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With Another Summer Upon Us, Linda Ballou Shares Stories of Rivers She Has Known and Loved
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate As temperatures begin to soar, I dream of the rivers I have known and loved. Tension mounts as I hear the rumble of rapids roiling ahead....
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Carolina On My Mind: Blue Ridge to the Coast
OUR MAY ARMCHAIR TRIP: CAROLINA ON MY MIND: BLUE RIDGE TO THE COAST By Carolee Duckworth, NABBW's Independent Travel Associate Ahhh. It’s May. And we’re back to all the green and...
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Buena Ventura- Land of Good Fortune
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate Ventura is a beach town with a laid-back vibe that is the gateway to some great adventures. About an hour north of Los Angeles spectacular...
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Shirley Meerson Reminds Us: SELF-CARE CEO - Hire Yourself Today
By Shirley Meerson, CHWC ~ NABBW's Ageless Wellness Lifestyle Associate It’s time to appoint Yourself, as the CEO of your self-care. A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the...
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Post-Menopausal Zest! Why You Should Be Embracing It!
By Lorraine Miano, NABBW's Holistic Menopause Health Associate “There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.” -- Margaret Mead, Anthropologist So,...
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Our April Armchair Trip: Napa Valley, San Francisco & The Pacific Highway
OUR APRIL ARMCHAIR TRIP: NAPA VALLEY, SAN FRANCISCO & THE PACIFIC HIGHWAY By Carolee Duckworth, NABBW's Independent Travel Associate We’re ready to take off again on our April...
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OUR MARCH ARMCHAIR TRIP: Blues, Soul, Rock & Jazz: Memphis to New Orleans “Riding on the City of New Orleans”
OUR MARCH ARMCHAIR TRIP: Blues, Soul, Rock & Jazz: Memphis to New Orleans “Riding on the City of New Orleans” By Carolee Duckworth, NABBW's Independent Travel Associate So,...
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As the World Struggles It's Way Into the New Normal, Here Are Linda Ballou's Travel Tips for 2022
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate The only thing certain about travel in 2022 is that it is uncertain. People are chomping at the bit to travel again but need to remain...
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Carolee Duckworth Continues on a Southerly Route for Our Awesome February Armchair Trip
By Carolee Duckworth, NABBW's Independent Travel Associate OUR FEBRUARY ARMCHAIR TRIP: Southern Beauties...Charleston & Savannah (with Jekyll) Let’s head back to our comfy...
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Phyllis Stoller Suspects We Boomers Are Actually Safer From Covid If We're Traveling Outside the US Than We Are at Home
By Phyllis Stoller, NABBW's Group Travel Associate You might be safer overseas than in the US or Canada. I just returned from 3 trips: one to Paris, one to Tuscany and London and an October...
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Have You Heard of 'Obesogens?' If You're Post-Menopausal, You Need to Know How to Avoid Them, As They Are Likely Sabotaging Your Weight & Health
By Lorraine Miano, NABBW's Holistic Menopause Health Associate During the post-menopause years, many women find that they have difficulty maintaining a healthy weight. Unfortunately, obesity has...
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How Are You Feeling These Days? Worn Down From Trying to Protect Yourself Against Coronavirus? Join the Club!
By Anne L. Holmes, NABBW's Boomer in Chief How are you feeling? We need to talk about the current coronavirus situation, as the numbers of infected people have been climbing since this past...
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Our January Armchair Trip: Miami South Beach & Down the Keys to Key West
By Carolee Duckworth, NABBW's Independent Travel Associate Oh baby, it’s cold outside! Clearly winter is upon us. The world has turned drab and neutral, a dull pallet of brown and gray. Not a dot...
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"How to Retire On Your Own Terms: Tips Especially for Women" Is Our December 2021 NABBW Financial Planning Podcast, Featuring Pamela J. Sams, CRPC, BFA, MBA and Trusted Advisor to Professional Women
Here Are the Details for the Zoom Podcast: Topic: How to Retire On Your Own Terms: Tips for Women Time: Dec 23, 2021 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) It's EASY To Join the Zoom...
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Linda Ballou Shares Why Winter Is A Perfect Time to Enjoy a "Wild Time" on the Central Coast of California
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate Winter on the Central Coasts means fewer tourists and plentiful wildlife. Birds and marine mammals gather there in chaotic profusion from December...
