Do you remember when we wore granny dresses? They were countrified and prudish long dresses with high necks, long sleeves, and lots of ruffles. I think they may have been a solution to the mid-calf mini- skirts we were wearing. Granny dresses haven’t exactly gone away but are now a little sexier. They’re also comfortable and an attractive clothing item to wear now that … [Read more...]
Remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Hero for Women
I had been escaping from the Internet for most of the day when I happened to check my Twitter feed. I couldn’t believe it! Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was gone! Many of us hoped she’d last through January and yet it was amazing she made it so long. She died of pancreatic cancer. I know how brutal that disease is because my boyfriend died from it at the beginning of the year. … [Read more...]
Andy Rosen: Making Music to Sustain my Sanity and Purpose
My journey has been an interesting one. From my youth growing up with a major league baseball player for a father. To my middle age, flirting with pop music stardom and life on the road. To now, navigating life in my 60s as an Entertainer and cancer survivor. The one constant that has kept me sane and positive, has been music. When I first started to try music as a career, … [Read more...]
High School Classes That Made Us the Baby Boomers We Are Today
It was inspiring to watch the Parkland students so articulately express their thoughts after the horrendous shooting they personally experienced. Their debate classes paid off. Now they are making a huge difference in the political landscape even though some “adults” protest they should have stayed in class and have even threatened them with bodily harm. It made me think of the … [Read more...]
Remembering President Kennedy as a Baby Boomer Kid
The Baby Boomer generation extends from 1949 – 1964 and I’m smack dab in the middle, born in 1953. I was 10-years-old the day President Kennedy was assassinated and remember it like it was yesterday. The fact that classified documents dealing with the assassination are being released to the public after 50 years is a big deal. Who doesn’t wonder what really happened and why? … [Read more...]
