Joan’s Boomer Blog

Boomer Humor - Drag Racing

An elderly man on a Moped, looking about 100 years old, pulls up next to a doctor at a street light.

The old man looks over at the doctor’s sleek shiny car and asks,
‘What kind of car ya got there, sonny?’

The doctor replies, ‘ A Ferrari GTO. It cost half a million dollars!’

‘That’s a lot of money,’ says the old man. ‘Why does it cost so much?’

‘Because this car can do up to 320 miles an hour!’ states the doctor proudly.

The Moped driver asks, ‘Mind if I take a look inside?’

‘No problem,’ replies the doctor.

So the old man pokes his head in the window and looks around.

Then, sitting back on his Moped, the old man says, ‘ That’s a pretty nice car, all right… but I’ll stick with my Moped!’

Just then the light changes, so the doctor decides to show the old man just what his car can do. He floors it, and within 30 seconds the speedometer reads 160 mph.

Suddenly, he notices a dot in his rear view mirror. It seems to be getting closer!

He slows down to see what it could be and suddenly WHOOOOSSSHHH !

Something whips by him going much faster !

‘What on earth could be going faster than my Ferrari?’ the doctor asks himself.

He presses harder on the accelerator and takes the Ferrari up to 250 mph.

Then, up ahead of him, he sees that it’s the old man on the Moped!

Amazed that the Moped could pass his Ferrari, he gives it more gas and passes the Moped at 275 mph and he’s feeling pretty good until he looks in his mirror and sees the old man gaining on him AGAIN!

Astounded by the speed of this old guy, he floors the gas pedal and takes the Ferrari all the way up to 320 mph.

Not ten seconds later, he sees the Moped bearing down on him again! The Ferrari is flat out, and there’s nothing he can do!

Suddenly, the Moped plows into the back of his Ferrari, demolishing the rear end.

The doctor stops and jumps out and unbelievably the old man is still alive.

He runs up to the banged-up old guy and says, ‘I’m a doctor…. Is there anything I can do for you?’

The old man whispers, ‘Yes….please unhook my suspenders from your side view mirror.’

Add These AntiAging Foods to Your Daily Diet

As much as 90% of how well we age is related to lifestyle choices that we make every day. An AntiAging Diet can keep our minds and bodies functioning at peak capacity well into our senior years. Antiaging foods keep our muscles, joints and bones in good repair so we suffer less from arthritis and lack of balance. Antiaging foods keep our memory sharp and help ward off diseases like cancer and heart disease, which can be debilitating, if they don’t kill us, that is.

Here are some antiaging foods that you can add to your daily diet. You’ll notice the difference in the way you feel very quickly.

1.  Water - Sounds strange doesn’t it? That water is an important antiaging diet ingredient? Water keeps toxins and cancer causing waste materials flushed from your body. Joints which are well hydrated function better too. Drink 6-8 glasses of water daily.

2.  Nuts - Nuts contain heart healthy omega3 fatty acids, protein and fiber. It doesn’t take many nuts either. Sprinkle walnuts or sliced almonds on your salad or cereal daily. Contrary to popular opinion, even thought nuts have fat, it is a source of good fats that actually help our heart and cholesterol levels.

3.  Ginger - Ginger is a great anti-inflammatory food and inflammation is believed to be the cause of many illnesses and diseases people get as they age, such as arthritis and heart disease. Ginger is good for the digestion and is a good cure for indigestion. It works better than taking antacids and other medications.

4.  Garlic - Garlic helps lower cholesterol and is also an anti-viral, anti-bacterial food. Eat fresh, crushed garlic when possible. If you’re coming down with a cold, crush some garlic, let it set a few minutes and then mix it with butter and put on toast. Don’t heat the garlic. This is my go-to remedy for colds and sore throats and it works every time.

5.  Cruciferous Vegetables are among the best anti-aging foods around. Brocolli, turnips, cauliflower, and cabbage also are anti-cancer foods. Slice up a few turnips into soup or sprinkle chopped cabbage into your salad or steamed veggies.

