Updated April 15, 2020 Friends and relatives Readers who have been following this blog know that my husband frequently appears in my blog posts as “Mr. Excitement”. I hope new readers will ...
https://www.boomeresque.com/my-boomer-baby-meet-mr-excitement/
I need to clarify that by “write”, I mean “hand-write”. This post is inspired by a Facebook discussion started by a homeschooling mother. She, her husband, and two young sons (ages 7 and ...
https://www.boomeresque.com/to-write-or-not-to-write-that-is-the-question/
Visiting Peru was on my bucket list long before I knew there was such a thing as a bucket list. I had been wanting to go there ever since seeing a photo of Machu Picchu on the cover of a National...
I’m starting to see newspaper articles (yes, I still read those) about colleges and universities welcoming students for the fall semester. My husband, Mr. Excitement and I, and I have already l...
https://www.boomeresque.com/first-day-of-college-first-day-of-the-empty-nest/
I recently read a blog post by a British woman, writing about her dread at having to participate in the Mothers’ Race for Sports Day at her daughters’ school. This sent me flashing back to 19...
Most of the time, when we think about “travel”, we are out and about — on road trips, flying across countries and continents, sailing the high seas or memorable rivers, riding the rails o...
https://www.boomeresque.com/enjoy-these-travels-down-memory-lane/
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 mo...
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 ...
https://www.boomeresque.com/you-might-not-want-to-go-when-were-there/
I was nine in 1963 and it never occurred to me that my parents did not have much of a plan. My father, a Philadelphia public high school ceramics teacher, decided to take a sabbatical year off at...
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 Phi...