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The Boomer Chronicles
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Wherein a 40-something baby boomer examines midlife crisis, ennui in America, and other compelling ideas
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Friday Links Variety Show (December 4, 2009)
Five little-known websites that will save you money when booking airfare online This baby boomer gives you seven reasons you need a Facebook fan page Your lifelong memories are linked to stable nerve connections...
Three Random Thoughts for a Thursday
I am trying to eat Activia in the mornings to help cure my perpetually lousy stomach. They say you have to eat it for two weeks at least for it to work. When I was too lazy to drive to the grocery store this week, I went to the natural food store an...
Meredith Baxter Birney Comes Out
Meredith Baxter Birney, 62, has announced that she is happily ensconced in a lesbian relationship. Baxter had had three marriages before her relationship with her current partner, Nancy Locke, 54. Baxter, the star of the 1980s hit sitcom Family Ties,...
The Day the Internet Died
I work at an institution of higher learning, so my daytime Internet access is excellent. Except for today. When I arrived at work the Internet was down. So I searched around my office with my co-workers for something to do. We ended up performing a v...
Half of Americans Are At Risk for a Disastrous Retirement
The report from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College sums up the trouble: The sharp decline in the stock market in 2008 placed the retirement security of many Americans at risk. Although the market has rebounded sharply since its trou...
You Can’t Make Me Shop at Amazon
With the winter holidays right around the corner, I’m thinking about how much I object to huge chain stores. I’m lucky to live in Boston, a city that has historically enjoyed a surplus of bookstores, many of them general interest and many...