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Join Us for NABBW's November 2021 Financial Podcast Featuring Pamela J. Sams, CRPC: Year-End Financial Checklist: Thursday November 18th
I am happy to announce our November 2021 NABBW Financial Podcast featuring Pamela J. Sams, CRPC, MBA, BFA and Trusted Advisor to Professional Women, which takes place this coming Thursday, and YOU...
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You May Not Be "Past That!"
By Lorraine Miano, for the NABBW The information in this article is provided for educational purposes only. If you have a health concern, please contact your healthcare provider. "Oh,...
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Tips for Adopting a Renter Lifestyle after Having Been a Homeowner
Many of us have plans to "retire in place," maintaining our family homestead, which is generally larger than we might currently need, because it allows us space for hosting holiday family...
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Book Reviews

Gramps Jeffrey Ponders Our Nation's Opioid Overdose Epidemic and the Proliferation of Homeless Baby Boomers, Wonders Why We Can't Do More
Guest post by Gramps Jeffrey, author of “I Don’t Want to Turn 3” For years, we Baby Boomers have viewed ourselves as the best generation our great country has ever seen. Prior to...
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Book Review: "I Don't Want to Turn 3" Is A Fun Kid's Picture Book - With a Subtle Lesson
I Don't Want to Turn 3 By Gramps Jeffrey Reviewed for the NABBW by Anne Holmes This sweet picture book is author Gramps Jeffrey's first. He wrote it after having the opportunity to spend...
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'Baby Boomer Investing in the Perilous Decade of the 2020s': Ronald Surz Pens Timely Book Based on His Engaging Baby Boomer Investing Show
According to author Ronald Surz, most of us Baby Boomers are going to be spending much of this decade (the 2020's, which are still in early days) in what he calls the Risk Zone - his term for the ten...
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Travel Wings Clipped by Pandemic, Adventure Travel Writer Linda Ballou Pens Historical Novel About Equestrian Explorer Lady Isabella Lucy Bird: Embrace of the Wild
I was not initially familiar with the story of Englishwoman Lady Isabella Lucy Bird, so I didn't know what to expect when I began reading Linda Ballou's newest book, Embrace of the Wild: Inspired by...
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Heidi Herman's Book 'On With the Butter' Advises How to Spread More Living Onto Everyday Life
Being originally from Wisconsin, which boasts being The Dairy State, I have alway loved cooking, baking and eating foods made with real butter. (I'm actually a butter snob, truth be told.) So when...
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Art Barry's Book "The Downsize Side Hustle," Offers Seniors a Winning Way to "Bet the House"
If you're a home-owning Baby Boomer looking for a profitable side hustle, this book is for you. You'll be especially interested if, going forward, your personal housing preference is not to move...
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Ralph Mroz's Book, "The Senior Years Master Plan," Is Your Field Guide to End of Life Planning
As author Ralph Mroz states in the first sentence of this book, we're all going to die. But, he says, the more important question is, how hard is dealing with your death going to be - both for you...
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Against My Father's Will: A Memoir
Against My Father's Will: A Memoir By Jane Morgan Barry Reviewed for the NABBW by Anne Holmes If you're a Baby Boomer woman, you grew up in the late 50s, the 60s and 70s, a time of great...
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Barry Silverstein's Latest Book, "Boomer Brand Winners and Losers," Is a Fun Read and a Walk Down Memory Lane
Perhaps all of us have moments when one of our more mundane thoughts crystalizes and remains frozen in our memory forever, though we don't know why. I've had many of these over my lifetime. For...
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Member Articles

Gramps Jeffrey: Too Many Grandparents Just Don’t Care
Guest Post By Gramps Jeffrey, author of "I Don't Want to Turn 3" According to an often-quoted sociology study, "Grandparents and Family Crisis," by Cherin & Furstenberg, 30% of grandparents...
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Trina O'Quinn Shares Her List of Things You Shouldn’t Say to Someone Who Is Grieving
By Trina O'Quinn for the NABBW “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” ~ John Lennon, lyric from “Beautiful Boy,” from his last album, 'Double Fantasy,' with...
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High on Positive Energy, Member Maggie Davenport Discusses the Importance of HOPE (Especially If You've Let Your New Years Resolutions Slip)
By Maggie Davenport for the NABBW Winter. A time of natural rest and retreat, of wrapping ourselves in fluffy blankets and settling down, reflecting (or not!). Meanwhile, in perfect sync...
