Quite frankly, I’m worried. Our neighboring country seems to be sinking deeper and deeper into an alarming dystopian, circus show era, and I can’t help but wonder what we can do beyond cringing and hope that this will pass? The options are few, but here they are, as I see… Read More »Pinning our Hope on the Millennials
It’s only a matter of time. The massive Millennial generation born between 1980 and 2002, is waking up, and waiting for its moment to change the political landscape of America. Popular notions, many of them negative, have been circulating in leading newspapers and online media everywhere over the past few… Read More »New Study—Millennials Speak their Minds!
I wrote my first article for this online blog in June, 2015. I wrote about ageism, the wealth of aging boomers, and the generation born before the baby boomers, which I call the ‘Lucky Few’. The next month, I wrote about 50s fashion, what old people worry about, and how… Read More »My Life Online-A World View
People of my generation are old enough to have known the automobile in its infancy. We remember a car that had to be cranked with a handle in order to start—and once moving, was temperamental, cramped and offered a bumpy ride. We took this discomfort in stride. We appreciated the… Read More »Driverless cars are coming – Should older people care?
The baby boom still resonates in our society. So much has been said and written about the boomers, with constant speculation about what they will do next. With so much attention centered on them, and especially on their numbers, no one gives much thought to the women who were responsible… Read More »After the Boom – Children by Choice Not Circumstance
Dear Readers of Still the Lucky Few, It is almost a year since I launched this blog—a good time to send you my first newsletter! I won’t commit myself to a regular schedule for this, but will write you whenever I feel there is something regarding my blog that I’d… Read More »Still the Lucky Few Newsletter-April 2016
We are only days away from an election which will determine many aspects of our day to day lives for the next four years and beyond. As a senior voter, do you feel empowered? Are you hoping for a change in leadership? Or do you feel that it will be… Read More »Voting Preferences of Canadian Seniors
Long life is our greatest achievement. We, the Lucky Few, have lived longer than all previous generations. In “Redesigning Long Life“, the Stanford Center on Longevity reports, Over the next 30 years, the US population age 65+ will double from 40 million to 80 million, and the share of old… Read More »The Longevity Explosion
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