Using a bread machine to bake bread is as easy as ordering books on Amazon. You simply toss your ingredients into the bin and press “Start” or in the case of Amazon, “Place Order”. I’m not like my friend Terry who spends two days baking wonderful sourdough or walnut bread from a homemade starter. While I admire her creativity and her stamina, I’m not that…
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We’ve come a long way baby boomers!
On Sunday, July 4, 1965, exactly fifty-six years ago this weekend, this boomer left home at the age of seventeen. For good. Faced with another year in high school to do grade thirteen and dreading the prospect, unknown to my parents I had written letters a couple of months earlier to The Bell Telephone Company of Canada (as it was called then) and Ontario Hydro…
Desperately seeking Jenna Lyons. I need your help
Dear Jenna Lyons: After following your impressive career at J. Crew until you left in 2017, I was delighted to find your reality television show Styling With Jenna on HBO this past winter. I love your irreverent fashion sense and even though you’re over six feet tall and slim, which I most definitely am not, I try to tap into your styling savvy to create…
Be honest. Are you giving your toenails the attention they need these days?
In 1967, when I was twenty years old and on my way to Europe to max-out my Eurail pass, I stayed briefly in Folkestone, England on the white cliffs of Dover with a great-aunt, my grandmother’s sister. She was seventy-five at the time, only two years older than the age I am now. I remember how shocked I was to learn that she had to…
Monty Python’s John Cleese shows us an easier way to unleash our creativity
A few years ago I read The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, which was considered the benchmark for understanding and releasing your creativity. It’s a brilliant book with an abundance of suggestions and inspiration for uncovering and channelling your creative energy. Cameron encourages us to spend a few minutes each day hand-writing in a notebook our “Morning Pages”—daily thoughts and random mental meanderings designed to help…
Hip hip hooray! BoomerBroadcast is back on the air!
Did you miss me? It’s been more than a month since I last posted on BoomerBroadcast but I have a good excuse. In mid-April, I underwent emergency surgery for a fractured hip. Considering the current restrictions on surgeries under COVID, I was lucky to be taken care of as quickly as I was. About fifteen years ago, I had both hips replaced, a year apart….
