Baby Boomers Recognition Day – June 21, 2015

Baby Boomers Recognition Day is June 21, 2015, a time to celebrate being a Boomer and to enjoy life.

As Boomers, we experienced the colorful 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and some of us made very significant contributions to the way of life we all enjoy today. Think of Boomers such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who made the current digital age possible. How about Madonna, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder and many others who rocked our world with great music? Then there were: Michael Jordan and Tracy Austin in sports. Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Whoopi Goldberg and other unique talk show hosts. Deepak Chopra and the mind-body-spirit experience. Steven Spielberg and his blockbuster movies. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock and many other popular actors.

Why haven't we recognized Boomers' contributions more? The new book "Boomers Rock Again" explains that "our parents' generation poked fun at us by calling us hippies. They acted as though all of us were drugged-out long-hairs who lived in communes and rode motorcycles on the way to a nowhere life.... Most of us ran so far from that hippie stereotype that we stopped identifying ourselves as Boomers. But now we're waking up again...."

Maybe it's time to recognize that we really are Boomers, and that lots of other great people are Boomers too. That should be enough of a reason to do some celebrating on Baby Boomers Recognition Day.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2014

Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and several other worthy recipients were recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and it was a fitting rock party. Springsteen had already been inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999, but came back to cheer on the members of his E Street Band who were now getting their honors.

The other honorees at the 2014 edition of this rock and roll institution were Linda Ronstadt, Nirvana, KISS, Hall & Oates, Peter Gabriel, and Yusuf Islam -- the man we once knew as Cat Stevens.

See Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for more about these festivities.

Boomers Rock

What is it about Rock and Roll music that seems to have a tremendous hold on us? The sounds of the late 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s can put us right back there -- at the old hometown hang-outs with friends, or in those heart-pounding moments with members of the opposite sex, wondering "will they or won’t they?" It was a time to be alive and do new things, with the whole world open to us.

As it turns out, our life can still be much like that today. And our music seems to be a key that’s unlocking the door for us to get there. That is the secret of Boomers Rock Again, the good-music and feeling-younger movement spreading in viral fashion among Baby Boomers.

The whole story is told here at Boomers Rock Again, so check it out.