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A new perspective for the new year By Shirley Scott - Boomer Blog I amazed myself twice last Thursday evening. The first surprise came when I found myself still awake as the last moment of a bruised and battered 2020 became the first moment of a much-anticipated 2021. The more surprising surprise, however, were the tears I wiped from my eyes. Whether they were shed in sorrow or celebration or both, I probably was not alone in just wanting to erase the sadness and step immediately into better times. The time we have been desperately counting now for months is such a man-made concept. Nature, t...

Questions abound! Confusion reigns! By Shirley Scott - Boomer Blog Clearly, I have been living an illusionary life for almost a year now. Last Christmas I downsized to a laptop and a wireless printer. My nephews and niece swooped in to mantle and dismantle my equipment, politely attempting to keep their aged aunt marginally connected with the cyberworld. With my Kindle by my side and my laptop frequently on the charger cord, I entered 2020 feeling sleek and updated. I was on the brink of declaring the year that ends tomorrow a technological success with fifty-some Boomer Blog columns, corres...

That was the best gift ever By Shirley Scott - Boomer Blog The date circled on the calendar for so long is now just a couple of days away – the day that commands attention: for many of us the final celebration of any calendar year is the pinnacle in terms of our families, our traditions, our beliefs. Usually central to our festivities is the custom of gifts. Hoping for, planning for, searching for, perhaps creating, presenting to wide eyes, broad smiles, boisterous whoops, quiet tears – the exchange of gifts plays out each year with new deposits to our bank of memories. With so many recol...

Letting our fingers shop until we drop! By Shirley Scott - Boomer Blog St. Nick will arrive next week and somehow gain access to our homes – video doorbells and security keypads notwithstanding. With Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and Giving Tuesday long past, we are down to last-minute, socially-distanced shopping trips even as delivery trucks fan out across our highways and byways. Lest my readers think I am describing the current holiday shopping season as impacted – maybe even distorted – by restrictions unique to 2020, I ask: Are things really so different th...