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Looking back 50 years at Dr. King envisioning The Dream 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
There have been few if any events in our lives as baby boomers with as much positive impact as a single speech, on a single day, fifty years ago. BoomerCafé publisher and co-founder David Henderson .....
The passing of a parent is one of those life events many boomers share 26 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Barbara Keene, a fellow this year with the National Writing Project, has a story to tell, and as our generation gets older, it’s a story so many of us have lived ourselves. This first grade teacher,.....
Buster Brown, the shoes many boomers grew up wearing, is having a birthday 24 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Buster Brown Shoes – the popular shoes of many baby boomers and other generations – is cranking up for their big 110th birthday in 2014. The shoes were “born” at the St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904....
The city of Falls Church, VA, itself is a “baby boomer” community 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
We think this story from Virginia’s Falls Church News-Express is kind of cool … because as it turns out, Falls Church, like us, is a baby boomer! By Nicholas F. Benton of the Falls Church News-Pres.....
Navigating memory with the aging baby boomer brain 22 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
As you become an ever-older baby boomer, do you ever feel like you are Navigating The Road To Nowhere. As BoomerCafé contributor Renee Fisher wrote in HuffPost50 … it’s happening more … and more … a.....
How bigger-than-life icons shaped the boomer generation 21 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
BoomerCafe’s Poet-In-Residence, Harriet Shenkman, has written this month about our past … and the icons who shaped us. This poem is called Fourth Date Reconsidered. Audrey Hepburn in the film, Brea.....
Are we too obsessed with ourselves? Acclaimed journalist Mort Rosenblum says, maybe so. 19 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
A baby boomer and premier journalist looks at the world through the span of his working life, and it isn’t always pretty. Mort Rosenblum was a longtime special foreign correspondent for the Associated...
TV news veteran Greg Dobbs looks at the bloody chaos in Egypt 17 Aug 2013 | 01:30 pm
BoomerCafé.com co-founder and executive editor Greg Dobbs spent much of his career as an ABC Network News foreign correspondent covering the Middle East and shares this perspective on recent fightin.....
Two baby boomer adventurers explore a new country and learn a new culture 15 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
For the last six months, we’ve had fun bringing you news from the Six-Monthers, Florence and Mike Lince, as they spent their six months in South America. Now, they’ve moved on for another six months.....
Boomers are not getting any younger but age has advantages 14 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Guess what: we’re not getting any younger. Or, more attractive, according to snarky baby boomer Tina Gregoire, AKA Tina Boomerina! But Tina takes comfort, knowing that Age Levels the Playing Field. .....
