As winter has descended on us here in Maine, I can’t help but think about the S-word: Snow. Winter can be a b**ch, to put it bluntly. The whole winter’s-upon-us awareness also has me thinking about how my perception of things like bad weather has changed as I’ve gotten older. When I was in my […]
I used to hate my name. My mother said she named me Roxanne after some obscure actress who had a few fleeting moments of fame back in the early fifties. When you’re young, you want nothing more than to fit in, and my name stood out. I longed for a more common moniker, like Ann […]
Turnabout is fair play. A while back, I did a blog post about Girl Scout badges that we boomer women should be awarded for our achievements as adults. Now it’s your turn, guys. Here’s an assortment of merit badges you could earn, along with the tasks you need to complete to do so. One caveat: […]
We baby boomers came of age in a time of radical social change, not the least of which was the sexual revolution. Women’s lib empowered young women to claim their rights in the bedroom. The Pill freed us from fear of unwanted pregnancy. “Free love” and “Make love, not war” were bywords of our generation. […]
If you were a Girl Scout in the fifties or sixties, remember the badges we earned (or didn’t, depending on our proclivities)? Most of them focused on traditional stuff like homemaking, sewing and cooking. Well, we’ve come a long way, baby. So it occurred to me that we should be awarded an entirely different set […]
Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina—now campaigning to be the GOP’s presidential candidate—said a while back that she could improve the U.S. economy by cutting federal workers’ pay because they’re “watching porn all day long.” My first reaction was, “Seriously?” But evidently I’d completely missed the news about a May 2014 inspector general’s report on […]
If you’re a baby boomer like me, you first knew SPAM® as that canned meat product made mainly from ham. Since the dawn of the Internet, however, we’ve become all too well acquainted with the truly inedible spam that arrives via email. My email is served with a daily side of spam, most of it […]
