There is a very good explanation for why I like to sleep so much. I was genetically engineered to need above-average amounts of sleep. When I was five years old, my mother had to enroll me in morning kindergarten so I could still nap in the afternoons, and the habit stuck. It was very difficult during my working years to convince my employers that I…
As if I don’t have enough insecurities already about my fashion choices, The New York Times columnist Alisha Haridisani Gupta has given me one more thing to keep me awake worrying at night. In her recent piece, Does Your Winter Scarf Make You Look Old? Gupta suggests that our choice of scarf can make or break the world’s perception of our fashion savoir faire. When…
Tempting as it may be to pat ourselves on the back for being Canadian, we are not immune to the toxicity on display in the United States these days. While Canadians take pride in our shared belief in taking care of and being kind to our fellow citizens, the political poison is too close for comfort. I am just a simple, retired old baby boomer,…
If you’re like me, you’ve probably been unsuccessful in reaching a real human being when you’ve tried to call any of your service providers. Whether it’s internet, TV streaming, telephone, utility companies, bank, or whatever, they have all embraced computerized bots that attempt to resolve our problems without giving us the option of speaking to a live person. The practice of being directed through the…
BoomerBroadcast is not my job; it’s a joyful retirement hobby, a labour of love where I share my opinions and observations on current issues of interest with my fellow baby boomers. Should I be concerned that my words will soon be meaningless as artificial intelligence overtakes great swaths of the written word and threatens to replace me as a blogger? AI is already used extensively…
