With time on their hands and money in their pockets, Baby Boomers are looking for creative and relaxing ways to spend both. Today, the travel industry is reaping the rewards. Offering Baby Boomer vacations that are specifically-designed to meet the needs of Boomers, travel package companies are working hard to give Boomers exactly what they want. After all, Boomers have special needs and the money to fulfill those needs.
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Recently, I was enjoying the company of three delightful women. We were part of a bigger group – all single. I hadn’t experienced such generosity for quite a long time and it was delightful. Along, came a man who sat down beside me, a very pleasant man. And immediately, things were different. It was surprising to me to see these delightful women change to being unpleasant, rude and quite hostile – not to me; to him. It started me thinking about being single in the Baby Boomer years and what I witness each time I go to events like...
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But the thrill of Mazatlan is still on. Returning to Mazatlan is very much like going from your parent’s well ordered house to your crazy aunt’s apartment where anything goes. Coming from the sedate San Miguel with its muted colours and controlled architecture, we revel in the wackiness of Mazatlan. Houses are painted in shades of lemon, lime, blueberry and raspberry with curry trim. It’s such a fine line. I wish for more control, I wish for less control. Nothing is perfect. I learn that on October 26, Ritchies Auction House formally declared bankruptcy owing over 8.5 million. Well,...
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I’ve been wanting to try hot yoga for some time now. I could imagine the benefits, I could feel the heat warming my bones on a cold February day, it was just a matter of finding the right environment. For those of you who read my earlier article “Discover Yoga – a Gift for the Rest of your Life”- you’ll recall I embarked on a yoga journey at age 58, exactly three years ago. I’d already experienced a huge shift in my body and wanted to build on my range of motion. Winter set in at a bone chilling...
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I must have read hundreds of articles about how people should behave in interviews, what they should say, how they should dress, the research they should do… yawn! I would like to throw something in the ring to those who are interviewing potential employees and ask them: do you think about what you are doing? Do you think about what your style of interviewing is like and do you put a smile on your face to make the person on the other side of the table feel relaxed or are you stiff lipped and tense because you’re also nervous?
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Genealogy as a hobby is growing by leaps and bounds in North America. It is becoming the second most popular hobby, mostly driven be it's increasing popularity among the baby boomer generation.
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Over time, I have revised my opinion about hot yoga. It could be ideal for your body, but it did not suit mine at all. During my 6 months in the “hot room” I experienced rapid heart beat, and the inability to cool my body down. Often it would take hours. Because I sweated so much I needed to...
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September is like being shut in a hot steam sauna and you can’t get out. No one will ever pass by to unlock the door. While we promised Warren we’d spend next Carnaval in Guadalajara with him, the high humidity has forced us to break that promise. As Soren checks the internet for apartments to rent, Alfredo has pointed...
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How will you know if you have a good life and a fit body? When you visit your doctor, do you ever bother to ask him that question? Good life and fitness are somehow synonymous, but not all people will readily agree to that. If you’re fit, then you’re bound to have a good life in terms of being...
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Our rooftop dinner overlooking the cathedral wasn’t going so well. The meat would have made an excellent pair of sandals, not even remotely bred for chewing, so we jettisoned that effort and headed over to the potato lady in front of the Hidalgo Square, at Angel Flores and Campana. We’ve been meaning to sample her wares for weeks, and...
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The coming retirement stage of baby boomers has become a public major concern. It is partly due to the financial pressures that will arise when they collect Medicare and Social Security benefits. Moreover, there are claims saying that adequate private savings are never accumulated by boomers to support their retirement. However, standards was not created and accepted by boomers...
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Liars. Cheaters. Deceivers. Robbers. Oh, I’m not talking about anyone in Mexico, these are the owners and operators of Ritchies Auction House. We are in Mazatlan. The bad guys are in Toronto. We feel helpless, like all innocent victims of fraud. We phone our good friend, Peter O’Neil and ask if he will be...
This is a delightful, feel-good page turner. The book jacket describes it as a “funny mystery novel”. It’s not even in the mystery ballpark, but it is funny. You can’t help but adore the hero, Eddie Perlmutter. He’s an ex cop from Boston who retires to Boca Raton – which rhymes with “tone”. He’s...
You are swimming in debt. You have 4 credit cards maxed out, a car loan, a consumer loan, and a house payment. Simply making the minimum payments is causing your distress and certainly not getting you out of debt. What should you do?Some people feel that debt consolidation loans are the best option. A...
Well, part of Pepe’s e mail is true. The “we wait for you” sentence is correct. Pepe, his wife and four children live in their original family home next door to us. They built the two storey apartment last year as an investment and to supplement Pepe’s fishing income. “Let’s go fishing with Pepe’s...
Peter Buffett ends his book with the sentence “This is a very personal book, so let me end it on a personal note”. He then writes “First and foremost, this book has been a way for me to think out loud.” The book jacket carries endorsement blurbs by Bill Clinton, Bono, Bill and Melinda...
#1 – You set vague goals. The biggest reason why people fail is because they do not know what they want. I recently asked my colleague Wendy what she wanted in life. She said “I want to be rich”. This is an ambitious and achievable goal, however it is vague, not measurable and it...
Peter Buffett ends his book with the sentence “This is a very personal book,...
#1 – You set vague goals. The biggest reason why people fail is because...
The damp, cold, grey days of May are easier to accept than the reception...
