Can Restaurant Chains be the Answer to a Healthier America?

The new year brought with it the normal resolutions, many of which have already been broken.  One at the top of most peoples’ lists is to lose weight.  Of course, eating better along with exercise is the best way to reach this goal.  The eating part of the equation has gotten easier thanks to the [...]

Collecting Things is Lots of Fun

As a pre-boomer growing up, I collected all kinds of stuff.  Stones and sea shells were the first items I stored away.  Toy soldiers and emblems from WWII were the fun part of the war.  Later it was coins and stamps.  As I got into sports, my collection of baseball and football cards was a [...]

Is Anyone Looking Out for You?

Pre-boomers (those born between 1930 and 1945) seem to be harboring a growing fear even despair about the future, especially when it comes to financial matters.  This saddens me, because it is my belief that we New Seniors are now the moral compass of America.  With our help, the nation should be able to steer [...]

A Pre-boomers View of Climate Change

If politics and ideology were not part of the issue, I believe pre-boomers could come together and find a practical, common-sense solution for dealing with climate change, greenhouse gases and preserving our planet for the health and well-being of our grand children and the generations to follow.

We grew up in an era when factories belching [...]

Pre-boomers are Coming Together as the Country Continues to Polarize

Will it take a crisis of cataclysmic proportions to shake us from our lofty ideological perches to unite Americans again?  Long gone is the patriotism of World War II; and, to lesser degrees, the citizens’ willingness to enter the First Gulf War and the initial reaction when the World Trade Centers were taken down by [...]

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