The Boomer Magazine

She didn’t ask, but I knew Mom needed me — and I’m glad to be with her When Mom was younger, so much younger than today, she never needed help in any way. Now she’s 94 and recovering (nicely) from surgery. She lives independently in her own home, but with increasing difficulty. She didn’t quite ask, but [...]

I’d like to yield this publisher’s letter to my good cousin from Florida. Chrystie is my beau- tiful cousin who lives with ALS and blogs under the name “Twysted Sam.” ALS – more fully called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and more often called “Lou Gehrig’s Disease” – is a disease of the nerve cells in the [...]

A personal story of going beyond a ‘one-size-fits-all’ test – BY LORI ROSS –    Every medical test may not catch a serious problem. More than 50 percent of people who suffer a heart attack or stroke have normal cholesterol levels. Of course, cholesterol is just one example of health factors people should know about their [...]

BY LORI ROSS Self-help books frequently recommend letting go of self-limiting beliefs, and I normally assume they’re talking of really lofty, important beliefs. Sometimes they’re simply stupid little beliefs. In my case, little ones include hating eggplant. Or Las Vegas.  My 13-year-old self shared a road trip from Ohio to California with my parents, and Las [...]

  – BY LORI ROSS – – PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF ANN MEEKINS –    If you’ve been in Virginia for a while, nobody needs to tell you that there is a love affair with the “Rivah” home, as natives pronounce the word. With our location near the Atlantic Ocean, the Chesapeake Bay and many bay-feeding [...]

Why it matters to boomers, what it means … and why it may even be endangered — COMPILED BY LORI ROSS —  Welcome, class, to Art 101. Today’s class is about the Guitar exhibit at the Science Museum of Virginia. In each issue, BOOMER will find the right professor to teach, in essence, Art Appreciation regarding [...]

My mother is 94. She’s probably unaware how her lessons about being a parent taught me and comforted me in a way different from anybody else. Here are my top three:    1. ON: DR. LAURA GUILT When my child was a toddler in day care, Dr. Laura Schlessinger was popular on the radio, and [...]