Baby Boomer Life

Hello friends and readers of Baby Boomer Life. Thank you for coming to my site.
Baby Boomer Life has moved to a new location and many of my articles are being moved there as well. You will find most of my articles on audio for your listening pleasure (and videos to come). While you are here there is almost a years worth of work right here in the archives. Please continue to enjoy, comment, and tell it like it is from your perspective. I love free speech!

My new home is http://www.baby-boomer-life.com/wordpress/.

Baby-Boomer-Life is a more comprehensive site but very focussed on healthy boomer’s lifestyles. This will encompass healthy body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
You can also find me at http://www.healthywealthyboomer.com with my husband and boomer partner, Michael Barrett.

As our understanding of internet marketing grows and our ability to use this form of communication develops with the help of our internet gurus, we are better able to serve you on the world wide web.

Thanks to Ed Dale and Dan Raine, my very first internet marketing teachers, and the guys at Stompernet-Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins; also, the wonderful Dr. Andy Williams, and my gal pal, Mari Smith on Facebook Strategic Marketing, and last but most definitely not least- Jack Humphrey and now Sam Clark; I am learning wondrous things for a Boomer Gal! LOL

These are some of the teachers who taught me the most and without whom I would still be checking my email on AOL and calling myself a techie! How hysterical is that?? ROTFLMAO )

Our 16 session class with Sam Clark and Jack Humphrey has been kicking butt and then again,the Thirty Day Challenge Part 4Ever is still challenging me to grow new dendrites everyday! More brain food please!

I look forward to seeing you at my new location and I Thank You so very much for your continued support as I strive to share all my experiences on the topics mentioned with each of you.

As Michael and I prepare to release our ebook-Healthy$$Wealthy$$Boomer,
I will be very focussed on that and therefore will mostly be posting on the new location. Of course, we fit this in with our family life and a road warrior work and lifestyle, so don’t think I am slacking off now! By the way, we are also very grateful to Michael Greene for all his 20/20 Challenge inspiration too, or we might not even have an ebook! I will keep you posted on that.

Please come to see me, sit a spell and listen to a few of my audios-or even just one.
I look forward to seeing you and I love the company.
Water, Tea, or Coffee anyone?

Alexandra Barrett
P.S. Send me some flowers or Starbucks on Facebook and let me know you were here!

Where did Fred Thompson’s voters go and yes, I am, I am mad as hell!

I Am Mad As Hell And I Am Not Going To Take This Anymore! Where did all the wondrous possibilities for Republican presidential candidates drop off to? What is going on with my party?

I feel seriously cheated and angry and disappointed-where is Mike Huckabee, where is Rudy Guiliani, where is Fred Thompson? This happened all too quickly and quietly for my taste.

I am mad. I am really mad. I am an angry Republican who feels like we just got “screwed”-pardon my English!

Here is how I feel right now; there is no difference that I can see between the Democrats and the Republicans if McCain is our best representation of the Republican party for president. There is nothing wrong with McCain, he is a good man no doubt since I don’t know him personally, BUT his ACTIONS show me that he isn’t a REPUBLICAN except in party registration and backing.

I am talking values and party line. Where do he and Obama differ-REALLY? They are both Liberals.

I think differences are good. I think political parties should represent different viewpoints and perspectives NOT just a different set of pockets!

President Reagan became my model.
Honestly, I am no political pundit but I am a voter and have never missed an election since 1968. It has taken a lifetime for me to develop a valid, educated opinion about my party and what it stands for in the American way of life. When I was a young adult, experientially still a child, I voted like a child. Now I am an adult who takes my voter rights and responsibilities seriously. I learned from President Reagan what a really good president is.

I don’t vote for candidates by their label; I vote for what they stand for and what I was taught that the Republican Party stands for. Even Mike Huckabee and Rudy Guiliani are a bit less conservative than I prefer but their values are values that I believe in. I think their softness on Republican ideals cost them the nomination and we have been spoon-fed McCain because the opposing party and media intends that a lot of conservative Republicans will simply get ticked off and not vote for anyone rather than someone they don’t really support. Opps-the Democrats then win by default and it looks like a landslide.
COME ON PEOPLE!

Get Serious Now
So to Republican Boomer’s I say this. It is time to gather strength and get solidly behind Mitt Romney because I see a serious case of divide and conquer going on here and we (Republicans) have every reason to be on high alert.

