Heavy Breathing
Saturday, May 1st, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Health, family | 1 Comment »Recent reports suggest that there are no proven ways to slow the progression of Alzheimer's Disease. Not diet, not exercise, or supplements. I started keeping track of the aging process as I approach age 80 in hopes that it may ...
Happy Birthday Mary-Age 3
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, family | No Comments »You are such a smart sweet cute little red-headed girl. I hope you have a wonderful day ... which you will actually remember when you get older. Like most people, I don't remember anything before my 3rd birthday. I have one ...
Happy Birthday Joseph age 8
Saturday, April 10th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness, family | No Comments »Last year you were very good a creating your own original designs of things like airplanes, cars and monsters. Do you still have a great imagination? The dictionary meaning of imagination is; "the act or power of forming a mental ...
Brooks & I agree: “I See America Shining”
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, family | No Comments »Kids, I do on occasion, comment on newspaper columnist articles. David Brooks article called " Relax, we'll be fine" was already closed out for comments ... so I'll make my the comment in the Boomer News blog. It's very easy these days for ...
Happy 7th Birthday Molly
Thursday, March 18th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, family | 2 Comments »Happy Birthday! Have your parents ever taken you to a movie for your Birthday? In 1938, when I was 7 years old I got to see the 1st animated full length movie in technicolor. It was a big treat as ...
Happy 16th Birthday Sam
Saturday, March 13th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, family | 1 Comment »Sam, what do I wish for you? I wish for you to be a happy and confident person as you begin your 17th year on this planet. At your parent's rehearsal dinner I asked everyone there to finish the ending ...
Happy 6th Birthday Emma
Sunday, March 7th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, family | 1 Comment »You are a very pretty girl. We love talking to you on the phone. Grandma tells me you like horses. Of course you know your mom had a horse and went to college to do veterinarian work. Your mom can ...
The Boomer News Survey
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, family | 1 Comment »Grandpa would like the parents and family adults to do a survey on the past 3.5 years of Boomer News blogs. It can be anonymous. Just write "yes" or "no" if you think that grandchildren would be "interested in" or "not interested" these topics. (Submit Y ...
Can Grandpa compete with Facebook?
Saturday, February 20th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, family | 1 Comment »The focus of this blog has been on our eleven grandchildren and of course the parents and adults of our immediate family. If I add in relatives and friends, The Boomer news has a potential circulation of 30 to 40 readers. According to ...
Happy 5th Birthday Jen
Thursday, February 18th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, family | 2 Comments »I really enjoy all the pictures of you that your dad has been sending to grandma and me recently. Even though we are separated by many miles we get to see you grow as the pictures come rolling in from ...
What we have here is a Bimodal Distribution
Saturday, February 13th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, family | No Comments »Since we are trying to push for a data base to generate long term forecasts of the national and world most important issues, grandpa wants to point out a present day problem in America that needs attention. To do this ...
You Can’t Have Your Cake & Eat it Too
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Newsweek, family | 1 Comment »It's a confusing old English quote. It started out as; "Have one's cake and eat it" to the more commonly used negative quote; "You can't have your cake and eat it too." Which means you can't have it both ways ...
Back to the drawing board
Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, TV News Media, family | No Comments »After looking into the difficulties and and the huge effort to set up a dedicated Forecast Channel built around charts & graphs to get accurate data on the world and national mid to long term problems, I've concluded that it ...
The Geezers’ Crusade
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, TV News Media, family | No Comments »Before we push forward on our dedicated graphics TV channel, I will fill you in on the comments I made on a David Brooks NYTimes articles ... The Geezers' Crusade. Here it is: "I hope old geezers like myself can make a difference. I'm 79 ...
It’s better to trust … than not trust
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, TV News Media, family | No Comments »What do you do kids when you feel you can't trust your government and you can't trust many of our influential business leaders? Where do we turn for truthful information? In a recent article by David Brooks called; "Politics in the age of Distrust" he offers ...
Boomer News to Grandpa Boomers
Monday, January 25th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, family | No Comments »I'm not from the Boomer Generation. So why did I call my blog the Boomer News? Because in 1941, when I was in the 5th grade in grammar school, I wrote a hand written newspaper for the 5th graders that I ...
Thanks to all that came before
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, family | No Comments »Kids, as I will be completing 79 years on planet Earth on my next birthday in a few months, I reflect on this Thanksgiving, how amazingly lucky ...and thankful I am to have been born in my particular spacetime. When ...
Chapter One
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness, family | No Comments »The Genesis of Thinking There are many words that have been written about "the last days" ... the time when conscious thoughts on Earth will end. Not many words have been written about "the first days" ... when the first conscious ...
Thinking about Thinking
Sunday, October 18th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, family | No Comments »This will be a series of blogs to the parents of the grandchildren that I have been writing blogs to for the past 3 years. The youngest 5 kids are too young to read their grandpa's blogs. The oldest 6 are ...
Happy 14th Birthday Jack
Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, family | 1 Comment »Well, what was I doing at age 14 Jack? Let's compare notes. Let's go to the book I wrote and see what I was doing at your age. There are two sections within each chapter. Section 1 were my childhood stories. Section ...