Sure, I'm a Boomer--first wave, actually, born in 1946. That qualifies me for Senior status, too. Thing is, I am having trouble defining myself as either one. When my grandmothers were my age and they had retired, they were absolutely certain of what they were supposed to do, think, behave.
You know what I mean. They wore sensible shoes and crisply pressed housedresses. They wore hairnets. They no longer had jobs outside the home and they were glad. Whew........rest, at last!
So I retired a little while ago. And I am glad I don't have a job outside the home, too. It's just that I'm not as retired as they were and I'm betting there are more like me out there. Right?
What I want to do is to deliver various thoughts, ideas, questions, maybe answers, that relate to who we are. We worked hard, too--but we have done many other things. We think about the world in a different way, not just from our parents and grandparents, but from our children and their contemporaries. We don't want to be 'young' again but we aren't sure we're 'old'.
I will throw out many different topics related to our stage of life: personal security, skin care, genealogy searching, lifelong learning, how the world has become so much smaller and how we can connect to it.
I will welcome input from people of all ages but it's the Boomer-Senior-Older American viewpoint where I want to focus. So that's the first thing: at what age are you a Boomer? At what stage of life? What defines old--numbers? Attitudes? Health?
I hope you join the discussion with comments, questions, and answers, too. Please be civil--you can disagree but niceness counts. So let's see if we can get started.........is this a good idea? What should we talk about? I have lots of ideas---what are some of your?
