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An article in The New York Times Magazine titled Name Days on February 28th by Linda Kinstler, made a shocking revelation. Kinstler’s parents were Latvian immigrants and in order to ensure their daughter was easily accepted and assimilated into the American way of life, they decided to give her a thoroughly pronounceable, spellable, and American name—Linda. What is unusual and even shocking about this choice…
An article that once appeared in The Globe and Mail: How to buy a home for your adult children by Anna Sharratt has convinced me that, despite all the benefits of being a baby boomer, I’m beginning to think I was born a couple of generations too soon. We had to do it the hard way by going without material things and saving our money…
Please tell me I’m not the only person in the world these days who is finding it difficult to justify getting showered and dressed each day. By the time I have breakfast, then retreat to my La-Z-Girl to finish reading the paper and drinking my tea, it’s mid-morning. So, I casually pick up my iPad mini and tuck into the latest book I’m reading, which…
As we all know, our entire generation which came to be known as the Baby Boomers, was the result of all the soldiers coming home after World War 2 and starting families. They created the largest bulge of new babies in history. My own parents married and had me when they were both very young. My mother was only seventeen and my father, newly discharged…
Over the past few months I’ve been devouring so many books that I didn’t think you’d appreciate me posting a new book review several times a week. Being locked down with nothing to do other than read is pretty much my ideal life, my dream existence, but a steady diet of book reviews on BoomerBroadcast could get a bit tiresome. So, here are a few…
They’ve done it again. The giant Powerball lottery in the United States has once again risen to stratospheric proportions which has everyone storming the doors of neighbourhood variety stores to buy tickets. Even though increased ticket purchases diminishes the odds, who doesn’t want a chance to become a bazillionaire? Mega Millions rises to nearly $1 billion The jackpot prize for the Mega Millions lottery would…