And I agree that your experiences were significantly different. I’m not sure what the demographers actually think we have in common.

(And some of us are tired of baby boomers including us in the demographic at all. Our experiences as a group were significantly different.)

1. The Baby Boom was actually from 1946 through 1964, not 1965. There is even some controversy about the 1964 end date but the classic definition of the Baby Boom generation is from 1946 through 1964.

2. You are correct that there are two distinct subsets of Boomers, the “early boomers” and the “late boomers”(or “Cohort 1″ and “Cohort 2″), but “Shadow Boomer” is actually used to refer to the late boomers, a.k.a., Cohort 2, not to the age group you describe.

True Shadow Boomer/Baby Boomer Cohort 2 Member, out!

Hope you have a great time meeting and networking with one another!! I so wish I could be there to hang out with you — this wonderful growing community of midlife women who blog.

For all of us who aren’t there, maybe you BlohHer ’08 attendees can post comments back here so we can get the vibe from afar about your impressions and experience at the conference.

Have fun and travel safe.

Karen
http://midlifesatrip.com

I’m tired of the labels too. As Jane points out, Baby Boomer denotes a generation of people born at a certain time. But whenever I hear “Boomer”, it makes me think of some big guy who plays football That’s why you’ll see me using the term “midlife” because to me it’s more about a state of mind than just an age. You can be 40 and consider yourself in midlife or you can be 80. We don’t need the boundaries anymore of having to fit into a box called whatever. Unless, as Susan points out, we want to be called “hip”. I’ll take that anyday!

Karen

Thanks for your suggestions. I’d like to check out a photography class myself. And I’m going to check out Meetup.com. You know, you raise an interesting point here–maybe another article–for those of us who are single, how do you meet an “occasional guy” to go out with? Anyone have some wisdom to share on that topic?

Karen

You’ve found, like many of us, that this time of life is less about just “doing” and more about “being”. Activities have to have meaning now — bring significance to our lives. So I understand that you have to go where you can be the person you want to show up in the world as. For me, the consumate city dweller, that meant moving from my cool, funky loft where I just came and went to a little house in an small very politically active suburb where I connect with people who think like me.

What kind of move did you make and how’s the transition been for you?

Karen