tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245Wed, 31 May 2023 09:43:45 +0000baby boomersalzheimer'smusicfamilybloggingcareer changesculturesHannah's Journeyenvironmentcomedyretirementself helptechnologypoliticsHolidaysaging parentsbusinesscommentarynewssmall businessMac Stuffhealthcarejobsneat stuffcare giverssocial networkingPC Stuffcoffeeeducationfreelance writinggo greenhistoric eventsmusic therapyvacationThis is my blog of information and stories for and about the Baby Boomer Generation.http://www.davidwlindberg.com/noreply@blogger.com (David)Blogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-729229338564806304Thu, 24 Mar 2016 04:14:00 +00002016-04-07T16:15:04.952-04:00baby boomersbloggingbusinesscommentarycultures I thought I'd try to revive this blog. I originally created Baby Boomer Davy's Locker as a learning experiment after my corporate job of 22 years ended in 2008. As a creative person who found creativity basically shut down for most of those 22 years, when that job ended, I continued my persuit of what the Internet was doing, especially in the beginnings of social media and blogging. I began http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2016/03/revival-of-my-baby-boomer-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-8851955656210392941Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:44:00 +00002012-11-21T14:44:23.764-05:00 I have always loved listening to stories from older family members. Even when I was as young as I can remember I wouldn't go outside and play with my cousins during the Sunday visit to Grama's house. I would stay at the dinning room table during the after dinner coffee and desert time because I loved hearing their stories about times gone by. They were funny, everyone laughing to tears, http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2012/11/over-river-and-through-our-memories.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-783855872917966854Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:36:00 +00002012-11-14T12:22:48.867-05:00aging parentsbaby boomersbloggingbusinesscare givershealthcaremusicpoliticsretirementsmall business It has been May since I posted to this blog. &nbsp;I have been overwhelmed with running my business, David's Music House, Inc. for the last two years and in these economic times, it has been a spectrum of highs and lows. This is the first business I have ever attempted and I knew it would have to be something that was connected to my passion and love of music, to get me through any difficultieshttp://www.davidwlindberg.com/2012/11/oksoim-backkkkagain.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-7620185134717906825Thu, 10 May 2012 10:52:00 +00002012-05-10T08:29:27.799-04:00aging parentsbaby boomersbloggingbusinessenvironmentfamilyhealthcarejobsretirementsmall business If any readers of this blog have seen my other articles about what I have been doing lately, you may realize why I haven’t been active for quite a while on this blog, especially if any of you own or have ever owned your own business. The saying, “if it were easy, everyone would do it” is as true as true can be! The purpose of this article will be to speak to why I haven’t been writing for a http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2012/05/it-has-been-quite-while-if-any-readers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0Town Center Blvd, Canonsburg, PA 15317, USA40.2767073 -80.165185440.0828833 -80.481042399999993 40.4705313 -79.8493284tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-1973452827194979284Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:49:00 +00002011-06-27T08:03:20.643-04:00baby boomersbusinessself helpsmall businessWe all know and hear from all sources that starting your own business is hard. “If it was easy...everyone would do it!” We still never know how hot the stove is until we touch it. Yes, I have touched the stove and yes... it is very hot! I get it. I knew it was going to be and I also knew that due to choosing a business that was a core passion of mine, was THE thing that was going to give me the http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2011/06/in-this-moment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-3259098978993366031Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:15:00 +00002011-04-11T22:22:02.909-04:00businesscommentarymusicsmall business My business, David's Music House, Inc. is now entering it's sixth month of being open and I am realizing a new phase in owning my own business. The first three months were just pounding in nails, ordering things, paying bills, looking for ways to bring in customers, ya da ya da ya da.....It was a complete whirlwind of emotions of both highs and lows. There weer golden moments and others of http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2011/04/only-time-really-tells-true-story.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-2654775929664120889Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:33:00 +00002011-01-03T08:33:59.434-05:00commentaryLet's face it, the first day of a new year is really just another next day, but having a calendar that marks it as the first day of the new year makes it a grand event. As such a grand event, it gives us a great opportunity to make it a day to start something BIG. We all usually make promises to ourselves to do things that we always want to do, but we decide that this is a perfect day to finally http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2011/01/new-year-and-perfect-time-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-4198711088376335160Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:50:00 +00002010-10-25T06:53:48.420-04:00baby boomersOccurring before the Baby Boomer birth years, Orson Welles' grand hoax radio broadcast, "War of the Worlds" remains an all time Halloween classic.