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Boomer Angst: The bucket list: A to-do list for the rest of your life
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014. The bucket list: A to-do list for the rest of your life. Me on the right with, from left, wife Jane, son David, and. Daughter Elizabeth at Breckenridge in Colorado. I’m goal driven, so the idea of a bucket list as I sojourn through my 60s is a good thing. It’s like a to-do for the rest of my life, but on a grander, wider scale than the to-do lists that occupy my current working retired years. All tallied, there were 16 of us - me and Jane, two sisters, two brothers in law, two ni...
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Boomer Angst: January 2015
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015. In love - and in hate - with my hearing aids. I am now wearing hearing aids. And I love them. And I hate them. I love the fact that I can now hear and understand my wife Jane, a low talker, in the parlance of Jerry Seinfeld. I love that I don’t have to crank the television volume up to astounding levels that frighten women and children and animals. I love the fact that I can better understand the soft, sweet voice of my 3-year-old granddaughter. For the longest time, I pushed...
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Boomer Angst: 61 as a number, not an age
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Friday, June 27, 2014. 61 as a number, not an age. Here’s the thing about turning 61: It’s an age that either defines you or you define it. I’m trying my best to define it, so I consider it a number, not a state of mind. Sure, there are days when I feel every year, every month, every week, every day, every hour, every minute, every second of being 61. My knees remind me. My back reminds me. I feel the need to be on the move - physically, mentally, emotionally. Some of the engagement comes from the fact t...
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Boomer Angst: July 2014
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Sunday, July 20, 2014. My history of PDS: Public Displays of Singing. I freely admit to PDA - Public Displays of Affection - with my wife Jane. I am more prone, however, to PDS - Public Displays of Singing. Sometimes I wonder in my third act of careers (currently I’m in Act II as a freelance writer after a long Act I career in newspapers) whether to perform as a singer at whatever local bars and restaurants would have me and my band, which consists of Martha, my 46-year-old acoustic guitar. Public Displa...
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Boomer Angst: My history of PDS: Public Displays of Singing
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Sunday, July 20, 2014. My history of PDS: Public Displays of Singing. I freely admit to PDA - Public Displays of Affection - with my wife Jane. I am more prone, however, to PDS - Public Displays of Singing. Sometimes I wonder in my third act of careers (currently I’m in Act II as a freelance writer after a long Act I career in newspapers) whether to perform as a singer at whatever local bars and restaurants would have me and my band, which consists of Martha, my 46-year-old acoustic guitar. Public Displa...
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Boomer Angst: Wired up and ready to go
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Monday, August 11, 2014. Wired up and ready to go. FitBit and Timex Ironman on my left, Road ID and Polar. Heart strap readout on my right. Hmmm, clowns to the left. Of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you. When I prepared to go for a run this morning, I strapped a heart monitor around my chest, the heart monitor readout and a Road ID bracelet on my right wrist, a Timex Ironman watch and a FitBit Flex on my left wrist. It all begs the question: Why? I can gauge what kind of wo...
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Boomer Angst: September 2013
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013. I need a book-hoarding intervention. It’s time to come to grips with the half-read and unread books stacked up on my nightstand and in my nightstand drawer. Oh, and we should probably talk about what’s stacked up in my Nook e-reader, too. After a while of all this, the read, unread and half-read books begin to stack on, in and around my nightstand. I liked the premise of “1493” - a look at how North America was before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas a...I’m...
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Boomer Angst: August 2014
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Monday, August 11, 2014. Wired up and ready to go. FitBit and Timex Ironman on my left, Road ID and Polar. Heart strap readout on my right. Hmmm, clowns to the left. Of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you. When I prepared to go for a run this morning, I strapped a heart monitor around my chest, the heart monitor readout and a Road ID bracelet on my right wrist, a Timex Ironman watch and a FitBit Flex on my left wrist. It all begs the question: Why? I can gauge what kind of wo...
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Boomer Angst: May 2014
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Friday, May 2, 2014. My homeward bound life as a hobo. This hobo's primary mode. Since January, I’ve become a bit of a hobo. I’m slightly better dressed than your average hobo, and I do have steady income, but I’ve been riding the rails - and buses and planes and cars - at least twice a month to travel hither and yon. The etymology of hobo is worth exploring because it provides some context for Baby Boomers like myself who get the urge for going. My heart is with Jane in South Bend. My heart is also ...
