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Mattress Donation Made Easy

Joan Clark, editor of Tips Bulletin gave permission to reprint this excellent resource.

If your mattress is still in decent shape, give it a new home, and someone in need a wonderful gift.

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#donating #helping others #mattress donation

Boomers Get the Gig (economy)

Found this blog article; sharing it here because: a. It dispels the well circulated myth that we are not computer savvy (I know…we were the first to use computers, but that’s gotten lost in the minds of the young…sigh…) b. It highlights a terrific source of side income for those who don’t know about it.

Many thanks to Paige Kenny at inkhouse.com for the share.

https://www.wonolo.com/blog/in-the-a…

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Finally: Whites Losing US Majority

Finally: Whites Losing US Majority...to which I say..."yay!"

Recent articles in major newspapers around the country have reported the decline of the country’s White population, resulting in the loss of our (I’m White as you know) majority status by mid-century.

To which I say… “Yay!”

We’ve had hundreds of years in the majority, and have proven ourselves to be rather pathetic stewards of our power. From decimating Native American populations and enslaving…

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#bad behavior #ethnic minorities #lost majority #poor leadership #white people

So...Who's the Animal?

So…Who’s the Animal?

For millennia, humans have called other sentient species “animals” – dogs, cats, elephants, fowl, you get the idea. And, we use the term as a disparagement – “…he acted like an animal! It was awful!” Interesting, given that we, too, are animals… This was understandable at a time when barbaric practices like blood-letting and slavery were the norm, when humans thought other creatures to be…

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#animal treatment #being humane to animals #helping all animals #humane economy #other species

It’s not what you get, it’s what you do with it… My advice for my fellow Boomers who feel quite stuck - written for the Retirement and Good Living blog:

#empowerment #how to #living well #quality of life

An Open Letter to All US Gun Owners

The NRA (and the small minority of Americans/vast majority of gun manufacturers they represent) continuously complains that any restrictions on gun ownership will lead to a “slippery slope” ending in everyone’s guns being taken away. And indeed that fear has become a reality, but not the one they predict; instead they’ve done the slope slipping, from supporting some restrictions in the 80’s &…

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#boomer power #gun owners #guns #NRA #responsibility #second amendment

To All Boomers on the Dating Scene...

A Message to All Boomers on the Dating Scene

I’m dating…have been using a dating site for Boomers – better than some alternatives (hoping to meet someone while in the check-out line at the supermarket…), worse than others (finding like-minded people at your place of worship or interest groups). And might I say…What a trip! I’ve had many a fun time; I’ve also experienced things from the surprisingly stupid to the downright weird (coming…

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#Boomer Dating #Older singles #online date services #Single again

Amazing!?

Amazing!? Not anymore...

It made the pages of many a newspaper back in 2012 when they reported on Lake Superior State University’s annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness: “Amazing” received the most votes of any on the list. But as far back as 2010 the Chicago Tribune noted it as an overused, “run of the mill” discriptor, and it has remained on lists of “the…

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#lexicon;#no more amazing;#overusing "amazing"; vocabulary

How I Realized Poverty is Self-Perpetuating

This past Sunday, I found the following in the coupon section of the paper: “Buy a $50 Visa Gift Card and receive $10 off your order of $50 or more!” Well, hey, I can put together a list of things I need, or can use in future, that adds up to $50, and I can use that gift card to buy gas or other necessities; in the process I’ll save $10 on things I’d buy anyway! Good deal!

Then it hit me. I am…

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#bad schools #living wage #Poverty #uninsured #working poor

So...you think you love animals?

So…you think you love animals?

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Mahatma Gandhi

Americans have tremendous affection for their “other species family members” – we will spend over 55 Billion on our pets this year according to the Animal Health Foundation, with Boomers leading the way, literally: according to the AHF we were the first generation to normalize pet…

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#Activism #animal abuse #dogs and cats #pet parents #pets #responsible ownership

Boomers Make Poor Legislators...

Boomers Make Poor Legislators…

Today being the 70th anniversary of D-Day, got me thinking about our parents’ “Greatest” generation, what they lived through, and how bad Congress has become.

The connection?

When they were in Congress, work got done, taking care of our needs seemed to more often trump taking care of their own careers, they were not quite so easily bought. Nothing like making it through a great depression and a…

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#bad behavior #congress #the greatest generation #the me generation #voting

Why "Child Protective Services" are Not

Why “Child Protective Services” are Not

Prior to focusing my professional attention to advising my generation, I ran programs in NYC for homeless/runaway youth many of whom were in the child protection system at some point (drug addicted/AIDs infected/imprisoned parents) or had their own children in the system. I’ve been a Guardian ad Litem here in FL. I’ve been a foster parent(of a teen) in New Jersey. I know first hand what’s needed…

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#abused neglected children #child protection #DCF #state laws