Byline: Annette Kurman

O P I N I O N BOOMER LIFE By Annette Kurman Have you taken your daughter or granddaughter clothes

For us, one of the factors is that we often spend more time leaving a venue than we spend being entertained. Too much hassle at our age.  So we have added tribute bands to our concert-going ventures.

Do you still have a box full of mixed tapes you made back in the ’80s?

Is your mind overwhelmed with so many numbers, passwords, and other minutiae that if someone asks for your license plate number, you come up blank? If you give me a minute or two, I can visualize the last four numbers.

If you’re like me, you had the album Tapestry vertically lined up on a shelf, perhaps arranged alphabetically if you were a bit OCD and maybe even on a shelf created with several cement blocks. Maybe your parents even had a copy. Some considered it a ground-breaking generational crossover album.

I remember some years ago when the media celebrated New Jersey’s Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, who was considered to be the nation’s first baby boomer, when she was expected to formally apply for Social Security benefits in anticipation of her 62nd birthday on January 1, 2008.

You may recall that several months ago I expressed my desire to create a calendar featuring my favorite album covers. I covered January, February, and March.  Now it’s time to showcase April, May, and June!

Do you remember dropping a quarter into the machine and you and your friends cramming into one of these photobooths? Do you still have those photo strips hanging around in a box in the basement? Or perhaps you were at a holiday party recently where they had a “photo booth” where you donned props, and the results were sent right to your Facebook or email?