Download or read book A Baby Boomer s Times Travels Thoughts and Hopes written by Martin Feess and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1949, Martin Feess joined the American baby boomer generation—one of the most privileged group of people to ever walk the earth. While growing up in a small Wisconsin town on a picturesque lake, Feess learned about Dick and Jane, collected an abundance of toys, played baseball, and watched hours of television westerns, just like many other boys of his generation. In a fascinating story of a boomer’s time as seen through a boomer’s eyes, Feess leads others through his experiences as part of the disillusioned generation of the Vietnam War as he matured, served in the army, attended college, and moved west to begin a new chapter. While sharing personal anecdotes, observations, and lessons learned, Feess provides a look into how his journey eventually took him to the Middle East, Europe, and Asia where he learned to embrace the perspectives of others living around the world. Through his experiences and historical reflections, Feess offers an educational window into the making of a unique generation that today looks back in laughter and forward in hope while attempting to better understand who we all are as Americans. A Baby Boomer’s Times, Travels, Thoughts, and Hopes shares personal stories, observations, and historical facts that provide an entertaining and thought-provoking slice of Americana.
Download or read book The Art of the Wasted Day written by Patricia Hampl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air" A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form. She begins with two celebrated eighteenth-century Irish ladies who ran off to live a life of "retirement" in rural Wales. Her search then leads to Moravia to consider the monk-geneticist, Gregor Mendel, and finally to Bordeaux for Michel Montaigne--the hero of this book--who retreated from court life to sit in his chateau tower and write about whatever passed through his mind, thus inventing the personal essay. Hampl's own life winds through these pilgrimages, from childhood days lazing under a neighbor's beechnut tree, to a fascination with monastic life, and then to love--and the loss of that love which forms this book's silver thread of inquiry. Finally, a remembered journey down the Mississippi near home in an old cabin cruiser with her husband turns out, after all her international quests, to be the great adventure of her life. The real job of being human, Hampl finds, is getting lost in thought, something only leisure can provide. The Art of the Wasted Day is a compelling celebration of the purpose and appeal of letting go.
Download or read book Sunrise to Sunset the Road We Traveled How Will History Judge the Baby Boomers written by Michael Sirover and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Why should you read a book about the Baby Boomer generation? Good question. From our sunrise (Davy Crockett hats, hula hoops, the polio vaccine and practicing for a nuclear attack by hiding under our desks in school) then going forward, the Baby Boomer generation was a major influence affecting both America and the world. So, as we ride into the sunset, it may be worthwhile not only for our generation but also for our children and for our grandchildren to begin to understand what we did, why we did it and how those actions will affect their lives for years to come. It's been approximately five decades since we Baby Boomers came of age and took our own first steps on the Road of Life, writing our generation's chapters in the Book of American and World History as we traveled that road. Our history is now inscribed in that Book for all time. It is the record of our successes and failures, our highs and our lows, our joys and our sorrows. Which paths did we follow? What were the results when we turned right or left? What was around the curve? What did we see in the distance? When we got there, was it what we thought it would be? Now that we've traveled that road, what do we think of as we look back at our journey? Table of Contents Chapter 1: Rating the Baby Boomer Generation: On a Scale of 1-10 where do we rate? Chapter 2: An Ode to our Parents, the Greatest Generation: Maybe You Weren't So Bad After All Chapter 3: A Tale of Two Clocks: How the Baby Boomers "Turned the Tables on Nature" Chapter 4: The State of Israel: A Blessing for Jewish Baby Boomers, Their Children and Grandchildren Chapter 5: Baby Boomers and the Law of Unintended Consequences-I: "The Americans Who Are Not Here" Chapter 6: Baby Boomers and the Law of Unintended Consequences-II: "The Americans Who Are Here" Chapter 7: Yesterday and Today: The "Children of the 60's" 50 Years Later This book is written in an informal manner using a user friendly approach to describe aspects of our life which the author considers as important historically, socially and culturally. Its goal is to provide one Baby Boomer's reflections of that decade's old adventure, the road we traveled, the challenges we faced, the decisions we made. Considering that the author reached his Biblical three score and ten, it seemed appropriate that this was the time for him to set down on paper his reflections of our time on the Stage of Life. As indicated in the Table of Contents, this book contains seven essays each of whose topics this Baby Boomer considers of special significance as they defined our place in history, how we changed America and the world, for better or for worse. It is hoped that the reader will consider his choice of topics appropriate, his analysis of significance and the information contained in each essay timely. All told, it's been a "hell of a ride." And, it may not be over yet.