If your brain isn’t saying “warning, warning, warning!” you better reduce your medication and WAKE UP or this is going to be over before you know it. The McCain-Feingold Bill is just the beginning of the story of disaster for Conservative Republicans and life as we know it.

Looking back I would say that there has been a concerted effort to keep Republicans so focussed on the Obama-Hilary race that there has been nothing but confusion in the Republican Party. Are you with me??

Thoughts and focus create events and results. Energy goes where attention flows. Can you see it? Are you getting this?

It is time for all Republicans who are serious voters and not just opinion mongers to gather together and get united behind one candidate.

For my vote that candidate is now Mitt Romney for President. Sorry Mr. Huckabee. Better luck next time.

The party and values of President Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President, is good enough for me.
Thanks from Baby Boomer Life.

Please note; I don’t normally write about my personal political opinions so please humor me if you will boomer’s. If you are so inclined, please comment and I will either print the comment or not depending on how you say what you say.

Boomer’s and Bikers and hell on wheels Harley’s?
Maybe not anymore…..Boomer Biker Christians on Harley’s…yeah…that’s it.

The irony of Boomer’s and Biker’s and Christians is what I was really thinking about.
Recently while spending time with two of my favorite friends, Frank and Linda, who just happen to be bikers-his and hers Harley’s to die for!-we got to talking about their biker friends and his prison ministry and how most bikers today are proactive Christians who are more inclined to do rides for the Make a Wish Foundation or to raise money for the families of inmates or to buy bibles for people doing time and their families.

Right now their mission is that they are trying to find ways to get TBN-Trinity Broadcasting Network- into the prisons as an alternate cable station instead of the one cable station permitted now which tends to be a music station that is rap and videos. Apparently they are only permitted one cable station and the inmates vote and choose. Naturally they choose music if they only get one. However, if there were two and the other was TBN they would watch it a great deal of the time because most of the inmates are starving for spiritual life and desperately want to learn the teachings of the Bible. They want to be saved. They want to know Christ as their Lord and Savior.

In some cases they know what they want and need and in some cases they don’t yet know what it is, they just know that it is something and that the hole inside is very large and very empty. They need a reason to care about right and wrong and to think they matter. It is that simple. It is also fixable. Kind of scary though in a country where it is politically incorrect to mix government and God anymore. The need here is too great to ignore and from what my biker friends tell me, they are the ones reaching out to find ways to fill the need. Hallelujah for them. I mean that too. Hallelujah!!

While writing this post I came across a link at TBN Second Chance that made me realize just how important an issue this has become and that of course being the serious ministry that it is TBN has already put a huge effort into the Second Chance programming and what that might mean to the future of the people in the prison system. Faith based programming would reach literally thousands of inmates living in what amounts to the pits of despair and defeat with what seems like a totally hopeless and endless road ahead.

How can this be anything but the most important of important issues when so many lives are affected? Think about the hundreds of thousands of inmates, spouses, children, other family members, corrections officers (and their families too), wardens and other staff that are affected by the plight of the correctional institutions as they currently exist. The repercussions of not having a Second Chance are as dire as can be for a huge number of people and family’s. Only those whose family members are affected everyday can possibly understand that this is a monumentally crucial need.

My biker friends are looking for help and support. Their biker friends are doing all they can to support them in their work. I believe you can make a difference. You may be the one to come up with an idea that finally breaks through on how to effect serious change in the system. It all starts with supporting the TBN effort.

Baby Boomer Life would also like to help by spreading the word and raising consciousness on this subject. What else can we do? Let us know with a comment or two and tell us what you are doing. It matters.

Thank you and good luck. This project is in the hands of the Lord already but many hands make light work so lets join together and heal this problem. Can I get an AMEN?

Hello Baby Boomer Life readers and welcome to 2008! According to my pastor it is going to be a grrrrreat year and I tell you, Tony the Tiger could not have said it with more emphasis. I sure hope he is right. Don’t you?

Something I read somewhere about odd years being less successful than even years, or was it that 2007 is a “nine” year (2+7=9) and nines are endings and completions so 2008 is supposed to be a “one” year and that is new beginnings and the excitement of starting fresh in a bigger and better way than on just any old new year. All of this is called numerology and the science of numbers and their values as indicators of a given years’ possible outcomes is pretty fascinating to say the least-at least to me. And there many other things I saw and read throughout 2007 that I won’t go into but what matters most is that it is indeed 2008. We are launched. On that note…..

I saw a new blog today entitled Healthy Wealthy Boomer and I really thought it looked interesting because it linked me to… (full story Great in 2008)