When we moved into our home in Grand Prairie, Texas, 36 years ago, we fell in love with our neighborhood. Not only was it a quiet, shady street that calmed the soul after a hard day’s work, it was populated with friendly neighbors who welcomed us with open arms. We hadn’t been there long before we got to know our immediate next-door neighbors. Jim, a Dallas police officer who lived on the property to the south, relished waxing eloquent during our lengthy neighbor-to-neighbo

Having just turned 72, I fall into the earliest cusp of the Baby Boom generation, a huge group of Americans born during the two decades after the end of World War 2. Thus, I qualify as an authentic recipient of the “OK Boomer,” eye-rolling retort -”a viral internet slang phrase used, often in a humorous or ironic manner, to call out or dismiss out-of-touch or close-minded opinions associated with the baby boomer generation and older people more generally.” (dictionary.com) Wh