News for the Baby Boomer Generation

In today’s society everyone has choices. What car to drive. What to wear. Who your friends are. Or even whether you will go to the gym or watch TV instead. Raising children isn’t as easy. The choice on how you raise your children is entirely up to you. Were your parents good examples [...]

Billions of dollars are lost to bankruptcies every year. Could this have been prevented? Could it have been bad planning or incorrect financial advice. The truth is it’s not just one contributing factor but many. According to this information provided many individuals and companies leverage their way to bankruptcy. Do these [...]

Article by William H. Pritchett
When a good friend of mine inquired where he could obtain information about medical insurance for his out-of-state, elderly mother, I told him to try the Internet.
He reported back to me about a week later, in desperation: “I am giving up, I am too confused.” He had taken on an [...]

Romans 13: 8-11 best explains High Time
* 8. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
* 9. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet; [...]

MÉNAGE A TROIS - FOR THE ‘DEAD HORMONE’ SET
(Yes, I use foreign words for no reason… One of those…)
Greetings!
By way of introduction, I have been asked to, occasionally, wax poetically on the world of classic cars as I know it. (Actually, I invited myself.)
Anyway, aside from other things, I have been buying and selling, [...]

In addition to their usual post-college, pre-life crew, the Peace Corps is now recruiting Baby Boomers, according to The Seattle Times.
An older volunteer base provides the Peace Corps with people who are experienced in their fields and can manage bigger projects with less training.
Some of the problems facing the Boomers that aren’t necessarily faced [...]

I wrote this article a few months ago, after my dad retired and declared that his first post-retirement project would be re-recording and preserving our old VHS home videos…
Preserving Home Videos: Which DVD Format is Best?
The first thing my father wanted to do upon retirement was transfer our countless VHS home videos onto digital media–to [...]

It’s pretty sad when you step on the scale and realize you need to lose 7 pounds – just to fit into your fat clothes. When this happens, most women refuse to buy fatter clothes. In part because our closets won’t handle one more section of sizes unless we get rid of the super [...]

I recently had dinner with a friend in a quaint, waterfront community. Being portion-conscious, I had part of my dinner boxed up to go. After eating, my friend and I took a long walk up and down the lake’s shore.
It was a beautiful, balmy night. The sun was mostly gone and the lights of the [...]

Sanctuary Sundays

Cold or Flu got you down? or up late at night unable to sleep?
The best-kept secret in herbal lore for combatting the common cold or that nasty flu is Echinacea, otherwise known as “The Purple Coneflower”. Never would one think, that those beautiful tranquil flowers that were so lavish in the film “The Color [...]

Twede’s Twin Peak Cafe
Snoqualmie - North Bend, Washington
137 W North Bend Way
North Bend, WA 98045
425-831-5511
http://www.twedescafe.com/
Vacationing in Washington? Well this road stop off of I-90 will give you a “mighty fine slice of cherry pie” and will fulfill your stomach’s grumblings. Its my common stopoff whenever I’m in the area. Famed for the Tv-series “Twin [...]

Although this may be more of interest to marketers than Boomers, MSNBC reports on Madison Avenue ca$hing in on the aging baby boomer population:

They were America’s first mass market and an advertisers’ dream: 77 million baby boomers who came of age with television. As kids, they were consumers of baby foods and breakfast cereals. As [...]