About

Although this blog started as a travel blog for both of us, it has evolved into my blog over the past eight years. So even though the website says boylemackay, it is just Ann doing the writing. I write about technology, ageism, and “living in community” in an Erickson Senior Living managed CCRC.

Home Base: Charlestown Retirement Community, Catonsville, MD.

Plan: Travel as long and as often as our health and money allow. Enjoy the amenities of life in a full-service community and cruise from Baltimore when our health and money allow.

Interests: I have worked with and for older people since age 16 and am now an older person living the good life in a CCRC. After a career in long-term care services as a nurse and association executive, I am now living in a community I recruited as a member of the association I managed.

My passions haven’t changed over the years. I still rail against injustices. I want fairness, justice, and a world free from ageism and ableism.

I am a tech-savvy woman who fell in love with her first Mac, a 512E, in 1985. Thirty-eight years later, I wear an Apple Watch to go with my iPhone 14 Pro,  iPad Pro, Mac Mini, and AirPods Pro. I  like to tutor others on the joys of technology. I co-lead the registered Apple User Group on campus.

My husband, Dan, is a family genealogist who specializes in North Dakota and Irish sources. He is very proud of his North Dakota pioneer roots. His cousin Chuck Boyle has curated many of his family history and stories under the Genealogy menu. Dan’s federal career spanned 33 years in the Medicaid program. In retirement, he became a baker and mastered yeast bread. He enjoys men’s water aerobics and the Poet’s Corner here.