Ok. That’s it! I’ve had it! Are you sick and tired of the blogging, twittering, emailing, texting, iPads, iPods, iPhones, gigabytes, megabytes and triglabytes? Are you fed up with the “twenty and thirty something’s” looking at you like you’re an imbecile? Is your conversation with your spouse overwhelmed with the frustration that you aren’t a nerd because you have no idea how to fix their electronic device?
Then tell those young twerps this, that in fifty years, this is what…..
When I was a little boy I vividly remember the men in my family treating the women in my family like gold. They would open up the doors, they would buy them flowers, they would shower them with gifts on holidays and they would defend them to the death. It was chivalry at its best. When the invention of television came along everything I saw emphasized the same treatment of women. Men were rough and tough. Women were soft and…..
So, what has happened to the country we love? In Florida they are everywhere, the castaways, the throwaways, the men who are over fifty, who have been tossed aside because they ended up being numbers, who were easy to discard. They walk like zombies on the beach, knobby kneed, paunchy men by the thousands, from places where they used to be somebody, places like Chicago, Detroit, Boston and Buffalo.
They ended up being on the wrong side of the balance…..
The ad guy who created “See The USA In Your Chevrolet” must have made millions. This was one of those remarkable moments when all of the stars were in alignment, a perfect storm of successful World War Two parents, teenage children, disposable income and summer vacation. Little did all those millions of families know, this would be a trip into madness, where we would be stuck in a tin can with no air conditioning,…..
The baby boomer sexual revolution of the 60′s turned the institution of marriage on its head. There was the thought, that perhaps, we were just like the apes after all, that everything that had to do with marriage was created by man, a silly notion that we were above other species in the animal kingdom. If we were just like apes then why not mount another ape as they strutted by? Just think, no need for phone calls or flowers…..
If there was any one moment that was the birth of the baby boomer generation it was the appearance of The Beatles on the “Ed Sullivan Show”.
Time came to a complete stop that Sunday night as my generation was completely mesmerized. Every girl in America fell in love with either Paul, John, Ringo or George, so every boy in America had to become a Beatle. It was much more…..
We have heard over and over again that our parents generation was the greatest generation. Perhaps when we consider that they faced a world at war this is true, but why is it that all the generations before and after them should be considered not as great? As I write in my book, no one should be ashamed of where they were born. Nor should they be ashamed of when they were born.
I believe every generation is confronted with…..