After working in the travel and tourism industry for over 30 years, I’ve had to learn how to be resilient.  I survived a divorce, met the love of my life and remarried, became an instant step-parent to three children and eventually a grandmother to five grandchildren, took care of both my parents for many years and buried both parents, got breast cancer, went through treatments and now am a breast cancer survivor, and all the time, I’ve tried to stay positive. 

The purpose of writing this book is to help people prepare for their own aging and those people they are taking care of as caregivers.  I hope this book will become a silver lining (personal/family preparation) for what could otherwise be very stressful times.   I call this the baby boomer life lessons because this is also my personal journey.  It covers many situations that we baby boomers will encounter during our lifetime, from taking care of our parents, learning to deal with death and grieving, children “boomeranging” back home, raising our grandchildren, leaving the workforce, either voluntarily or not, retiring and what our later years will look like. 

I am writing this book to help baby boomers with information I wish I had known as I went through life.  I needed one place, one reference book with checklists to make my life easier but it simply was not available. 

I hope you will find this information useful and that it perhaps, makes your life a bit easier as we navigate the highways of becoming the “next” generation.

Sincerely,

Judy Love Rondeau