Download or read book It s Not About Age It s About Attitude written by Sue Asti Cortesi and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isnt this the greatest time to be in the senior generation? We are the youngest looking feeling and thinking seniors that has ever graced the planet. These next years of our lives should be filled with peace, joy and contentment and we all have the capability to make them just that by using our attitude in the most upbeat and positive way. You can choose to have the most positive attitude in all areas of your life which makes all the difference in how you feel. This guide is about making the most of our thoughts and how they can make our life peaceful and happy.
Download or read book Boomer Boosters written by J. J. Ross Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing older ... is a GOOD thing! Right? It does beat the alternative! You may have one of three reactions to this book's title: (1) I'm not yet a Boomer so aging is of no concern to me; (2) I'm way older than a Boomer so this is too late for me; (3) I am a Boomer ... and I don't want to admit it or even think about the fact I'm getting older every day. Go away!Hey, I hear you. But, this book is for every single adult, no matter which of these three initial gut reactions we may have. Every day, we get a day older (unless we encounter the unhappy alternative, of course). That's a good thing. No matter what your age, the stories, reflections and insights you'll read here will help make your life more positive and hope-full! That's right: filled with hope!Specifically, Baby Boomers are the 76 million-plus who were born between 1946 and 1964 - those who are now in their 50's, 60's and 70's. This can be one of the most exciting seasons of life yet encountered. Really! This seasoned author-minister to Boomers, seniors and all others, shares personal life experiences and reflections to encourage and inspire his fellow aging Baby Boomers, to make this the most fulfilling third of their lives. Yet older individuals will also be motivated by the discoveries they'll come across in these pages. And to those younger - hey, we are each getting older every day. It's not to early to learn how to make your life a great trip.Are you feeling some angst about this aging reality? * Do you wish you had a better attitude about getting older? * Do you know someone who is discouraged by the reality of advancing years? Maybe it is you. * Don't you wish you could see the bright side of now having years of accumulated experience and wisdom? * Would you like to discover the special gift you are to your world, because of your many years already lived? You can. This book will give you insights you may not have yet had unlocked. You will be uplifted, blessed and encouraged as you come to see the special influence you have at this stage in your life. You will identify with the author who is a "real" person - just like you. You'll relate to the stories he shares from his life. He does so in an easy-to-read and relaxed style. Many of your own stories and life adventures will come to mind and you'll start to think: "Hey, I can bless the people I know by sharing that with them. This will be fun!"Do you want to know how a New York city-dwelling Grandma could inspire you by her ability in wielding an axe to prepare a chicken dinner for her family and friends during a farm visit? How could summers of slinging heavy hay bales in hot, humid summer weather prepare a person for enduring the daily challenges of getting older? Have you considered how basics learned in scouting could enable a senior to be strong in doing their duty each day? What can be learned from an Olympic athlete who was shot down in wartime, left to drift in the Pacific Ocean for over a month and imprisoned in an enemy concentration camp, that could encourage you? What you like to be reassured that it is okay to take a vacation - to take some time off? In fact, that it is not only okay, but necessary for your survival?! These will be just a few of the nuggets you'll mine as you read.For an altitude change in your attitude about aging, get your copy right away and start reading now. Also, be sure you recommend this book to those you know who may be feeling negative about their aging reality. Help them to be inspired - even boosted! It is Boomer Boosters, but we now know it is for far more than only Baby Boomers. Anyone who is getting older one day at a time, will find this is for them. Click now for your copy and unlock a more positive future.
Download or read book A Generation of Seekers written by Wade Clark Roof and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1993 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback: the landmark portrait of the baby boomers' search for meaning and values in an uncertain world--as profiled in Time and USA Weekend cover stories. "(Roof) displays an engaging sense of humor, a profound compassion for the spiritual yearnings of his subjects, and an ecumenical spirit".--Los Angeles Times.