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Gramps Jeffrey Ponders Our Nation's Opioid Overdose Epidemic and the Proliferation of Homeless Baby Boomers, Wonders Why We Can't Do More
Guest post by Gramps Jeffrey, author of “I Don’t Want to Turn 3” For years, we Baby Boomers have viewed ourselves as the best generation our great country has ever seen. Prior to...
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In Which Trina Clarifies the Difference Between Journals vs. Diaries, and Shares Her Personal Journaling Journey
By Trina O'Quinn for the NABBW In reviewing the blogs that I have written over the last year and a half, I have discovered they have some common themes. These themes are: - The...
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At This Time in Our Lives, We Baby Boomer’s Need to Realize One of Our Most Important Roles Is Mentoring Our Grandchildren
Guest post by Gramps Jeffrey, author of “I Don’t Want to Turn 3” I remember celebrating my father’s 60th birthday, and I did not say this out loud, but definitely thought “he is an old...
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'Self-Care' Is Not Synonymous with 'Self Indulgence.' Trina O'Quinn Discusses How Her Definition Has Evolved Since She First Encountered the Term in the 1970s
By Trina O'Quinn for the NABBW Since March of 2020, it seems that the only subject I have see written or spoken about is “self-care.” I was first introduced to the concept of self-care in...
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Trina Ponders the Meaning of Silver and Gold Friendships
By Trina O'Quinn for the NABBW All day, no -- for many weeks -- I've been ruminating on this song: “Make new friends but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold.” I learned it almost 70...
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Trina O'Quinn Takes a Tuneful Deep Dive, Reflects on How Boomers Have Impacted Music and Popular Culture
By Trina O'Quinn for the NABBW Recently during a water physical therapy session, I was walking my laps and the music of my youth began to play. I looked around the pool and noticed that the six of...
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As Mother's Day Approaches, Linda Ballou Recalls Her Recent Visit to "Mom's Meadow" - And Delivering the Fruitcake
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate After eleven years, I decided it was time to deliver the fruitcake my mother had sent me in 2009 just before she passed away. I would take...
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Come Along With Me As I Share My Experiences and Observations as a Woman with One Foot in the Traditional World and One in the Modern World.
By Trina O'Quinn for the NABBW The generation known as the Baby Boomers is now aged somewhere between 57 and 75. When I began to write this months’ blog post, I realized that that this...
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In Which I Realize The Pandemic Experience Has Helped Me Finally Figure Out What It Means to "Stop and Smell the Roses"
By Trina O'Quinn for the NABBW I have heard the expression, “stop and smell the roses” since I was 19 years old. This has been 56 years of my life. That is the entire length of my...
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Medicare in the Time of COVID-19: Here's What You Need to Know
By Lindsay Engle for the NABBW It's been almost a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and just as you've had to adjust parts of your life to protect yourself and your family, Medicare has...
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List Making and Chronic Illness -- How I've Finally Learned to Turn My Daily List-Making Habit From "Foe" to "Friend"
By Trina O'Quinn for the NABBW: I have always been a list maker. That is how I, as a dyslexic, had learned to accomplish the things that had to be done. I would start my day by listing what I...
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Living with Chronic Illness: Whether it's COPD, Fibromyalgia, Diabetes, Cancer Or Another Condition, We Know Our Chronic Illnesses Will Persist Even After There's a Vaccine for COVID
By Trina O'Quinn for the NABBW: Before I begin let me define the terms I am going to be discussing. There are two: 1- Chronic Illness and 2- Acute Illness. These explanations come from the Center...
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Mark 10/23/20 on Your Calendar Now: You're Specially Invited to "Zoom In" On Ways You Can Fight Agism, As Pro-Aging Guru Ashton Applewhite Is Interviewed By DefyingGravity.life Founders Via Webinar
Here Are the Key Event Details: "Aging While Female--Reimagined," A Zoom Webinar provided by DefyingGravity.life Featuring Pro-Aging Author and Activist Ashton Applewhite Friday, October...
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Disenfranchised Grief Caused by Undiagnosed Dyslexia
By Trina O'Quinn for the NABBW This past July, I fell, bruising my knees and shoulders and whiplashing my neck. Today, I am still recovering. What I have found is that at age 75, I am not...
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Rare Cancers in Women and Children Caused by Exposure to Toxic Household Items
Written for the NABBW by Kimberly Cruz-Montalvo, Community Outreach Representative for www.mesotheliomaguide.com When women and children are dolling themselves up, the last thing they expect is...
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