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…
Last week, when I stood in the card aisle at the drug store picking out an appropriate Valentine’s Day card for my husband, I acknowledged a new reality in my life. My husband has dementia, and the routines of daily life are now a bit different from when we first came together. This year, I also picked out a Valentine—for myself—from him. Now that he…
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…
Anyone who has ever owned a pet understands the extreme grief we experience when a beloved pet reaches the end of the yellow brick road and crosses the rainbow bridge. It is agonizing. I’ve had dogs for most of my life. I grew up with yellow Labrador retrievers, although as a child I didn’t fully comprehend the positive impact those lovely creatures would have on…
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…
