Getting This Show on the Road

Hey, my fellow Boomers. Now that we're officially and fully ensconced on the web, we can find plenty of sites designed to find a date or a great travel deal, assist us with our finances and caring for our elderly parents, and generally find information geared to our generation.

Very cool!

But nowhere is there a place for you to get the inspiration, insights and direction we all need at some point in our lives, from and for Boomers specifically - provided by a Boomer. Now there is.

We always were, and always will be, trailblazers; we take control, change what we don't like, and are at once cynics and optimists. Our parents may be members of the “greatest generation,” but at the very least, we Baby-boomers are members of the “pretty-damned- phenomenal generation.” After all, we have done some truly amazing, socially ground-breaking things.

Our generation gave America civil rights, and the world human rights; we gave women liberation, and brought all things sexual out of the closet. We are responsible for bringing computers into people’s homes and offices, wireless communications into our cars and hands, and hey, let’s not forget Velcro! We have given ourselves permission to leave bad marriages, were the first to embrace the importance of self-fulfillment, and made the work place employee- friendly. We brought value to environmental awareness, recognized that mental health is as relevant as (and a correlative to) physical health, and explored space, not to mention the Titanic. We refused to fight a trumped up “war, ” and gave the world Star Trek, The Force, and the tobacco settlement. We are a phenomenon to be reckoned with!

And we are again doing ground-breaking things, from reworking the looks of grand-parenthood to reinventing retirement. We need and deserve a place to work through the insecurities, questions, concerns, worries, that surround trying something new, so that we can land squarely on our feet feeling great about what we've accomplished.

That's what you have here, so don't hesitate to take full advantage of it! You can get professional advice/direction from me, and equally valuable ideas from your fellow Boomers on the site. It's better than individual and group therapy! (without the angst...and the couch...the fee...and no one saying "so...how does that make you feel?...").

Look forward to hearing from you.