the Laughing Boomer

Hi:

 Retirement means stopping what you may have been doing for dozens of years and doing something new.  Some people ease into it by working four days, then three, and then stopping work altogether.  Others have such a busy life outside of work that they can hardly fit their work into their life and welcome the extra time.  Yet many people are reluctant to stop work because it means moving out of their comfort zone.  They are used to their activities and don't know or want to do anything else.

Hi:

With the explosion of globalization and technology, the varied paths of retirement lead to many roads. According to a Merrill Lynch survey, only ten percent of retirees want to sit around in a slow paced lifestyle.  Sure, many may want to do that for a couple of months, but then it's off to the races. 

Hi:

Well, we have a youth "culture", that started decades ago with the baby boomers.  Youth was idolized, focused as the ideal state of freedom and exploration.  Youth tossed old norms out the window  into the wind.

Pete McMartin from the Vancouver Sun, October 10, 2005 talks about a new genre in literature "for those who feel they haven't lived enough, done enough, seen enough". He seems to feel that it's about "the feel of death's breath", and "our appetite to consume". He's talking about baby boomers, of course.