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I’m Not “Over the Hill,” I’m Still Trying to Climb Up It!

Welcome to the newest blog on the block. Yes, we fully understand you have more than enough drivel to read through these days so we promise to keep these missives short and to the point. So what are we doing here? Well, as the name of the blog implies this is for and about baby boomers. You know who you are. We don’t care about Gen-x, Gen-y, Gen-z, anyone under 30 or anyone who came of age in the generation before us. They got “theirs” and are happily retired and drive BMW’s now. How nice for them.

This is not a bitch session about how unfair the world has been or still is. However, we do believe that survival is a lot easier if you can look at the humor in things. Remember the magazine National Lampoon, by Doug Kenney and his irreverent Harvard pals? It made fun of everything and kept us laughing through difficult times. We don’t pretend to have half the talent of that crew, but we do notice things that go on in every day life that no one ever seems to talk about. And isn’t that what this generation once stood for? Bringing things into the light and at least trying to get to the truth? Well maybe some of us were preoccupied with sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll, but Time-Life books all say we were serious about changing the world.

So we hope to touch on some of the mostly humorous little events of daily life for baby boomers in the modern age. Things have changed dramatically since the 60’s and 70’s. Some for the better (flat screen tv, central a/c and cars that always start), some for the worse (skyhigh divorce rates, more war, continued race issues). But we will try to look past all that to how we deal with the really important things in life – expiration dates on food, online banking, texting while driving and bosses who are twenty-years younger than we are. We may also dip into regional issues that affect us, such as why is there an oil spill or hurricane whenever I book at hotel on the Gulf of Mexico coastline? Does the NY Transit Authority REALLY need to charge $8 to cross over a bridge? or why are there so many others who seem to have discovered my secret getaway places?

The bottom line is that despite being totally ignored by (what used to be) Madison Avenue, despite being relegated to the junk heap by every post-boomer generation, despite being blamed for the lousy state of the world by the same kids we gave up protests in order to raise, and despite being “over-qualified” or “too senior” for just about every job in the world, the Boomer generation is still here. Somehow we all became part of the silent majority and never really did teach the world to sing (was that Pepsi or Coke?). Somehow the largest generation ever became obsolete and obscure, or did we? It’s time to speak up and be noticed again. As Jim Morrison sang, “they got the guns but we got the numbers.” Well maybe that’s a bit too extreme now but I think you all understand what I mean. If we can’t change the world, maybe we can make banks fire the machines and hire people. Or maybe we can force car companies to put lumbar support in all their models. Or maybe we can speak up to let everyone else know…

….We’re not “over the hill,” we’re still trying to climb up it!