&nbsp; &nbsp; Orson Welles is an icon to boomers from many classic movies of our time, such as "Citizen Kane", which has been hailed as one of the best movies ever made. On October 30, 1938, Welles, the host and creator of a drama based radio http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2009/10/halloween-1938-orsen-wells-radio.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-7894982779302048446Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:30:00 +00002010-10-06T20:30:37.797-04:00music This is a terrific video clip from a GrowingBolder.com interview of Roger McGuinn where Bruce Springsteen pays tribute to a musician who inspired him. Bruce is 60 and Roger is 64 and these two Rock and Roll Hall of Famers play two great Byrd hits in this video, Tambourine Man and Turn, Turn, Turn....absolute classics! The video has a great interview from Roger as well as more information on http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/01/awesome-clip-for-boomersbruce-does-so.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-1734189348085863710Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:16:00 +00002010-09-08T12:37:54.205-04:00technology Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/with/3407406333/ Baby Boomers grew up in a world with three or maybe four TV channels that would sign off at the end of each day. Our high tech toys were Erector Sets, auto racing sets and toy electric trains. When we became parents, the marketing world targeted Boomers with new tech toys, knowing that we would buy in frenzy becausehttp://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/09/baby-boomers-are-joining-social.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-5263020929827600848Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:26:00 +00002010-08-02T14:58:19.213-04:00music Buffalo Springfield, left to right: Stephen Stills, Dewey Martin, Bruce Palmer, Richie Furay, Neil Young - Wikipedia One era of time in our country’s history clearly illustrates the power of music and that is of the 1960’s and 1970’s when a movement of socially conscious musicians, who were disturbed by war and the path they felt the government was taking the country, led a young generation tohttp://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/08/power-of-music-of-baby-boomer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-236819700315067855Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:26:00 +00002010-07-21T17:26:25.397-04:00self help<!--StartFragment--> &nbsp;I have been talking about starting my own small business for so long, that it was starting to feel like that’s actually what I do....”talk about it”. I finally received the funds I need and signed a three year lease on a space in a shopping plaza.... ME!!!!!.... owning a business in one of dem’ dere’ shopping plazas, that I always drive by and get my hair cut and by ahttp://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/07/just-last-week-i-only-dreamd-of-being.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-272508345640058102Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:35:00 +00002010-07-13T09:35:11.809-04:00baby boomersretirementThere is a beginning of another new way the Baby Boomer Generation is changing what “retirement” will mean in the future occurring. This is resulting out of two driving forces, of which one is how the past decades of greed of the rich and powerful have destroyed what used to be thought of as retirement. The other is once again, just a natural result of the sheer size of this generation of people http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/07/baby-boomer-reinvention-of-retirement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-9147657002356493724Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:54:00 +00002010-06-25T23:12:39.811-04:00commentaryI just happened upon this video narrated by Carl Sagan. I always loved to watch anything Carl Sagan every spoke about, as no one ever quite put science and humankind's relationship to the Universe in better words.&nbsp; This video puts life as we know it very much in perspective. We all tend to think of the world and life as they evolve, surround and effect us, in our small moments in time. In http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/06/perspective-understood-in-pale-blue-dot.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-3702503726478511774Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:42:00 +00002010-06-25T23:13:05.432-04:00family I lost my Dad on December 21, 1989 and I think about, and talk about him more as the years go by. It seems like the early hurt goes away, but the yearning to talk to or see someone you lose, increases as time goes by. My Dad was the life force and humor of our family. I don’t mean to say he was perfect...none of us can say that! He was flawed and I was quick to find those flaws when I was http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/06/message-for-fathers-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-4445797249010742842Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:28:00 +00002010-06-04T08:42:34.543-04:00music Video from http://www.paulmccartney.com "Up and Coming Tour" I may have to break my long time rule of not going to concerts at large venues ever again. It was announced yesterday, June 3, 2010, that the entertainer who would perform for the opening of the new Consol Energy Center, which is the new home of the Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey Team, will be non other than Sir Paul McCartney! The show http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/06/paul-mccartney-is-coming-to-pittsburgh.