- August 19th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Money on Monday (I was writing this post yesterday from a public library while some sanding work was being done at home and just as I finished it, I hit the wrong key on the unfamiliar keyboard and everything dissappeared....
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- August 18th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Life Two, where Mid-Life is explored in depth, is the host for this weeks's Blog Carnival. Read the best Boomer blogs on the web: Blog Carnival #82
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- August 17th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Ok, I know this is not strictly a Boomer issue...but as an older Boomer adoptive parent of a kid born in China, I am really p***ed OFF at the whole Olympic Spanish women's and men's BB team posing for an...
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- August 15th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Some boomers and baby boomer babies are stepping up the action and breaking out the rock gear to raise money for working women who are coping with cancers of all kinds: http://www.pinkfestbenefit.com/ Main stage will be at the Times Sq....
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- August 14th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
These are the days to be on HIGH ALERT on all fronts. The lasting damage Bushites will attempt and can do will blow us away. The have already created a war to extract as much oil money as possible and...
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- August 13th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Michelle, Matt, Dane, and Greg are students of Prof Michael Moore, NOT THE THE Michael Moore, but The Michael R. Moore of Mich Tech Univ Humanities Dept where he teaches English and other Humanities courses. This summer he and the...
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- August 12th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Last week, I was invited, along with my partners (Laura Smyth and Elmore Reese) in Thimbleberry Press, to a Keweenaw Peninsula Sustainability Meeting. The current energy crisis, the need for sustainable life practices and what could be done to get...
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- August 11th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Money on Monday: treasure comes in many forms. Isaac Hayes Isaac Hayes , soul master, father of 11, restauranteur,philanthropist, song writer/singer, actor, voice over artist, winner of Grammys and an Oscar died yesterday at 65 CNN Obituary. Perhaps
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- August 8th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
This is an exciting day for this old Vaboomer and her Vaboomer partner. We are opening www.vaboomerviosks.com. It is a sister site to this blog and is intended to give boomers a place to show off their vavavaBOOM! I certainly...
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- August 7th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Vaboomer Viosks Grand Opening 8/08 http://www.VaboomerViosks.com Seventy eight million American Boomers are in the pipeline to retire. The first retirees turned 60 only a short time ago. Millions are following. But today???s Boomers are not like any
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- August 6th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
It's a magical place--the Keweenaw Peninsula. The air is clean. The light is limpid and lucent. The trees are fragrant and many. The people are few and warm. And the wildlife is abundant. I first came to the Keweenaw at...
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- August 4th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Sister Gardener, Anne, sent the following email to me from Joe Lelino about the First Annual Honeybee Appreciation Day to be held August 9th at Hill Top Conservancy in NJ. Honey lovers in the tri-state area and beyond come on...
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Money on Monday: Lots of events will be ocurring on August 8, 2008. The Beijing Olympics will begin and at 8: 08 PM. Lots of people will get married. And Vaboomer will expand to include a sister website--Vaboomer Viosks. What...
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- August 2nd, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Got a bad case of coughing and lung crud. It is slowing me way down...back on Monday. Stay tuned to hear about all the wonderful people who will be participating in Vaboomer's new sister site--Vaboomer Viosks.
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- July 31st, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Who can forget Gumby, that little green guy? What was name of the bad guys? The Blockheads What was the name of Gumby's pony? Pokey Great post today at Huffington Post about Gumby: Gumby is Meaning of Life
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Paycheck Fairness Act I regret to inform you that you're a victim of your own success: As a result of mothers across the country expressing their outrage at wage discrimination, we have not one, but two (yes, two!) major pieces...
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- July 30th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
The Olympics are almost upon us and they've made me think again of my years in China, adopting my daughter and doing research...as well as my sagging boobs and butt! Those may be sagging, but my spirits are reFIREING big...
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- July 28th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Rush on over to 'I Remember JFK', who is hosting this week's Blog Carnival. You will see the best Boomer writing on the Web!
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
It really gripes me(well if this were not the world wide web where my blankety blank *&*%$#@***++ words would be out there forever, I would really let fly and tell you how I really feel) about the double and triple...
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- July 27th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Been thinking about that meaty overhang since the last post about Early Girl tomatoes. I never had any meaty overhang to speak of until this year. But since spring my muffin top has gone to a full pumpkin. Oh whatever...
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- July 25th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
The Rutgers University tomato, The Ramapo is back. First launched in 1968 it was and is considered the PERFECT Jersey Tomato. It is sweet and tangy. It is meaty. It is perfect for a tomato sandwich--fitting exactly on the bread...
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- July 23rd, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
We boomers have led the way for a long time AND we have made BIG mistakes--namely, NOT pressing for a national Green Economy more strongly sooner. Baby Boomer former Vice President Gore has issued a challenge to us, to all...
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- July 22nd, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
A Necessary Safety Assistant And a Relief for Boomer Caretakers CARETAKING ISSUES: One of the issues for boomers is caretaking very elderly parents or kin. It was really hard for me, as I've shared in earlier posts. It was made...
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- July 21st, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
David Crook in today's WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121553612650836199.html?mod=2_1590_topbox gives a lot of common sense tips, if you absolutely MUST sell now. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/15/how-to-sell-a-house-if-yo_n_112786.html W
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
David Crook in today's WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121553612650836199.html?mod=2_1590_topbox gives a lot of common sense tips, if you absolutely MUST sell now. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/15/how-to-sell-a-house-if-yo_n_112786.html W
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Up here in the UP/Yooper Land, money is the least of the sources of abundance available. What I see first after crossing the Mackinac Bridge is the change in the light. It is clear and soft at the same time....
