Boomers

Many of us are facing job losses or just trying to add to our low pensions.  Whatever the case may be some of us will be going for job interviews again. So, I decided to begin posting some job interviewing and search hints as I discover them. I hope we ca

A fellow caregiver sent a really funny video to me. It is by a woman that was doing an invocation at a convention. She added a few funny words to the prayer that I just had to share for anyone you know that is a caregiver or just old enough to appreciate

I just read an eye-opening blog post in Wallop Pop that indicated a savings of  $835 dollars if you brew your coffee at home for a year. That’s right if we restrain ourselves from grabbing that cup of java from our popular fun shops and put the mone

Hello, my name is Rosie Horner and I am a baby boomer. Whew, that wasn’t hard at all. But there are probably some other things I need to confess. What am I lying about? What truths do I need to face and fess up? Ok, this is not a true confession pos

I just read an excellent post on bridge jobs for babyboomers. Now, th is is inspirational because it shows it encourages baby boomers to look at jobs for the purpose of staying productive. Yet, I am stuck on the fact that so many baby boomers I know are j

There is a super FAMILY MOVIE on Fox this Saturday, January 8, 2011t (8 PM, 7 Central), as part of Walmart and P&G’s Family Movie Night series. Change of Plans tells the story of a young couple, Sally and Jason, whose lives are turned upside dow

Andy Borrows - swapping alter-egos"Thou hast nor youth nor age / But as it were an after-dinner's sleep / Dreaming on both."

Andy Borrows' musings on life and all its confusion, contradictions, richness and opportunities

This made me queasy when I first read it…   The Courthouse News Service reported that 84-year-old Dorsey Henderson of Fairhope, Alabama called 911 after investigating the car accident and discovering that the driver of the vehicle was severely

We have a lot of new bloggers joining the ChangingAging Blogstream and I thought it would be useful to offer a brief video tutorial explaining how to create a video blog post and share it with your followers using social networking tools like Facebook and

Since my dad was in the hospital due to complications of congestive heart failure, I’ve compiled these resources to help me learn a lot more about the condition. Five Tips to Keep in Mind When You Search for Medical Information on the Web (Subt...

In November 2010, Greenspring, an Erickson Living community in Springfield, Va., offered a new program—“Live the Life”—that actually lets potential residents enrolled on its priority waiting list experience “practice&#822

In about two minutes I'm taking the stage to give the keynote address at the 7th Annual Conference on Aging in Allegany County, N.Y. The theme is "The State of Aging" and I'm pleased that the organizers asked me to speak about how social media is changing

Thank you all for your lovely comments on yesterday's post about Time Goes By's poor reputation rating. It surely was not meant as a fishing expedition and I was surprised. You make me feel all warm and fuzzy. You're all just wonderful.

Do you believe it when websites tell you they do not sell or share the personal information we are required to hand over when we register? I don't. I mean, how would I know? How would anyone without subpoena power...

There are days when it's not worth getting out of bed. We all know this to be a truth but the problem is that it is impossible to know until you're already out of bed. Yesterday was one of those...

The annual Trustees' Report on the Status of Social Security and Medicare was released on Friday. Due to the weakened economy, slower economic recovery than was assumed in last year's report, lower estimates for death rates and increasing number of...

You never know who you're going to meet on the internet and I came to know Peter Tibbles (bio here) via email over the past couple of years. His extensive knowledge of most genres of music and his excellent taste...

Interesting Stuff is a weekly listing of short takes and links to web items that have caught my attention; some related to aging and some not, some useful and others just for fun. You are all encouraged to submit items...

“After 40 years of catering to younger consumers, advertisers and media executives are coming to a different realization: older people aren’t so bad, after all.” So goes the lead to a recent New York Times article about a marketing transformation underway

Amazing conversations awaken a stronger sense of where the Boomer generation is heading. Amazing conversations instill clarity, insight, motivation ... even hope. Amazing conversations showcase the brightest minds in Boomer business, marketing and aging t

?Two very different chapters of history occupied my mind recently. In an interesting TIME magazine article about The Civil War, The Way We Weren’t, author David Von Drehle develops cogent arguments for the idea that this horrific war began five years befo

On Wall Street is an online resource that provides “financial advisors at the largest and most prestigious brokerage firms with the best information and analysis in the industry.” Recently, reporter Elizabeth Wine asked Dr. Joseph Coughlin, director of th

News media have been contemplating implications of the oldest Baby Boomers turning 65 this year. This is a symbolic passage but nevertheless thought worthy. Around 10,000 will reach the milestone daily for the next nineteen years. Never has the nation dea

Ronald W. Reagan February 6, 1911 — June 5, 2004 Much has been written and spoken about the 100th birthday of President Ronald Reagan, on February 6, 2011. This anniversary became a time for many to reflect, to think about this president’s legacies and en

Mother nature is constantly modifying the past to balance the future. Each change is instantaneously occurring in the past or present … depending on the observer. Like Schrodinger’s cat kids. (A subject that is for you high school or college g

I have given my blog writing a rest for awhile, but I couldn’t let your birthday pass Mary. Now that you are 4, you’re able to remember what is happening to you. Your conscious mind is now recording all that you see, hear, smell, feel, and tas

I know Sam, psychology is probably not the most thrilling subject for a junior in High School. They didn’t have psychology available for me to take in the late forties when I was in High School and it wasn’t available for me to take in the sma

I never studied biology like you are presently doing Jack. In the section of the book I am writing on “Becoming Human” biology is a dominate theme. On page 29 of my blog book “Balanceology” I say the following about my lack of educ

“We have to address cutting the debt in a balanced way” say each of the political parties … yet they continue to vote on strictly party lines … as they begin preparing for the 2012 election. In David Brook’s 4/15/2011 column;

Wow, 9 years old Joseph! It is my observation that you are entering the years when young people your age are beginning to form their own opinions about the way they want to live. If you have ridden in a car with GPS you have heard the voice of GPS say &#8

An fortuitous follow-up to a recent NYT piece:  Youth Culture Bites Back I was interviewed by Ms. Kennedy for her superb cover story in The Ottawa Citizen Boomer Magazine.  Also included are savvy comments by Ben Barry, Elizabeth May, Lillian

The first time: NostraChuckus Scoops New York TimesNostraChuckus is thrilled to be able to predict news stories weeks before the New York Times. This time, make it years before: In Shift, Ads Try to Entice Over-55 SetBy BILL CARTER and TANZINA VEGAPubli

NostraChuckus, that uncannily somewhat accurate prognosticator who mostly deals with predicting common sense, is forecasting a new wave of economic interest in Baby Boomers worldwide.  This includes all advertising, marketing, media, economic develop

The Ad Contrarian tipped me off to this one: The Click: Brand Marketing's Most Misleading Measure… a tiny fraction of people ever click on an ad. In fact, 99% of stable cookies examined never click on an ad … optimization of campaigns to achieve higher C

From January 2010: Virtual Professor ChuckIt all started around 1999 when I was writing on the web about Baby Boomers.  My articles were getting hits from a University of Southern California intranet site.  I thought for sure that some professo

I do my best to keep this blog apolitical and focused on international advertising and marketing to Baby Boomers. A warning: I’ll be tiptoeing across The Bosphorus with this one. A year ago I was in Istanbul, heading up a day-long marketing/advertising w