Mark Knows It All

I am 56 years old, and feel like I am 20 years younger. I keep a full schedule at work, doing things now that years ago I never would have imagined myself doing. Other than some GI distress, I am relatively healthy. I sleep a little more on the weekends, but still want to have fun. Imagine my mental distress when I read on the internet that I am in the “wrong demographic”. How can that be? My wife and I are full blown baby boomers, the largest segment in our society. Our kids are grown and their college is either paid for or pert near paid for. We are at our peak earning years. We have expendable income, and less than expendable time that we are looking to use in a fulfilling manner. Nonetheless, when the cable television networks the WB (A Time Warner subsidiary) and UPN (A CBS Viacom subsidiary) merged last May to form the new CW television network, us boomers were deemed to be the wrong demographic. How did I find out? One of the few television shows my wife and I watch on a regular