Download or read book A Contemplative Life written by Charles F Harrington and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of essays, poems and letters written over the last few decades and woven together in a narrative that tells the story of a baby boomer's lifetime. This book was written as a labor of love, detailing a wonderful journey through our often tumultuous times. The book begins with some family historical backround and continues along the march of time from the 'wild eyed wonder' of youth, 'coming of age', in the 70's and 80's, living the 'American dream', family life, 'loss and sorrows', 'love and romance', all the way to the present day perspective of a life lived well and full. The book reflects one man's values and details how they came to be, and where they have led him. In it, I hope others can find moments, emotions and memories with which to identify along with perhaps an understanding that there has always been much more to our lives than meets the eye. The book, for the greater part, is a-political, focusing instead on cultural and family life from the 1960's through the present day, all with hints of a private, but obvious foundation in faith and optimism. The essays, poems and letters all draw upon lessons learned, some the hard way, from parents, neighbors, friends and most of all experience. Some family photos are included, both as an illustration of the times and themes, and the author's personal story. The author grew up in what was then, the small Massachusetts town of Franklin, then settled in the 'Quiet Corner' of Northeastern Connecticut to raise his own family. He lived in each for roughly thirty years, and this is a story of those times, places and the people who rode along on the journey. As the middle child of nine siblings, children of a high school English teacher, and a deeply thoughtful, if somewhat beleaguered home-maker, the 'gift of gab', seemed a natural birthright. Life in the 1960's and 70's in that small bedroom community had a most significant impact. Ours is a very different world today, from the one we all grew up in, some truths do remain, others no doubt, are sorely missed. The importance and influence of those 'small town' values, from a different time in America, extended through into the development of the author's life as a father himself, and to the lives of his children in another small town in Connecticut. The world certainly has changed, but many of the ideals and principles have survived. These writings are the product of a 'Life of Contemplation', a consideration of perhaps a grander scheme to things, and at the very least a tale of wonderful adventure that drives home the point offered to the author at ten years old by his father, that we can indeed, "Choose to be happy, regardless of the circumstances". That advice has been my mantra, and my hope is that others can read that in these writings, and hopefully find some truth of it, in their own lives.
Download or read book Boomer Boosters written by J. J. Ross Johnston and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing older ... is a GOOD thing! Right? It does beat the alternative! You may have one of three reactions to this book's title: (1) I'm not yet a Boomer so aging is of no concern to me; (2) I'm way older than a Boomer so this is too late for me; (3) I am a Boomer ... and I don't want to admit it or even think about the fact I'm getting older every day. Go away! Hey, I hear you. But, this book is for every single adult, no matter which of these three initial gut reactions we may have. Every day, we get a day older (unless we encounter the unhappy alternative, of course). That's a good thing. No matter what your age, the stories, reflections and insights you'll read here will help make your life more positive and hope-full! That's right: filled with hope! Specifically, Baby Boomers are the 76 million-plus who were born between 1946 and 1964 - those who are now in their 50's, 60's and 70's. This can be one of the most exciting seasons of life yet encountered. Really! This seasoned author-minister to Boomers, seniors and all others, shares personal life experiences and reflections to encourage and inspire his fellow aging Baby Boomers, to make this the most fulfilling third of their lives. Yet older individuals will also be motivated by the discoveries they'll come across in these pages. And to those younger - hey, we are each getting older every day. It's not too early to learn how to make your life a great trip. Are you feeling some angst about this aging reality? -Do you wish you had a better attitude about getting older? -Do you know someone who is discouraged by the reality of advancing years? (Maybe it is you!) -Do you wish you could see the bright side of now having years of accumulated experience and wisdom? -Would you like to discover the special gift you are to your world, because of your many years already lived? You can. This book will give you insights you may not have yet had unlocked. You will be uplifted, blessed and encouraged as you come to see the special influence you have at this stage in your life. You will identify with the author who is a "real" person - just like you. You'll relate to the stories he shares from his life. He does so in an easy-to-read and relaxed style. Many of your own stories and life adventures will come to mind and you'll start to think: "Hey, I can bless the people I know by sharing that with them. This will be fun!" Do you want to know how a New York city-dwelling Grandma could inspire you by her ability in wielding an axe to prepare a chicken dinner for her family and friends during a farm visit? How could summers of slinging heavy hay bales in hot, humid summer weather prepare a person for enduring the daily challenges of getting older? Have you considered how basics learned in scouting could enable a senior to be strong in doing their duty each day? What can be learned from an Olympic athlete who was shot down in wartime, left to drift in the Pacific Ocean for over a month and imprisoned in an enemy concentration camp, that could encourage you? Would you like to be reassured that it is okay to take a vacation - to take some time off? In fact, that it is not only okay, but necessary for your survival?! These will be just a few of the nuggets you'll mine as you read. For an altitude change in your attitude about aging, get your copy of this book right away and start reading. Also, be sure you recommend this book to those you know who may be feeling negative about their aging reality. Help them to be inspired - even boosted! It is Boomer Boosters, but we now know it is for far more than only Baby Boomers. Anyone who is getting older one day at a time, will find this is for them. Click now for your copy and unlock a more positive future.
