Boomeresque:Definition
1. Adj.: Describing a person born between 1 Jan. 1946 and 31 Dec. 1964
2. Adj.: Description of a person, place or thing possessing Baby Boomer je ne sais quoi
3. See also, Boomer, Esq.: A Baby Boomer who is also a licensed attorney (See, e.g., About).

Personal Essays

Traveling through History

August 22, 2013 26 comments

Athens Acropolis from the Agora

Revised October 6, 2019. I have been probably rightfully accused of being a very serious Baby Boomer (i.e. boring, but reliable), a founding member of Mr. and Mrs. Excitement. However, I do try to add a little levity to most some of my posts, even those covering seemingly serious subjects, like Pope Francis’ visit to […]

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Baby Boomer Memory Lane – The Marriage of Our First Born

May 3, 2013 50 comments

[Edited on February 7, 2016] One of the rites of passage for many Baby Boomers these days is the marriage of our children. Our older son, Ben, married Andrea. Before their marriage, they were a couple for four years, including two years of co-habitation. This was not a hasty, spur of the moment wedding. They […]

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Baby Boomer Travel Induced Hypochondria

April 5, 2013 41 comments

Ibuprofen

As Boomeresque readers know, my husband, Steve, and I returned from a trip to Hawaii at the end of February. We live in Philadelphia, so despite the curious fact that the island state of Hawaii actually has roads that are denoted “Interstate” highways, this meant our trip involved about 24 hours in various airplanes to […]

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Travel Down Memory Lane

January 26, 2013 39 comments

Sometimes travel is not measured in miles (or kilometers). Sometimes travel is cerebral, the view absorbed by our mind’s eye. As an aging Baby Boomer, I find myself tripping down Memory Lane more and more often. Sometimes — like for Steve and me — it happens in an elevator. As we and our four bags […]

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Turkeytopia for a Philly Phriday

November 23, 2012 37 comments

Turkey Ready for the Oven

Updated November 22, 2020 Just as many Baby Boomers can remember where we were when we learned President Kennedy had been assassinated, we will also remember with whom we celebrated Thanksgiving during the Covid 19 pandemic of 2020—or as our daughter-in-law describes it, “2020: The Year That Keeps on Taking“. This year, it will be […]

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Turkey-Phobia

November 16, 2012 19 comments

2013 Post-script below. You all know that this coming Thursday, November 22, 2012 is Thanksgiving day here in the United States, right? Two friends (admittedly, both not from the United States) miscalculated and thought it was on Thursday, November 29th. It does seem to have sneaked up on us awfully fast this year.  That is […]

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On the Road in Spain with Our #2 Boomlet

September 4, 2012 17 comments

Updated: November 3, 2018 This article appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel Section on September 2, 2012.  (It has since disappeared from their website. So much for my 5 seconds of local fame.) When our son was a high school student in a suburb of Philadelphia, he rejected my advice that it was very helpful […]

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Baby Boomer Dog Daze

August 30, 2012 89 comments

My husband and I came by our predilections for working twelve hours a day honestly.  We’re Baby Boomers and must feel some vestigial responsibility to atone for our generation’s earlier excesses with sex, drugs and rock and roll.  Given our work schedules, it was a no-brainer that our two sons would be the only mammals […]

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Hoot (the Brigantine Owl Scare-Gull) Says, “Rain, Rain, Go Away”

August 28, 2012 10 comments

Hoot, the Scaregull, Scowling at the Menacing Sky on Our Deck in Brigantine

I awoke to some rumbles of thunder this morning down tha’ shore in Brigantine, New Jersey.  There was a trembling dog on my bed.  Poor Dino (the dog) developed a thunder phobia last summer at age six. Fortunately, the major storms went north and south, so Dino got himself back together and eventually the sun […]

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Tower of Babel

June 3, 2012 16 comments

No, not THAT Tower of Babel.  I’m referring to the one here in the lobby of the 3 star Absalon Hotel near the main Copenhagen train station in Denmark.  I am fortunate to be on a 25 day trip as a trailing spouse.  My physician-scientist husband (Steve) was invited to speak at three European conferences […]

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