My Generation Magazine
My Generation Magazine (ME) Feb 2012
Everybody in my family who’s dead has died of cancer.
In your face, heart disease.
Years ago, my doctor gave up bothering to check my cholesterol, which when last recorded looked like the kind of SAT score that gets you into an Ivy League... Read More
My Generation Magazine (ME) Feb 2012
At the risk of sounding like a braggart, I’m more than tickled that I refinanced my mortgage a few months ago. I rolled together a mortgage, second mortgage, and a balance on a home equity line of credit and cut the combined monthly payment nea... Read More
My Generation Magazine (ME) Feb 2012
Protecting animals, teaching English to adults, planting gardens, helping to save endangered species or sitting quietly with hospice patients, the baby boomers in this issue of My Generation have more than their age in common.
Each of the indi... Read More
My Generation Magazine (ME) Feb 2012
Now that my son is a grown man, I am often at a loss for advice he requests of me. I am usually taken off guard when he asks my opinion about his concerns.Truthfully, I believe this is a characteristic of someone maturing enough to ask their elders f... Read More
My Generation Magazine (ME) Feb 2012
After years of dating, writer Hannah Holmes marries for the first time in her 40s.
As she approached her mid-40s, Hannah Holmes had absolutely no interest in getting married.
She was, as she says, “fundamentally independent,” and a &ldq... Read More
My Generation Magazine (ME) Feb 2012
One rainy spring day this year, I put off my daily walk and settled in with a bowl of popcorn to watch a favorite old movie on Turner Classic Movies, a favorite spot for early boomers. It was Bette Davis in “The Little Foxes.”
The gre... Read More