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 [...]
As a pre-boomer I’ve had the opportunity to make scores of resolutions over the years, most of which I broke. So I have become reluctant to make these promises to myself, because of poor past performance. But after thinking about it, I concluded this is a copout. Surely there must be a resolution I can [...]
Two weeks before Christmas I was sitting on the tarmac at LAX in a crowded plane waiting for a mechanical problem to be fixed and thinking this was not the way to start the day. Nor was it conducive to conjuring up joyous thoughts for the holidays to come.
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Of course, traveling in the [...]
On a cold and snowy night, a group of people met in a backroom somewhere in our nation’s capital to make a deal. The outcome of the meeting was known by them and their associates long before their formal agreement was announced to an eager media corps. After all, the folks back home needed to [...]
First, few people know the definition of pre-boomers. It is those of us born between 1930 and 1945, from the beginning of the Great Depression through the end of World War II. Second, no one seems to know how many pre-boomers there are. The latest estimate is more than 30 million, which is three times [...]