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- July 17th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
I'll never be a Yooper-- one born and bred in the Michigan UP or Upper Peninsula, which runs east west under Lake Superior. My kid and I will always be Trolls--living below the bridge--or the Mackinac Bridge which joins the...
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- July 16th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
The Amish do not pay Social Security taxes. The story is an interesting one... Amish resistance to Social Security took different forms. For some the resistance was passive, simply not making payments. In 1958 the IRS began to seize farm...
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- July 14th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Boomer nostalgia is all over Broadway Boomer Nostalgia in renewed Beatlemania http://boomersint.org/memory/beatlemania.htm , in collectibles-- see USA Today July 14th front page, in magazines http://www.babyboomer-magazine.com/usa/directory8.htm and
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
What is your mood today? Select an image below that reflects your mood. Click and enjoy. MOODBOARD
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- July 13th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
I was prepared for gas sticker shock--since NJ has some of the nation's lowest gas prices, plus we get great at the pump service. But zowie, I did not imagine that diesel prices would be almost $4.90. I pity the...
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- July 12th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
All things Bush gets me so agitated that I cannot stand it. So munching one of Nancy's Own cookies sooths my fevered brow and makes my heart sing. I like my Nancy's Own Lemon Ginger Shortbread cookies with a cup...
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- July 11th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
While we are getting our heads around the larger international issues, the political scene and THE ECONOMY, Stupid!, many of us are also thinking of simple ways to economize and prepare for what will probably be a difficult heating season---...
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Books on the Oil Crisis: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Another forwarded message that is pretty eye-opening. I lived in China in the 1990s and saw a similar mind boggling amount of construction. The going joke was: "What is China's national bird"? The Cr
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- July 10th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Malvonia came out of recovery last week singing. Her doctors called her a miracle patient. The liver transplant took and a week and two days after surgery she was home. I visited her July 4th and while she was resting...
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- July 8th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
A few years ago my brother and I went through a hundred and fifty years and more of family papers deciding what we would keep and what to donate to the Ranson-Hunter Family Archive at the Carolina Room in the...
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- July 7th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
I want to share this site with you, because many of you might be coming to the city this summer and here is a great way to find out not only what is going on, but get good discounts as...
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
This post comes to you via a forwarded email from a friend--it is no doubt making the rounds of the internet, and seemed very apt for my Money on Monday post. Clearly there are others out there who feel the...
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- July 4th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Isabel Betancourt, 46, former Columbian presidential candidate, was rescued two days ago in a bloodless and cunning Columbian government operation along with eleven others (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080704/ts_afp/colombiarebelshostages). Betancou
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- July 3rd, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
From computers: Gateway@email.gateway.com , to Los Angeles on a budget, LA Budget , the high gas prices are pushing other prices lower. Automobile AA estimates that fewer will travel this July 4th (weekend), but there are still millions who will....
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- July 2nd, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Something to think about...the national holiday is a bittersweet one for those of us of partial Native American heritage.I'm a little bit Cherokee and always have mixed feelings about celebrating a holiday that marks the demise of native people's nat
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- July 1st, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
OK, you say, now I'm supposed to feel guilty about polar bears AND gorillas? What has that to do with me? Nothing directly...if you are in the developed West, you didn't pull the trigger that brutally murdered--some execution style--10 of...
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- June 30th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
A few years ago in a conversation with a woman who turned out to have blind dated my ex (after we were exed!), I had an epiphany about my inner vision of money. In this picture, I was like Kilroy...
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- June 28th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Just a quick post to say that Lady M, amazing jazz and R&B singer, is cautiously on the mend from her liver transplant. She has a chance for a fresh start. And I ask all out there to send her...
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Can't buy me love, can't buy me love, can't buy me love--nononononoooooooo... The Beatles definitely got the larger picture right. Money can't buy love. But according to www.realage.com in an article on happiness and age (http://www.realage.com/Welln
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- June 25th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
My Artemis energy is really vabooming today as the parent company of Vaboomer became legal. Last fall when I first began to conceptualize Vaboomer, some friends who are more left brain oriented, advised me to FOCUS! I am FOCUSED!! I...
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- June 24th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Sorry everyone for posting Money on Monday on Tuesday. The last few days have been helper days to friends. One couple needed a yard for a whole house yard sale and borrowed mine. SO this past weekend from 7:30AM-8:30PM, we...
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- June 20th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Sent to me from my dearest friend--who bowled me over in our dorm lobby the first week of college in 1963. (We were in the first class that was integrated at UNC-CH for women and minorities. She was belly flopping...
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- June 19th, 2008
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Madelaine Albright signed on to Senator Obama's advisory team the other day in a move to heal the wounds from the recent historic, mind-blowing, I never thought to see in my life time, Democratic party presidential primary campaign. I was...
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ilovemydoggy has posted a new entry on: Vaboomer - Baby Boomer Culture and Support
Amazon recently added a great feature -- you can download video immediately and play on your computer. It's called "Amazon Unbox". It's great for the wallet - some videos only cost $1.99. Here's a nostalgia preview of Chris Farley from...
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