of commitment and credibility.”

Again this week, like last, I find myself needing to laud a hero of the... more

Or, more accurately, do Boomers think Heaven is an option at the end of the trail?

According to an article in the latest edition of AARP Magazine, most Americans over fifty ... 73% ... believe in life after death, and 86% of those figure Heaven is a likely destination, even though only 70% would say the same about hell.

Although many in our generation looked askance at the Pearly Gates during our youth, something about passing the half-century mark has a lot of Boomers rethinking... more

Back in July I wrote about the finalists that had made it through the $10,000 award segment of the Purpose Prize, an award that honors older Americans working to solve social problems in creative and innovative ways.

This week, the winners were announced, five of them, each receiving $100,000.

Dr.... more

Feeling like the pressures of parenthood are mounting?

Tired of struggling to stay awake with a new infant night after night?

Need a break?

Well, if you are in Australia ... or ready to pack up for a trip down under ... you, too, can join other mothers at the new $8 million, five-star "mother's retreat" in the Lavender Bay area of Sydney.

For a mere $1300 (US... more

It's once again time to gather together all the bits I've been collecting over the past couple of days and put them into a catch-all post of hopefully interesting or helpful hints.

Starting with Dr. Joyce Brothers on older parents. She's in favor, and adds that: "Age has always been relative, but this is especially true today, when people often look and feel half their age, thanks to better health. If you look much older than other parents, that's not... more

Does the act of dropping to the floor cause a racket of clacking, pops and creaks not unlike a fierce game of mahjong on a three-legged table?

Is every dip of the hips accompanied by an exhale that sounds way too much like old Uncle Merv lowering himself into his Baralounger?

If once you've actually placed yourself on floor level, does the chance of remaining there for the rest of your days seem a definite possibility?

Yeah ... I know ... me, too.

One of the great things about being an older adoptive parent is the fact... more