Kudos to Chatelaine and Dove soap for recognizing that all women are beautiful

Lynda Davis
June 7, 2019
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When I received the June/July 2019 issue of Chatelaine magazine in my mailbox this week I was a little taken aback—at first. Featured on the cover of the annual swimsuit issue (a cliché if there ever was one) is a full-bodied woman of indeterminate age wearing a coral-coloured swimsuit, a straw sunhat, and a huge smile. The more I thought about it and went through its pages, the bigger the smile grew on my own face. It takes courage for a major magazine to turn the tables on the media's…

Different covers were released in different areas.

Glory hallelujah! It’s road construction season again. Help wanted

Lynda Davis
June 3, 2019
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It's a common cliché here in Canada—we have only two seasons—winter and road construction. As I drive around the city and surrounding countryside I'm experiencing my annual surge of anger and frustration with the state of our transportation system. Once the snow melts, roads and highways are cordoned off, lanes reduced and then nothing happens. IF there's any activity on the site, two bored-looking workers are wandering around with a shovel in their hands but most often there's nothing going on. I realize road and highway maintenance and improvements are necessary…

Clear the track! I'll be dead before this @!#$%^& work gets finished.

My Queendom for a decent nightgown

Lynda Davis
May 17, 2019
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Am I the only person on the planet who still wears nightgowns rather than pyjamas? It's been more than two years since I've been able to rotate some of my old nighties out and replace them with new ones. The reason for this is not because I blew the budget on purses and shoes or that I haven't really tried. I've been scouring the department stores, lingerie boutiques, the internet and everywhere short of dumpsters looking for some new replacement nightgowns. Everything, everywhere is pyjamas, pyjamas, pyjamas. Shorties. Thermals. Dorm-wear.…

I'm running out of options.

If I’m ever in trouble with the law, I want Marie Henein on my case

Lynda Davis
May 14, 2019
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Marie Henein is my kinda gal broad lawyer. She's the powerhouse who got former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi off on sexual assault charges. And, she's in the news again leading Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's defence team. He's the Canadian military bigwig who according to a Globe and Mail article by Janice Dickson on March 6, 2019, "was suspended as the military’s second-in-command on Jan. 16, 2017, and charged last year with breach of trust for allegedly leaking government secrets in an attempt to influence cabinet’s decision on a $700-million shipbuilding…

My past is now officially an historical site

Lynda Davis
May 6, 2019
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You know you're old when the once-modern building where you landed your first job has been designated an historical site. On Monday, July 5th, 1965 I walked into the shiny marble lobby of the Maclean-Hunter Building at 481 University Avenue in Toronto to begin my first full-time job. Bell Canada leased space in the building and they'd hired me to start work as a clerk-typist, beginning the week after I finished high school. I was 17 years old and wore a pink and white gingham dress and new white high…

Do you “get” fashion magazines like Vogue or InStyle?

Lynda Davis
April 15, 2019
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I've added a new section to Boomerbroadcast called My Favourite Things to the menus at the top of the page. One of the subsections is Fashion Favourites which I intend to expand as I discover fashion items friendly to boomers. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I've also included Links I Like for blogs and Facebook sites for baby boomer women's fashion advice I enjoy following. There's such a dearth of inspiration out there for baby boomer women in the world of fashion, that we have to share…

Exactly who are they serving? I have no idea.