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Selling Off My Children's Futures

July 10, 2010

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Many people fondly remember the warm and fuzzy events of their childhoods: the sight of presents under the Christmas tree, a trip to the zoo or to the beach or to the amusement park, the taste of a favorite food that only Mom could cook so well.  Life in the Boomer Lane’s children, on the […]

Selling Off My Children’s Futures

July 10, 2010

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Many people fondly remember the warm and fuzzy events of their childhoods: the sight of presents under the Christmas tree, a trip to the zoo or to the beach or to the amusement park, the taste of a favorite food that only Mom could cook so well.  My children, on the other hand, remember things […]

Time Travel Without Frequent Flyer Miles

July 9, 2010

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On Tuesday night, there was an installment of a special series called “Through the Wormhole” on the Science Channel, hosted by Morgan Freeman, which is the only reason Life in the Boomer Lane watched it. She doesn’t like Science. Worse, science doesn’t like her, and is constantly foiling her attempts to do things like live […]

Funny, You Don’t Look Haplogroup H

July 8, 2010

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For those of you with an understanding of science that can fit into a pine nut shell, you are like Life in the Boomer Lane.  But, thanks to people who possess brain cells that she can only dream of, we now know that all modern humans started in the same exact spot in Africa. Approximately […]

Funny, You Don’t Look Haplogroup H

July 8, 2010

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For those of you with an understanding of science that can fit into a pine nut shell, you are like me.  But, thanks to people who possess brain cells that I can only dream of, we now know that all modern humans started in the same exact spot in Africa. Approximately 50,000-60,000 years ago (according […]

Cats Flying Off the Roof of My Car

July 7, 2010

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Miracle the Cat is the latest in a long line of cats Life in the Boomer Lane has had that she has really had no part in acquiring.  There’s not one thing she can say about Miracle or about any of my other cats that would be worth reading.  Writers far more clever than she […]

How to Be Famous For Two Days

July 6, 2010

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Until last week, there were two times in my life when I felt famous. The first was when I won a hula hoop contest. Before you imagine anything resembling a hot woman wearing a skimpy costume and gyrating her hips, I will tell you that it was when I was ten years old and it […]

What Husbands Do When Wives Leave Town. Again.

July 5, 2010

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Life in the Boomer Lane went to Delaware for the weekend with Sex-and-the-Sixty-Year-Old Susan. She went there to do a book signing at Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach. Susan would be there to helped her. LBL made jokes about Now Husband habit of making some kind of major purchase without consulting with her every time […]

My GPS Has A Different Accent Than Yours

July 1, 2010

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Life in the Boomer Lane has a GPS in her car.  She got it because there is no GPS in her head.  There is not even a G.  There is nothing in whatever spot is supposed to hold some sense of direction.  She would like to think that space is taken up by impeccable taste.  […]

What Husbands Do When Wives Leave Town

June 30, 2010

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Life in the Boomer Lane’s children all live in remote places, like London and Seattle and Charleston. Sometimes LBL likes to visit them solo. It’s a different kind of bonding than if Now Husband were with her. And LBL’s friends Jean and Joyce are both on Anna Maria Island in Florida. That can be another […]