Yellow Pages, land-line telephones and film cameras are three things that come to mind. Changes are happening faster than at any time in history, thanks to the age of technology. Businesses are looking for opportunities to cause a sea change in the products and services we use. Younger Americans embrace this progress, but older consumers [...]
After his swim practice, I took my grandson for a bite to eat before taking him home. As usual, he got to pick where we would eat. I was not surprised when he chose McDonald’s, since we had not eaten there for several months. When viewing the menu board, I noticed calorie counts are now [...]
What a difference a couple of years can make. Compare the youngest pre-boomers, born during the war years, and the oldest boomers, born in the last part of the ‘40s. They grew up in very distinct eras. So, while there are many similarities among them, the cultural differences are apparent.
War babies may not remember living [...]
The “Golden Years” may not be what many expected. As the US population continues to grow older, with the first of the boomers now turning 65, there’s a growing concern that many facing their retirement years are unprepared to enter this next phase of life. Will society let them fall through the cracks?
There’s plenty of [...]
We are now entering the tenth year of the war in Afghanistan. Yet a decade of fighting hardly gets the news coverage or interests the average Americans as we try to recover from the financial whole we have dug even though the war is a substantial drain on the US Treasury. The toll in American [...]