6.  Berries - Blueberries top the list of nutrient rich, antioxidant packed foods but all berries contain antioxidants. Keep bags of them in the freezer to use in cereal, smoothies or mix with yogurt as a dessert.

7.  Chia Seeds These seeds are so tiny that 1/4 teaspoon is considered a serving. Make Chia Gel for smoothies or sprinkle chia seeds into cereal, yogurt, stir fry or just about any food.

8.  Green Tea - contains lots of anti-cancer and anti-aging ingredients. Drink 4-5 cups per day. If you aren’t fond of green tea, try some flavors mixed with fruit. Black tea is a good substitute. It doesn’t have all the antiaging properties of green tea but it does contain lots of antioxidants. Add a slice of lemon as this boosts the power of green tea by about 20%.

If you’re on an anti-aging diet, skip the sugar and processed foods. Sugar causes many of the illnesses and diseases that go along with aging and processed foods contain chemicals which can cause cancer, obesity and other health issues.

Read more about anti-aging foods you can easily add to your daily diet.

Read More about Being Healthier with Superfoods

For Weddings and Big Events Try Sailing in San Diego

Sailing in San Diego offers the best of everything for your next big event - perfect weather, beautiful surroundings and lots of fun. Go on a whale watching watching cruise to see these gentle creatures in their natural habitat or take in dinner on a stunning sunset cruise, all while surrounded with the beauty of Mission Bay and the unique city of San Diego.

Each couple’s wedding should be as unique as the couple themselves. Imagine the magnificent backdrop for your once-in-a-lifetime wedding photos with a San Diego Cruise Wedding. You and your guests can glide through the temperate waters, enjoying a bountiful feast, and making memories to last a lifetime.

Getting married is one of the biggest events of your life and San Diego Weddings, especially while cruising in a beautiful sailboat is just the unique experience you are looking for.

If you’re an event planner for your business, attendees will love the idea of a Company Cruise San Diego. Corporate cruises in San Diego offer catered dinners from the city’s finest restaurants, with many meal and beverage options. Impress your guests and business associates with upfront views of San Diego’s beautiful skyline, marine life like dolphins, sea lions and whales, and impressive military aircraft carriers and submarines.

In beautiful, temperate San Diego, you never have to worry about the weather for your big event. Leave all your worries at home as you go sailing in San Diego.

Take Me Back to the Fabulous Fifties

Fabulous Fifties

I grew up in the 1950’s and vividly remember the “fabulous fifties” - drive-in movies, blackjack gum and riding my bike downtown to get a cherry coke for a nickle. A friend sent me this video montage, Take Me Back to the Fifties, and it really did take me back to my childhood.

When we used to go to the dime store, where things really cost a dime, and agonize over which penny candy to get with our allowance, which was, I think a dime. Back when Ricky Nelson was my first crush and I couldn’t wait for Ozzie and Harriet to come on each week.

Visit Old Forty-Fives.com and find montages of growing up in the 1960’s and 70’s, plus Growing up in the Fifties, What we Drove in the 50’s and 60’s, Old Westerns, Do you Remember These, When Life Was Black and White and others that are well worth a trip down memory lane.

Life was simpler in the fabulous fifties - at least for kids. We lived on a farm in Oregon and we could disappear in the morning, going down to the creek near our house, up on the mountain behind our house or take a bike ride downtown. We showed up for lunch, then took off again and my mom never once thought someone would kidnap us. Party lines and one telephone meant we couldn’t talk long to our friends - we’d ride our bikes to visit them instead.

Nobody had much money, our mom made our clothes and canned our food and everybody we knew lived pretty much like us. Nobody’s mom worked and none of my friends parents were divorced. Nobody seemed to worry what kind of education we got and all our free time was “unscheduled.” I know my parents worried a lot about “making ends meet” but living on a farm, we always had good healthy food to eat and healthy air to breathe.

