Once upon a time I considered writing a book to pass along the wisdom I’ve acquired in 66 years of living and more than 40 years of working for a living. I roughed out a draft, gave it a title, “Broad Perspectives” (nice play on words, don’t you think?) took some creative writing courses including a great week-long mentoring programme at Humber College last summer,…
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Another look at the entitlement debate
One of my favourite times of the day is enjoying my second cup of tea while reading The #Globe & Mail’s essay on the Facts & Arguments page. And this morning’s “Nice work – if we can get it” by Braeden Banks did not disappoint. His honest, intelligent commentary on the reality of young graduates finding a job in today’s economy was a realistic response…
We had hope . . .
With the 50th anniversary of the death of President Kennedy approaching, I can hear all the Gen X’ers, Y’ers and Millenials moaning, “We don’t care that you can remember what you were doing when you heard that Kennedy had been shot.” Well, it changed our lives forever which is a fairly significant event. What if he’d lived? Think of the possibilities. Our lives might be…
Ooooh boy – back in my day . . .
The differences in parenting styles between how we Boomers were raised back in the olden days and the approaches by today’s young parents always makes for lively conversation. I can’t believe we’re actually saying things like, “Back when we were young,” but it truly is so very very different from today. I won’t detail all those differences here as most of us are now grandparents…
Preparing Part One of my 25-year plan
During my 40-odd years in the corporate world, I would periodically set goals for my professional and personal life. This helped me focus and move forward instead of just rolling along with the status quo. Now that I’m a 66-year-old retired Boomer Broad, setting goals requires a different set of metrics. Instead of “Be promoted to Vice-President by age 42″ or “Have mortgage paid off…
The age of entitlement
Call me insensitive but I wholeheartedly agree with Margaret Wente’s recent column in The Globe and Mail, “Student debt crisis? No, crisis in expectations” . I keep hearing how it’s different for young people today. They have huge student debts to pay off and no hope of getting a salary to take care of it, etc. etc. Let’s step back a bit and compare Apples…