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 with total page 286 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 Reflections of a Baby Boomer written by Bruce Lidstrom and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections is broken into three basic parts. First, reflections on things I have experienced in life. Mostly life in the 50'as and 60's. Many baby boomer writers have done the same thing, but this is my reflections. Then a look at my grandfather, Oscar Lidstrom and his wife Helma. Ma and Pa. I did this for my cousins, several who were raised by our grandparents. Finally, a journal of a 30 day Amtrack trip I took in 2015. My retirement trip.
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 Baby Boomer Reflections written by Fred Arnow and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many books examine the effect that adult baby boomers have had on the country, politics, and society, few have dealt with the formative years of this influential generation-until now. Inspired by the recollections and nostalgic conversations from his fiftieth high school reunion, "typical" baby boomer Fred Arnow sets out to describe the events and environment in which he grew up. The result is a sometimes serious, often humorous examination of the world that shaped a generation. Focusing his remembrances around the graduating class of 1964, Arnow summons up powerful memories of growing up in the 1950s and coming of age in the 1960s, comparing them with the often turbulent world boomers occupy today. Baby Boomer Reflections is more than nostalgia. Arnow has created a storehouse of powerful memories boomers can share with their children and grandchildren, offering a chance to pass on the wisdom of a lifetime-a chance he wishes someone had offered him when he was a brash young man on the cusp of adulthood. Relive the events-good and bad-that made the boomers who they are. This is their story, set down on paper so that it will never be forgotten.
Download or read book Baby Boomer Ramblings written by Gene McParland and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What a gift life is! It comes ready to open every morning. Each day is totally unique. Each day can be a new adventure. It can be a source of joy, or of sorrow. It all depends on how we approach it. The secret to joyful living is learning to look at life through the eyes of a small child. As a bona fide baby boomer, I have lived a life filled with many joys and some regrets. Today I choose to live life in joy and with a sense of childlike wonderment. This book is a reflection on how to recapture the sense of wonder and joy we were born with. This book is a collection of thoughts, ramblings, and experiences about our special gift of life. Baby Boomer Ramblings offers my thoughts, observations and suggestions, on living life in a more positive and happier way. All of this is wrapped around a poem, or more correctly, a poem wrapped around lifes gifts. Personally, I prefer to live life as a poem. Poetry adds magic to life. Its the minds and hearts way of expressing ones inner voice. That is what this book does. Unlike a textbook of life that one reads and studies, poetry is recited by ones mind and speaks to ones heart and spirit. At the minimum, this book offers some food for thought on how to live in the moment. Learn how to live life with a sense of awe and childlike glee. As a baby boomer who has experienced around two-thirds of my life, Im finally at that stage where Ive finally got it. Read this book and discover how to have contentment and laughter. Become a childlike poet of life and be forever young!
Download or read book Our Time After a While written by Lloyd Billingsley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All baby boomers are children of their time. In Our Time After a While, writer Lloyd Billingsley backpacks into that time, the tail end of the tail-fi n era, in its very birthplace. In the motor cities of Detroit and Windsor, the streets, schools and parks jostled with a vast cast of characters. The author charts their adventures, and the sound track no border could stop, and which would spread around the world. This was long ago, but like Bob Seger the author is still humming a song from 1962, and still looking back in wonder. In Our Time After a While, his fellow baby boomers and all others can join him. Memories are made of this.
Download or read book Autobiography of a Baby Boomer written by Robert Schultz and published by Light Messages Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Autobiography of a Baby Boomer you’ll follow the journey of a post-modernist baby-boomer from Father Knows Best middle class Fair Lawn, New Jersey to the hippy trail through Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The overland journey in search of something more than he could find at Cornell University Medical College covers four years during a time when “dropping out,” “turning on,” and “free-love” were the gospel. Through his travels, drugs, séances, very far-out “Road People,” and his parents’ unremitting love, author Robert Schultz comes to truly appreciate the American way of life. In an admittedly unconventional way, Schultz discovers the rather conventional joy of having a family and the awesome responsibility that comes with it.
Download or read book Reflections in a Boomer s Eye written by M. L. VanBlaricum and published by Snap Brim Press. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a multi-faceted career, M.L. (Mike) VanBlaricum has turned his attention to writing poetry and musing on his life as a Baby Boomer. The author is a prototypical Boomer. He was born in 1950 and went off to college to study engineering in the explosive year of 1968. He grew up in small towns in Illinois where he developed a fascination with science, the trombone, nature, and girls. This collection of poems, essays, and musings includes memories and reflections of being a free-range child in the Fifties, a restrained teenager in the Sixties, a college student in the Seventies, and a rambunctious retiree in the Tens. VanBlaricum's accessible writings are laced with wry humor, musical references, and surprise endings. The subject matter ranges from lost loves, the importance of puppy love to the wonderment of real love, what it means to be a Baby Boomer, teenage angst, ruminations on kite-flying and teeter-totters, a fascination with clouds, toads, and moons, and observations and sideways ponderings on natural phenomena. The internal dialogue between engineer and poet bookends this collection.
Download or read book NOW they make it legal written by Howard Harrison and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercurochrome. JFK. Beatlemania. Vietnam. Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll. These are just some of the memories from the Baby Boom era that are captured in NOW they make it legal: Reflections of an aging Baby Boomer. The book traces the evolution of American culture from the “black and white” 1950s through the turbulent 1960s and into the ‘70s, ending in the 1980s “when we began to turn into our parents.” It tells the history of the Baby Boom generation through the eyes of one of the 80 million people born between 1946 and 1964 – the greatest period of population growth in U.S. history. Baby Boomers grew up during a time of great change in America and had a major impact – in music, politics, pop culture and society at large. This nostalgic and fact-filled collection of stories will entertain those who were there, and educate those who weren’t.
