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
April 13, 2012
[Updated September 25, 2017] When I told friends and relatives that I was planning our trip to central Mexico in 2012, the reactions ranged from concern to over-the-top concern. (Yes, Mom, I’m talking about you.) It didn’t help that the State Department had just updated its travel advisory for Mexico to include more parts of the […]
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April 2, 2012
My last post about Mexico was entitled Mexico 1963 and it chronicled the year I spent in the Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende at age nine when my father decided to spend a sabbatical year there. Fast forward some 48 years. Ignoring friends and relatives whose only question was where they should send […]
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March 27, 2012
You are not positive what a blog is. You know what “duck and cover” means and in elementary school you believed doing that would save you from a nuclear bomb. Your lawyer, doctor and accountant are younger than you are. Your eighty-something year old mother thinks you’re a genius about computers and wireless communication, but […]
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November 24, 2010
[This post was written on November 9, 2010 when we flew to Hawaii.] It’s less than two months since we flew home from Japan and I again find myself composing a blog post at 35,000 feet on the second leg of a journey that is taking us from Philly […]
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August 29, 2010
[Updated and edited: 2017, 2018) Even the Baby Boomer generation had a boom within itself. My high school class was the largest in the history of our school. We seriously strained the infrastructure. My assigned seat in chemistry class was on the radiator. I attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls which at the time […]
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