Tag: generations

BOOMERS AND OTHER MISCONCEPTIONS

The New Generation Gap, by Rich Paschall Lately, I have been noticing articles on everything that is wrong with the Boomer Generation. Some think we believe and do bad things. We refuse to give up certain outdated practices. We generate conspiracy theories. We are against change. We are the problem with the world! Some younger … Continue reading BOOMERS AND OTHER MISCONCEPTIONS

GENERATIONAL TALENT

Meeting Basseball's Best, by Rich Paschall What if you could go back in time to meet the best baseball players of all time? What if you could meet the exceptional athletes who may come along once in a generation? Would you do it? Would you spend a day or two in the grandstand just to … Continue reading GENERATIONAL TALENT

A PHOTO A WEEK CHALLENGE: MOMS

A Photo a Week Challenge: Mothers My mother, myself, and Garry's mother. All of us young with life stretching ahead of us. Let this be a happy Mother's day for everyone -- mothers and the children of mothers world round. My mother in 1944, three years before I was born Me as young mother Garry's mother … Continue reading A PHOTO A WEEK CHALLENGE: MOMS

WHAT KIND OF IDEA ARE YOU? – Marilyn Armstrong

From Salmon Rushdie's "Satanic Verses": I don't fit in a category. Not me, not my ideas. The concept of "compromise" as wrong bothers me. Not because I "go with the flow." I have no idea what "the flow" is. I've never been in touch with popular thought because I don't care what's popular -- or unpopular -- or … Continue reading WHAT KIND OF IDEA ARE YOU? – Marilyn Armstrong

ELDERLY INSPIRATION – Marilyn Armstrong

We are them. We are full of inspiration. We want to fix the world, end the Trump reign. Force congressional representatives and senators to do their jobs. No, really, that's what we want. The problem is the "elder" part of the title. We did this already. I did in personally with letters and protests and … Continue reading ELDERLY INSPIRATION – Marilyn Armstrong

INSPIRED ELDERS – Marilyn Armstrong

We are them. We are full of inspiration. We want to fix the world, end the Trump reign. Force congressional representatives and senators to do their jobs. No, really, that's what we want. The problem is the "elder" part of the title. We did this already. I did in personally with letters and protests and … Continue reading INSPIRED ELDERS – Marilyn Armstrong

EFFERVESCENT INGREDIENTS – Marilyn Armstrong

I should be peppy and lively. I should be able to find the ingredients to get the laundry done, to go take a few pictures. Something. I'm too beat up to find anything remotely effervescent in me right now. It has been a grueling few months. Not always in a bad way, but still exhausting … Continue reading EFFERVESCENT INGREDIENTS – Marilyn Armstrong

GROWING UP BOOMER

My generation -- the post-war baby boomers -- had an unusually high percentage of dysfunctional relationships with parents. I thought it was a self-selecting sample. I had a pretty awful childhood. My father was a sociopath who should never have been allowed near children, much less to be a parent. Maybe I was just attracted … Continue reading GROWING UP BOOMER

IT REALLY DOES TAKE A VILLAGE by ELLIN CURLEY

There’s a saying that it takes a village to raise a child. I think it also takes a village to get someone to the age of 100. I saw both of those concepts in action this past weekend when we went to Minnesota to celebrate the 100th birthday of my husband’s Aunt Helen. Aunt Helen … Continue reading IT REALLY DOES TAKE A VILLAGE by ELLIN CURLEY

A VERY HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, AUNT HELEN! BY TOM CURLEY

I have a wonderful family. Most of them live in Minnesota. Oddly, we don’t talk much. It’s not that we don’t like each other. It’s not that we’re mad at each other. We all get along just fine. We just don’t. Talk. Maybe it’s because we’re WASPs. (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) We tend to talk to … Continue reading A VERY HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, AUNT HELEN! BY TOM CURLEY