The Boomer Magazine

7 Stories of Hope: ‘It’s Given Me My Life Back’ — Backpack-size portable heart driver fills in for a transplant – BY ROB WALKER – For the first time in two years, Paula Heggins was home for the holidays. She’d spent the previous two in the hospital dealing with a hereditary heart condition that came close [...]

Do you ever notice that young people often talk in technology terms? They seem to have their own language much different than the Boomer’s language of the 60s and 70s.  We used to say a great experience was “bomb” or the movie Yellow Submarine was psychedelic.  Perhaps our parents were bewildered by our choice of [...]

Editor’s Letter: Too Smart? Phones and constant social media enrich our lives … if by that you mean controlling every minute of them BY RAY McALLISTER Some technological advancements, everyone would agree, are life enhancers. Indoor plumbing. Heating and air conditioning. The telephone. Personal computers and the Internet, I think we could say unequivocally, are [...]

But there are many ways to read BOOMER -DARYL McCUISTON- I tried to move something on my laptop’s monitor the other day with my finger. No mouse. Just finger-to-screen interaction. Needless to say, it didn’t work. This wasn’t some weird experiment or me testing the functionality of my laptop. It was my natural reaction, conditioned [...]

As the old story goes, Sir Isaac Newton has an apple to thank for demonstrating the Universal Law of Gravitation. A universal truth was revealed and we have dispatched with our irrational fears of floating off into space. Recently, another apple has called that law into question. Apple’s stock has been performing at levels that [...]