Posts tagged: baby boomers

Boomers are chameleons in societal change

No-one told me book clubs were so interesting, not so much because of the books under discussion,  but by the real life circumstances of the women attending. When my friend Glenda asked me to be a special guest at the meeting, when members would discuss my book From France With Love, I eagerly agreed as […]

Monday September 17th, 2012 in , , | No Comments »

Lunch reveals lives of older boomers

We are seven women of a certain age, who are lunching together at Kate’s place to celebrate my long-time friend  Sheryl’s birthday.   Sheryl is a baby boomer creeping further into her early 60s and we range in age from her sister, Diane, the youngest at 58 years of age to Margaret, who is 70 years […]

Bowl of cherries

My life in this Golden Age of recent retirement is such a bowl of cherries, that each day I choose some other delicious adventure or activity.  While a new fitness routine is the biggest challenge, my time is dominated by “cocooning’’ a return to hobbies and interests of my 20s and early 30s.  This evidently […]

Sunday May 9th, 2010 in , , , | 3 Comments »

Mourning Glory

That last taboo – Death – has become a springboard for Leonor Scherrer, daughter of French couturier Jean-Louis to launch her own “funeral couture’’. In France one can no longer consider turning up to a funeral draped in drab black… one must be chic, especially if one is the daughter of one of France’s elite […]

Saturday May 8th, 2010 in , , | 1 Comment »