I’d be the first to admit I love my computer with the Internet, connecting with old friends via Facebook, having my cellphone (now with text messaging because all our kids use it!), being able to DVR my favorite TV shows. Still, when I look at my young grandchildren, I feel sorry that they will never know the carefree freedom we had, learning to use their imaginations because that’s the only toys have, being on the run outdoors all day without anyone worrying about them.

I watch the grandchildren glued to videos, unable to go out their front door without supervision, going from activity to activity with no time to just lay out in the grass and watch the cloud shapes take form. I guess that’s why, when either of my 3 year old granddaughters comes to spend time with me, we always sit in the big swing out back and look at the trees and the birds and talk about things.

Just as my own parents were my link to the past which included World War II, the depression and life in the 30’s and 40’s, I guess I’ll be that link for my grandchildren to a simpler time to grow up-life in the Fifties.

Joan’s Boomer Blog - Internet Radio Oldies

Oldies radio shows are disappearing from the airwaves but you can still find Internet radio oldies stations and listen free. Here two new online oldies radio stations I’ve recently discovered.

Alan’s Golden Oldies.

Alan Price is an experienced radio DJ and started his oldies website in 2005. His site streams oldies 24 hours a day and Alan also broadcasts live from 1 to 5 pm weekdays, bringing the audience classic tunes from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.

One thing I like about Alan’s choice of oldies is that there are many you don’t hear anywhere else these days.

Other oldies tidbits you can hear on Alan’s Golden Oldies include:

• Audio from old movie trailers at 330pm Monday through Friday
• Old radio shows like The Adventures of Superman, Amos and Andy or Gunsmoke.
• Promos from stars he’s interviewed over the years like Andy Williams
• Enjoy oldies on your cellphone or PDA

You can also visit Alan’s website to make a special oldies request and view his guest book. Alan’s guestbook includes photos of celebrities from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s with their autographs written to him. See Fabion, Dick Clark and Dick and Dee to name just a few.

I like to tune in to Alan’s Golden Oldies while I’m working. It makes terrific background music for writing a boomer blog!

Another new-to-me Internet radio oldies show is Beyond 50’s Radio, where host Daniel Davis offers interviews on topics of interest to baby boomers, plus a free Beyond 50’s newsletter which keeps you posted on upcoming programs of interest.

If you go to the website you can also listen to past episodes through the archives. Programs include diabetes and accelerated aging, Warren Buffet’s Successful Management Techniques, Map and Plan your Volunteer Vacation and other topics of interest to baby boomers.

More Links to Internet Radio Oldies

Joan’s Boomer Blog - More Coupon Sites for Deals and Freebies

I love getting freebies and using money saving coupons. Coupon sites are growing in popularity and I’ve found some new ones through reading ShopSmart magazine. Put out by Consumer Reports, ShopSmart contains no advertising so there is no conflict of interest in the products and tips they offer to help save you money.

In a recent article, ShopSmart offered these freebie and coupon savings sites. Although these aren’t strictly for seniors, seniors can certainly benefit from these money saving websites.

Coupon Savings.com

Coupons.com

Grocery Smarts.com

Beauty Product Freebies and Coupons:

These money saving coupon sites let you know when department stores are having product giveaway days - such as free gift with purchase. Search by brand name or retailer. You can also subscribe to these great websites so you can get updated on new deals and freebies.

GWP Addict.com - Keeps you up to date on best shopping days for freebies with products like Clinique. Also a coupon page for instore or online coupons, grouped by when they expire so you aren’t trying coupons that are out of date already.

My Gift with Purchase.com

To get coupons for beauty products, lotions and body care products, also sign up with company websites. Ulta.com has a free membership card where you can accumulate points toward gifts, plus they email you discount coupons for online or in store shopping. Other companies like Aveda and Oil of Olay also offer discount coupons for signing up at their website.

