I cancelled my subscription to Vogue’s American edition several years ago because the content became so ridiculously irrelevant and nonsensical that it wasn’t even fun to make fun of it anymore. That’s why you haven’t seen my annual critique of the once-fabulous “September Issue” on BoomerBroadcast for a few years. I do, however, still get newsletters each week from Vogue U.K., which has turned out…
For several months now, I’ve had a draft blog about housing for aging boomers simmering away on the back burner of BoomerBroadcast , and a recent article in the Sunday New York Times titled Hanging On To This Old House prompted me to dust it off and share my thoughts on the issue. Then, I read a piece by Dave LeBlanc in the real estate section…
Whenever a new David Sedaris book of humorous essays lands in my inbox, it’s like Christmas morning for me. I can’t wait to park myself in my La-Z-girl, and settle in for hours of gentle reading with a smile on my face. His latest book, The Land and Its People, Essays, did not disappoint. Sedaris recounts everyday events and encounters with the people who cross…
Imagine a perfect world where it was unheard of for boys and men to pee standing up—spraying, dribbling, and otherwise sprinkling their scent around the room. Imagine if they all did it the proper way—the way girls and women do—sitting down. We’d all be able to walk into our bathrooms in our bare feet without screeching in horror as we tippy-toe aside and reach for…
We’ve all heard of Swedish death cleaning, which involves proactively clearing out a lifetime of clutter before we croak. Ideally, we want to spare our heirs the pain and inconvenience of disposing of the detritus of our lives after we’re gone. While leaving everything behind sounds like an easy way out for us boomers with too much crap, let’s face it, that would be really…
Online hackers and scammers may not destroy a life in the same sense that a murderer does, but the damage they inflict on innocent people is every bit as heinous. Within the past few months, four people in my orbit have been victimized, and it has turned their lives upside down. Someone I know was a victim of a romance scam that cost her in…
