A light-hearted look at baby boomer lifestyle, fashion, current events, and more . . . .
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…
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…
I’m fed up with all the whinging and whining about the supposed lack of clarification surrounding the Stay At Home rules recently implemented by the Ontario Government. Listen, people. This is not about trying to find a loophole for a tax deduction in our income taxes. We don’t need to be parsing every nuance of the regulations for chinks or weaknesses in the wording that…
This week I broke with my usual habit of avoiding television news to watch history in the making. Wednesday, January 6, 2021 was a day of immeasurable shame and disgrace for the United States. The Republican party enabled this horror show over the last four years and is totally responsible. And, just when I was feeling rather sanctimonious about being a retired Canadian baby boomer…