Death is inevitable but it still hits us hard when a spouse dies, often resulting in unexpected feelings and reactions. This episode is a conversation with someone who lost her long-time husband this year and includes topics like the Importance of a support system, dealing with death details, understand family finances and looking to the future.

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Who knew gray would become such a trendy color? Boomers were surrounded by yellow, orange and green in the 70s and off-white in later years. This episode explores trend changes in color, music devices, TV and radio and vocabulary.

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Voice activated devices, vacuum cleaners that work when you’re not even there, working a job from home … TV show fantasies 60 years ago that are now aspects of daily life. Were the writers of those show visionaries, or were they visitors from advanced civilizations in other galaxies? This episode goes where others have gone, but with a couple of updates.

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What do Earth Day, Kent State University, Monday Night Football and a near-fatal space mission have in common? This episode answers that question.

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This episode includes Boomer wisdom and fun from the internet. Jokes, memes, sincere advice and a few demographic statistics.

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We experience deaths of loved ones more as we age, but grief and loss can happen across a whole range of losses, such as jobs and physical abilities. In this episode, clinical psychologist Dr. Cynthia Post provides insight into dealing with grief and loss. 

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They say age is just a number, but how does it feel when you realize that the songs “Satisfaction” and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” turn 60 this year? This episode dives into songs, movies, TV shows and cultural events from 1965.

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What things do you keep?  Pictures, souvenirs, old love letters? What do you toss? A lot of Boomers hang onto stuff, but Millennials usually don’t. This episode dives into trends, pros and cons of keeping things and suggests answers to the question “should they stay, or should they go?” 

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In our fast-paced workaholic world, it is sometimes nice to do nothing, even for just a few minutes a day. This episode explores what the Italians call “il dolce far niente” … the sweetness of doing nothing. Sometimes doing nothing is really something.

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We’re always looking out for and speaking out against age discrimination and aging stereotypes. But sometimes it’s fun to make fun of ourselves as we age. It can be healthy to not take ourselves too seriously. And humor is often based in some way on truth. 

This Boomer Randomness episode is a random collection of memes, dad jokes and a few observations on growing older.

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