Download or read book Staying Alive The Life and Times of an American Baby Boomer Part 2 written by Gene Baumgaertner and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staying Alive is the sequel to An Innocent ManThe Life and Times of an American Baby Boomer. The first book explored growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. Staying Alive continues the adventure into the serendipitous 1970s. The same characters we enjoyed so much in An Innocent Man return and try to take the great leap from late adolescence into early adulthood. Follow our baby boomers as they struggle to survive college, avoid or cope with the Vietnam War, and eventually join mainstream society. Watch these reckless students try to turn themselves into budding professionals; struggle with marriage, child-rearing, and divorce; and try to survive the ups and downs of the volatile 1970s. Totally submerged in their own lives and interests, they still cant avoid the impacts of multiple wars, two oil embargos, rampant inflation, on-again off-again recession, and other world and life-changing events. Follow Ed Bakers efforts to just keep staying alive, John Fitzmorriss transition from Vietnam to a normal life, Johnny Latellas desire to keep scoringon and off the athletic field, Jerry Prinzs simple desire to succeed in business, and Jack Fitzhughs tenacious struggle to turn bad luck into good. Will they survive the gyrating 1970s, and can they do it alone, or does friendship really make a difference?
Download or read book The Baby Boomer Encyclopedia written by Martin Gitlin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia defines and contextualizes the Baby Boomer generation and the wide-reaching contributions of its members throughout modern American history. Comprising some 80 million Americans born between 1946 and 1965, the Baby Boomers have significantly changed every aspect of American history and culture. The members of this generation experienced some of the most tumultuous times in American history; indeed, the Boomers helped create these pivotal eras. From the advent of rock and roll to disco and rap, from the sexual revolution to the arrival of AIDS, and from race riots to the election of a black president, Baby Boomers have seen it all. Through nearly 100 alphabetically arranged entries, this encyclopedia gives later generations insight into the contributions of the Baby Boomers, and it helps members of that generation better contextualize their own experiences. Included entries are written in a clear and engaging manner, covering politics and activism, entertainment, the economy, gender roles, arts, pop culture, sports, religion, drug and alcohol use, and many other subject areas.
Download or read book This Chair Rocks written by Ashton Applewhite and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride! “Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author
Download or read book Good Jeans written by Diane Gilman and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diane Gilman, Home Shopping Network's #1 fashion personality, wants to help women reinvent and reinvigorate themselves as they approach the over-40 milestone, and beyond. Like so many women who enter the second half of their lives, Diane found herself trudging along, having lost the energy that defined her earlier life. Overweight and newly widowed, she was struggling with how society had defined her as well past her prime. But she rediscovered her passion, and totally invigorated her life. At the age of 60, she has become everything she had ever dreamed she'd be. Now she shares the 10 secrets she discovered for aging agelessly, and assures women that the later years can be a time of mind-expanding work, earth-moving love, foundation rocking sex, and soul-grabbing purpose.
Download or read book Biography of a Bad Baby Boomer written by Patricia Maxwell and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her life, author Patricia Maxwell has determined that unpleasant and heartbreaking episodes and the mistakes made during ones life builds character and helps develop empathy for those suffering similar circumstances. In Biography of a Bad Boomer, she shares those experiences that have shaped her. From her birth in 1957 in Coffs Harbor, this memoir describes her personal journey through life in Australia from the fifties to the twenty-first century. She shares her struggles as a teenager with the lack of self-esteem, suffering through domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, returning to school for further education, living with Parkinsons disease, and being diagnosed with breast cancer. Maxwell narrates how her easy-going nature put her in odd and incongruous places as diverse as a sheep station, an R.AA.F Hercules Aircraft, and a sleazy bar in Cambodia. Biography of a Bad Boomer tells about the twists and turns in Maxwells life and the important lessons she has learned from all of them.
Download or read book Inspirational Reflections and Musings with a Simpler Flair written by Robert Elias Ballard and published by Putz Ballard. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all are prone to reflect on our life expereinces. sometimes they are the spiritual things that have impacted our lives and at other times they are simply the thoughts that brought us joy and happiness. In my short book I have written down some of the reflections and musings which are unique to me but at the same time are common to many and readers will soon have their own musings and recollections stirred.
Download or read book Boom written by Mary Brown and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Baby Boomer women spending over a trillion dollars a year, the days of 40+ women being ignored by marketers are numbered BOOM is a comprehensive guide to identifying, reaching and influencing these women. The book features insights and case histories from 40 top marketers, including executives from Intel, Ford, Seabourn Cruises, Citigroup, Wellpoint, Mary Kay, and more. Key features This is the only book on marketing to this specific demographic. Baby Boomers are the largest generational demographic today, and women not only outnumber men, but also influence as much as 80% of household purchase decisions Includes: The Eight Things You May Not Know About Boomer Women But Should, the Imago Diagnostic (ID), an assessment tool to help marketers identify what makes Baby Boomer women tick and more
Download or read book A Tongue in the Sink written by Dennis Fried and published by Eiffel Press. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous memoir about growing up in a small town in the 1950s, and reflections on the changing nature of childhood and on aging.