Forums where coupons savings shoppers swap tips:

A Full Cup.com

Moms View.com

Slick Deals.com

Some recommendations when using freebie and coupon sites:

Print only from reputable coupon sites. Make sure coupons contain bar codes and expiration dates.

It might be helpful to set up a separate email address just for all your coupons site sign-ups. This will help you avoid spam and keep all our coupons and newsletters in one place. I’ve had to create new email addresses over the years when old ones got too spam filled. I use these older ones for my coupon site sign-ups.

Crystal Singing Bowl

Seeking Inner Peace? Try a Crystal Singing Bowl

The beautiful Crystal Singing Bowl is used for many spiritual traditions, meditation, relaxation, well being and religious practices. Singing bowls are a type of bell, and the sides and rim vibrate to produce a haunting, lovely sound.

How do you use a crystal singing bowl?

A singing bowl produces its melodious sound by rubbing a wooden, plastic, or leather wrapped mallet around the rim of the bowl.

Many baby boomers are seeking fulfillment, inner peace and happiness in their senior years. The crystal singing bowl can be a powerful aid in meditation and relaxation, as well as being a beautiful addition to your home.

Television 1980′2 - Enjoy Remington Steele Onine

I don’t consider television of the 1980’s to be true nostalgic TV since I was born in the 1950’s, but Remington Steele still enjoys a large following 30 years after it’s original broadcast from 1982-1987.

Remington Steele stared Pierce Brosnan as a rogish con man and Stephanie Zimbalist as a private detective. In the 1980’s I was in the Navy, stationed in Rota, Spain, and the only television we got to watch was Armed Forces TV. Remington Steele was one of the programs offered and I loved it back then. In fact, my daughter Laura, who was born in Spain, was named for the Stephanie Zimbalist character, Laura Holt.

I always thought Stephanie Zimbalist was cute and perky and I enjoyed the shows she was in at the time. I’m not sure now why I named my daughter Laura and not Stephanie but her name still brings up memories of sitting in our duty room at the Naval Hospital watching those Remington Steele episodes.

Recently, I started looking for places to see those nostalgic episodes again. They are still funny and offbeat, even today. I can even almost forgive Pierce Brosnan for his singing in Momma Mia when I see the dashing Remington Steele again.

If you’d like to watch Remington Steele videos online you can catch Seasons 1-5 at:

Hulu.com - Many people today are opting not to have cable or satelite TV and watching television, nostalgic and new at Hulu for free. Hulu offers 60 episodes of Remington Steele. Sign up is free.

Netflix offers Seasons 1-5 of Remington Steele which you can watch instantly on your computer. Netflix is a monthly subscription website but the lowest package starts at

t starred Stephanie Zimbalist as private detective Laura Holt and Pierce Brosnan as a roguish former white-collar thief and con man who assumed the fictitious Remington Steele identity. The show took an offbeat approach to the standard TV detective genre, with ironic plotting and elements of romantic comedy.

Keep up with the latest in nostalgic TV by getting a free email subscription to Retrovision TV

Find Financial Freedom

Are you experiencing a financial downturn? Have you lost your job or seen your retirement account shrinking? “They” say the economy is getting better - has it gotten better for you too?

Here is a great blog posting by the Chopra Center about how to find financial freedom by by Julie Murphy Casserly, a Certified Financial Planner and founder of JMC Wealth Management, Inc. in Chicago. Julie offers a terrific exercise to help you reach your financial goals, no matter what your current financial situation.

Read it here.

What Did Ronald Reagan Have to Say About Socialized Medicine? Here it in his own words.

I was young when Reagan was President and, to tell the truth, I didn’t pay much attention to what he had to say back then. In the present, however, I’ve started paying more attention to what Ronald Reagan had to say about socialism and socialized medicine.

Here’s a real commercial from the 1950’s about the dangers of socialized medicine by Ronald Reagan. His message has a lot of relevance for us today.

Listen to Ronald Reagan’s own words about socialism and socialized medicine.