Download or read book The Joe Lunchbucket Chronicles written by Joe Lunchbucket and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Boomers One and AllCaution! Once you start down this path there may be no turning back. You will be compelled to reflect on those long summer days, your own rites of passage, that fair young maiden that twisted your heart into a pretzel, the boys of your youth that taunted, dared and lived the adventures at your side. What will you find? You will find good times. You will find sad times. You may find that the years have added perspective and made sense of many of the things you did. You will find that some of the things you did are still inexplicable. Are all of these issues covered in the Chronicles? In some form or fashion yes; although some may still be trapped in our memories.The Joe Lunchbucket Chronicles are a collection of stories that share what may be universal boomer experiences. Maybe, just maybe, your stories may not be so far off the beaten path from that which Joe Lunchbucket has traveled. Maybe you will find yourself in these stories. Maybe these Chronicles will bring to mind memories of your own days of high adventure.Joe Lunchbucket came to grips with the fact that neither he nor his experiences were unique unto themselves. What he discovered was that the collection of people, the times, events and places shared were unique. The Chronicles cannot just be stories to the reader; they need to be the gateway to your own remembrances. If you let yourself drift a little bit, stare off into space, you will soon find yourself, as Joe did, right back in the thick of it. You will find your own magical time and place. Its there waiting for you. Get going!
Download or read book Reflections of a Baby Boomer written by Janice Hiatt Steil and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventy-six million Americans born between 1946 and 1965 have reshaped America with their style, their tastes and, above all, by their sheer numbers. The Boomers are passing through American history, outnumbering the previous generation by a staggering 28 million. This book is a refreshing reminder of what we considered the simpler, quieter times of the fifties, surviving the turbulent sixties and further impressions of a baby boomer growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hopefully, it will take you on a trip down memory lane. Times have changed so much from the fifties, some for the good, some for the bad, but life does go on and we as baby boomers will survive.
Download or read book Baby Boomers Guide written by Steven Testerman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book is the first in a series for Baby Boomers in search of Spiritual answers. Finding God helps guide you through the first steps you must take if you are to believe in a Higher Power - and is written especially for Baby Boomers Guide by a vintage 1948 author. The Woodstock Generation has some members who are Lost! We are trying to find them. Baby Boomers Guide: Finding God! is written for the nearly half of Boomers who are dropouts from formal religion. There are those who think that "Religion' is a bad thing - this Baby Boomers Guide will try to offer up some ideas for your Spiritual contemplation. I want to share with you what I hope is a logical and plausible case for the existence of God - that can stand up to whatever the Scientists are saying today. These days there are people who want to say that God did not have to exist, or that there was no time for God to have been created. Others think the idea of God is so ridiculous that they make a movie about it! I hope to show you why these things are not necessarily true! Boomers can pose some really hard questions and it is really hard to pull the wool over most Baby Boomer's eyes - it seems like we have seen it all! We have been witness to some pretty remarkable things in our life! We questioned authority We trusted no one over 30! We were and still are ... unique Sometimes this was good Sometimes this didn't work out too well! Times were changing and it was like no other time since. We got to see it all in color! I struggled for several decades of my adult life trying to reconcile what I was taught about God and religion in my youth and what I had learned about science and life. I have come to believe two things: Science and God are totally compatible. A Life of Hope is a good way to go. We present a case for God - but try to do so in a highly-illustrated eBook that takes on topics such as: Is there a God? Is God Dead? Does Science Disprove God? I Don't believe in Adam and Eve The Bible is wrong Who Created the Universe and beyond? Why Believe in God? and much more!
Download or read book Journeys of a Boomer written by Holly Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a card-carrying member of the Baby Boomer generation? Or are you a son or daughter of a baby boomer? If you want to reminisce or simply find out about some of the life stages of this era, you will enjoy this book. This book is a series of stories that will take you back to the coonskin caps of the fifties, the Kennedy assassination and Vietnam in the sixties, raising a family during the seventies and eighties and nineties. It deals with happiness and depression, joy and heartache, emotions we all experience during a lifetime. And if the unthinkable happens - the unexpected and sudden death of a spouse - how do you cope? How do you reflect on the past...and the future? How do you handle the shock and the immediate aftermath? How do you deal with changes in relationships with friends and family? Most importantly, where do you find joy and how? This book looks back at the experiences of my life growing up in the fifties and sixties, married life and young parenthood in the seventies and beyond, and then navigating through the challenges of sudden widowhood. Sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, I hope some of my stories will strike a cord with you. The unexpected death of a spouse and the resulting fallout are lessons for every one of us. You will find humor and heartache as each story offers a peek into the life of one Baby Boomer through the eyes of the woman who lived the stories.
