If you were visiting looking for more information about baby Boomers and the issues they face, you'll see that this blog has changed a little. Read on and find out what I have planned for this new version of my blog.

I came across the novel Brave New World the other day. There it was sitting on my bookshelf untouched for more than a quarter of a century. I’m sure I read it back in the day, when I was in my late teens and full of that angst we all seemed to have about the state the world was in, but for the life of me I couldn’t remember what it was about. It’s typical of today’s world that instead of getting up and walking the ten feet to my book shelf and thumbing through it, I looked it up on Wikipedia. I discovered that Aldous Huxley wrote it in 1931 as an anti-utopian parody challenging the belief that progress is always good.

Being a writer can be lonely sometimes and after a few rejections, or worse a dozen or so ignored queries, you can start to become paranoid. Imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon a site that offered me a cross between an online business club and family gathering?

The Echo generation (born 1979-90) seem to be the bane of Boomer's lives; rather than being called Echo's they should be called Boomerangs, but I suppose both keep coming back so either moniker works well. Investors Group just released the details of a survey that found that 60% of Boomers are financially supporting their adult children to the tune of $3,675 a year. Not surprisingly we are said to be unhappy that our children are not financially self-sufficient. My comment below (an extract from the book I am writing called The Über Boomer: How to Beat the Crap Out of Aging).

Perceived age as clinically useful biomarker of ageing: cohort study. Abstract of full article published by the British Medical Journal. For full article follow this link http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/dec11_2/b5262

I looked in the mirror the other day and saw a late forties guy in a mid fifties body looking back at me. Mentally, we Boomers have just not accepted that we are getting older: as Walker Smith and Ann Clurman say in their book Generation Ageless “Boomers don’t intend to age; they want to be ageless”. What does this mean?

So, why am I so fascinated with the baby boom generation? The main thing that turns my crank is the sheer power and influence this demographic has on the world. It is those of us born between 1946 and 1964 that have shaped the world we know today, and whether we have done a good job or a terrible one is very much up for debate; but one thing is for certain; while there are still so many of us we can’t be ignored!