The perils and pleasures of being a helicopter pet parent

Lynda Davis
April 29, 2019
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This is really embarrassing to admit but the other day my honey and I had an actual disagreement about the intelligence of our dog, a 3½ pound 7-year-old female Yorkie called Sassy. I truly dislike the name she came with but she'd been named when we got her. She'd been returned by her previous owners who found her energy level unsuitable. I like a name that denotes gender and one that's easy to yell so I wanted 'Stella' (think Streetcar Named Desire). He couldn't come up with anything better that…

Chelsea Handler is getting ready for love

Lynda Davis
April 26, 2019
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The election of Donald Trump in 2016 affected comedienne, writer and late-night talk show host Chelsea Handler so profoundly she altered her entire life to cope with the implications. If you've ever watched her late night show Chelsea Lately, listened to her standup routine or read any of her books, you'll know Handler is smart, beautiful, opinionated and abrasive. Turning forty and the election of Trump forced her to address an inner turmoil that she'd been ignoring her entire life. She suddenly realized that America and herself in particular were…

What’s on your summer reading list?

Lynda Davis
April 22, 2019
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Best-selling author Jennifer Weiner's recent Op-Ed piece What's Your Favorite Book? in The New York Times questioned the validity of criticizing other people's choices in reading material. In particular, she was disappointed that Stephen Colbert made fun of the so-called bodice-ripper books by Georgia politician Stacey Abrams written under the name Selena Montgomery. When asked what book U.S. presidential candidate Mark Buttigieg would take if stranded on a desert island he named James Joyce's Ulysses. Whether he was sincere or just showing off is moot because according to Weiner whatever we…

The Music Shop is run by a peculiar man on a street of peculiar people

Lynda Davis
April 18, 2019
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The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce is a quirky little story with a quirky little cast of lovably, eccentric characters. One of the reasons I love British authors (and British television shows) is their absolute mastery of understatement and irony. I adored Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine for the same reason. Rachel Joyce also wrote The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry which I must now add to my list of books to read. A good writer can turn the most mundane everyday events into something you become immersed in and…

Do you “get” fashion magazines like Vogue or InStyle?

Lynda Davis
April 15, 2019
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I've added a new section to Boomerbroadcast called My Favourite Things to the menus at the top of the page. One of the subsections is Fashion Favourites which I intend to expand as I discover fashion items friendly to boomers. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I've also included Links I Like for blogs and Facebook sites for baby boomer women's fashion advice I enjoy following. There's such a dearth of inspiration out there for baby boomer women in the world of fashion, that we have to share…

Who was the woman in Hitler’s bathtub and how did she get there?

Lynda Davis
April 11, 2019
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Elizabeth "Lee" Miller was a fascinating woman and I love books about fascinating women. The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer describing the life of Lee Miller in the city of light is such a book. Miller's glory days were spent in Paris between the wars when she was the lover, muse and assistant to the famous artist and photographer Man Ray. In a classic tale of servant becoming the master, the author takes us on a fictional journey based on Miller's real life—historical fiction, my favourite genre. Lee Miller was born…