Boomers, It Turns Out, Are Still Crazy after All These Years

 I’m headed to the beach with friends next week for an end-of-the-summer blow-out. And it’s a safe bet that while I’m there that someone at some point will produce a joint.

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40 years after "Woodstock" . . . are we "back to the garden?"

First of all, I must say at the outset that I didn’t attend Woodstock in the summer of ’69.

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Ametrina Mazzio

Is 2012 the end of the world?


Remember Y2K in 2000? We awaited the malfunction of computers, electric grids, and so much more, yet not a thing happened.

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computer

"Computer" as a second language

For the third time today, different people have told me to “cut and paste” something.


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handbag

It’s in the Bag

Let me set the stage, because this is where it all began.

Saturday night, circa 1960-something.

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Frank McCourt

He taught his children well

Frank McCourt died earlier this week. This one is strangely personal for me. Although I attended Stuyvesant High School, I missed Mr.

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red rose

"A rose by any other name . . . " What's yours?

Every warranty form, every survey, every ‘new patient’ form requests the same information. What is your occupation?

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The moon

A walk on the moon remembered

On July 20, 1969, at about 7 in the morning Western European time, I was comfortably snoozing away in a rented bedroom in Florence, Italy, when there came a thunderous pounding at the door. “Get up!

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walking on the moon

If we can land a man on the moon …

We are celebrating the anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 --- the NASA mission which landed a man on the moon on July 20, 1969.

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model figure

Do you still need to be "Twiggy?"

In the sixties, British fashion model, Twiggy became an international sensation. With her super thin frame and huge eyes, she became the icon of our generation.

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