Musings of a Baby Boomer

Join Kay Hoflander on an honest, humorous, and refreshing look back on the experiences of a unique generation and the challenges of aging digital. This humorous and whimsical approach brings to mind the writings of Erma Bombeck.

Musings of a Baby Boomer: Life Before X, Y, and Z is a collection of selected shorts from Hoflander's weekly newspaper column "Full Circle," featuring sometimes funny and sometimes philosophical stories with a continuous theme: the reluctant, but generally happy, aging of the Baby Boomer generation. In this collection, Hoflander tells stories about everything from yard flamingos and college move-in day to battling internet bots. She reflects on the simpler times of her childhood and addresses present-day changes to which, as a baby boomer, she adapts: memory loss, evolving technology, and politics.

Through it all, she uses humor and wit to remind readers not to take life too seriously-and to focus on the things that really matter.

Kay Hoflander holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked as a daily newspaper reporter and editor, freelance writer, and publisher of a biweekly newspaper-shopper. She loves writing, volunteerism, and politics. Kay and her husband live in rural Missouri and are the parents of five children and ten grandchildren. Their big, boisterous, and lively family enjoys spending time together at the Lake of the Ozarks and in the Colorado Mountains.