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-3433976341434283377Fri, 28 May 2010 19:48:00 +00002010-05-28T15:52:08.551-04:00baby boomers &nbsp;Art Linkletter was known to Baby Boomers mostly for his TV show, “Art Linkletter's House Party”, which was on CBS for 25 years. The most popular segment was “Kids say the darnedest things”, where Art interviewed children of all walks of life and was able to get the most unusual and funny answers from them. Art was an innovator in Television and started many of the ideas used throughout TV http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/05/another-baby-boomer-icon-dies-art.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-5299043711356308971Tue, 18 May 2010 13:47:00 +00002010-05-18T10:00:40.302-04:00retirement <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Palatino; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/05/retirement-why.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-9054978122942993803Thu, 06 May 2010 04:33:00 +00002010-05-07T13:22:01.713-04:00HolidaysI have finally reached that age when I no longer have either of the people who brought me into this world. That really makes me realize that I am indeed older than I thought. I often think of my dad, who passed away 21 years ago, as I find myself so much like him. My mom lived a relatively healthy life for those years since, even though she lost her life time partner. I don’t know how she did it!http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/05/my-first-mothers-day-without-mom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-2346763951053989642Mon, 03 May 2010 15:49:00 +00002010-05-03T11:54:02.761-04:00baby boomersI found this great Baby Boomer site called Baby Boomer Baloney that brings out the importance of humor in our lives. Their message is "Have you laughed your buns off today?" Laughter is one of the greatest medicines. I love those times when the least littlest thing puts you into a state of laughter to the point of crying. Although it seems at the moment that you may lose consciousness at any http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/05/one-of-greatest-actors-ever-jimmy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-6812049109509462997Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:02:00 +00002010-04-23T09:11:55.714-04:00music&nbsp;I don't always post events that are promotions of causes as an article on Baby Boomer Davy's Locker, but this is a great local music event in the South Side of Pittsburgh, PA this weekend to listen to some tunes and give to a great cause. If you're a reader of Baby Boomer Davy's Locker and in the Pittsburgh area, check out any of these worthwhile events. If you are not in the area and http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/04/rock-n-blues-for-cure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-2166752615757778568Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:35:00 +00002010-04-19T20:54:37.317-04:00politicsThe country has gone insane. The rich and powerful have had so much unbounded freedom for so many years that now that the pendulum is swinging the other way, and about the government giving more programs to the middle and lower income, all hell is breaking lose and all is in the name of “freedom”. &nbsp;The only freedoms that are in jeopardy are freedoms of the rich and powerful facing paying up http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/04/its-all-about-haves-and-have-nots.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-1474403992089523420Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:36:00 +00002010-04-14T05:40:17.633-04:00 If you ever saw the Steve Martin movie, “The Jerk”, one of the funniest scenes is The Jerk - "And That's All I Need" where he is going out the door to strike out on his own and starts saying he doesn’t need anything...except... and then he continues picking up everything he can not make himself leave behind. This is sometimes what I tend to do throughout life as I seem to have always been http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/04/special-purpose-all-i-need-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-1680753814569620115Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:23:00 +00002010-04-14T05:39:46.632-04:00commentaryWhen we are young, we can't wait to get older, to drive a car, strike out on our own, do it our way! When we arrive there, we usually find it much more difficult than we thought, but we're hell bent on having a good time, no matter what. Suddenly, we find that it's no longer "all about ourselves" as we marry and begin a family, but that's OK, because we're going to be the very best spouse, http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/04/every-day-is-one-more-and-one-less-step.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4507140479757520245.post-4462141535558707752Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:45:00 +00002010-03-27T15:56:59.550-04:00comedyRemember the show that was ABC's competition to SNL called "Fridays"? It premiered during SNL's 5th season and actually became more popular during the SNL 6th season. Fridays brought us the beginnings of the comic genius of like Michael Richards and Larry David.Here are some of the classic sketches from Fridays: "Fridays - Dick At The Beach Sketch" "Fridays Michael Richards as http://www.davidwlindberg.com/2010/03/other-saturday-night-live-fridays.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)0