Download or read book Reflections of a Baby Boomer written by Linda Lou Hall Hodges and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone's life takes them on a trip from birth to death, success and failure, and joys and sorrows. Reflections of a Baby Boomer is a God-inspired book, using some of the author's real-life experiences, good and bad, enabling the reader to reflect on their own life's journey, using these stories as guides on how to depend on God who is ever present in all circumstances. It also explains to the reader how to begin their journey with God, from joy in salvation, to right living and blessed dying. From the author's humble beginnings in a holler in West Virginia through her life's travels all over the world, she shares her failures, successes, and dreams, using the many different people, cultures, and experiences she had on her way. When she traveled wrong paths, she shares what enables her to return to her foundation in Christ, and when she traveled the right path, how to never forget to thank God for all experiences. She shares her love for others, and the reader will be able to gain insights into their personal life's journey as they begin or continue their walk with God.
Download or read book The Lucky Generation written by Brian R Sumner and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author was born just post the second world war-a member of the so called Baby Boomer Generation in London .During the book he describes to us what life was like growing up in those far off , and very different ,days . Whilst at its core the Book is autobiographical , it is much more than that. It has both comedy and tragedy and is full of well researched facts on many of the events of the 50s , 60s and 70s and beyond that have touched his life and the prevailing Zeitgeist of those years .It seeks to inform in many areas. Brian is a successful businessman and entrepreneur , having been a Director of several Bank Subsidiaries and founded three companies. He shares the business lessons that came to guide him in his career. There have been hardships he has suffered from a severe clinical depression - and the book opens with his moving and harrowing account of what this debilitating illness can be like at its most extreme. The book goes on, in an extremely frank and honest way , to describe his hilarious early experiences as a teenager looking for sex and love , his story of his accomplished work and rugby football careers , his topsy turvy experiences of sailing , skiing and amateur dramatics , his views on marriage and fatherhood , and relationships with women in general , again providing us with both insight and humour throughout ! He discusses his strange journey from Born again Christian , to Atheism, and the forces that drove him from the one extreme to the other. Along Brians lifetime journey we laugh and cry with the author , who has enjoyed much success , happiness and fulfilment in his life in spite of the ever present danger of Depression .
Download or read book Flyover Country written by Christopher Harper and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flyover Country focuses on a group of baby boomers who graduated from high school in 1969 in the Midwest before setting off into the world in a time of turbulence to fight in Vietnam, to protest against that war, to find jobs, to have families, and to live lives throughout the United States and overseas. Many of these people have made significant contributions to their communities as business owners, doctors, lawyers, ministers, politicians, and teachers. Many have suffered through tough times, losing their way due to alcohol or drugs or facing family crises from divorce to the death of a spouse or a child. The story also is Harper's story. It is the story of a kid from flyover country who used what he learned in the Midwest to travel throughout the world as a journalist and then as a college professor to try to teach those lessons to his students.
Download or read book A BOOMER S TALE Or I Ain t Dead Yet written by Ed Piane and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello fellow Baby Boomers and those who would like to read a book that may explain your parents, grandparents, and some of your great grandparents. This is the story of one of these Baby Boomers, me. My book, A Boomer's Tale, is a fun and sometimes serious stroll through the life and times of me. I interject as much humor as I can, in the hope that I can entertain while educating you starting with my early childhood in the 50's coming of age in the 60's and 70's. My Marine Corps and Vietnam experiences, my post-military life growing a family along with a long-haul trucking career, up till today will entertain and educate. You fellow Boomers and Vietnam vets may see yourself in these pages. This is the kind of book I wish my parents and grandparents would have written, so I could have better known their lives. Foreword: Growing up in the 1960s near Chicago is depicted with wit and charm. Ed introduces the reader to the inside working of the adolescent male mind as he navigates dating and relationship ups and downs. Other Vietnam Era veterans will see themselves in this account and relate to the constant struggle to 'soldier on' when you don't feel like it. This was written at the beginning of what will surely be a creative and productive retirement. Thanks for the memories. Love, Gina
Download or read book Baby Boomer Blues written by Gary R. Collins and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a comprehensive look at all the aspects of a baby boomer's life, including values, religion, careers, marriage, family, and spiritual life.
