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Guerrilla Aging: Guerrilla My Dreams
May 16, 2014
The following is a guest post from Janis, the author of the blog Retirementally Challenged. Today is her actual last day of work. On this most special occasion, she shares with us what it means to look back and to look forward. ***** As a young girl, I would often daydream about […]
Guerrilla Aging: Reinventing. Again.
May 2, 2014
The following is a guest post from Anna “Muddy River Muse” Schmidt. Anna, like so many of us at this age, has reinvented herself more than once. And she has discovered, as so many of us have, that it is the questions that often move us forward, rather than the answers. ***** I was offered the […]
Guerrilla Aging: The Serious Signs of Aging (sort of) by Kate Crimmins
April 25, 2014
The following is a guest post from Kate Crimmins, whose blog is Views and Mews by Coffee Kat. The subtitle of Kate’s blog is Kate’s Views on Life Edited by Four Opinionated Cats. Kate is lucky, indeed, that the cats have such strong editing skills. ***** “I don’t feel any different than […]
LBL Improves Her Brain
April 23, 2014
Lumosity is an online brain training and neuroscience research company that offers a brain training program consisting of more than 40 games in the areas of memory, attention, flexibility, speed of processing, and problem solving. Life in the Boomer Lane has several friends who subscribe to their service and all speak highly of it. LBL decided to look into it. LBL […]
Guerrilla Aging: Becoming A Reinventionista
April 10, 2014
The following is a guest post from Sherman Bedford. She usually writes poetry, and I am grateful that she has taken a departure from that to write the following. Her blog is in process. ***** My life is nothing like I ever imagined it would be. A year ago I almost died, but I […]
The History of Memory Techniques From 500 BC-2014 AD
April 8, 2014
The history of memory training began around 500 BC. This is because, prior to 500 BC, nobody did anything that had to be remembered. From one million BC to 500 BC, everyone killed things and ate them, raised things and ate them, and then died well before they got bald or developed back […]
Guerrilla Aging: Losing Youth, Gaining Perspective
April 4, 2014
The following is a guest post by Darcie Purcell, who had a huge ah-ha moment while watching her son’s high school football game. Darcie is lucky. It takes many of us much longer to have that same ah-ha moment. Others are still waiting. Darcie can be visited at Being 40: Shift Happens and her Facebook […]
90 is the New, uh, 90
April 1, 2014
It has recently come to Life in the Boomer Lane’s attention that, while she and her friends (roughly aged late 50’s to early 70’s) spend a lot of time bemoaning their physical and mental deterioration, a huge number of people are mindlessly cavorting through their 90’s, oblivious to the aging concerns that LBL and […]
Guerrilla Aging: I’m Not Where I Thought I’d Be, But I’m Exactly Where I Am
March 28, 2014
The following is a guest post by Lakota Grace (her name, alone, makes for a great story) a “71 year old, twice-divorced single lady who dyes her hair red, just because.” She can be visited at her blog, A Look Forward. […]
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Guerrilla Aging: Lucky Seven
May 23, 2014
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The following is a guest post from Carol Lostetter, the author of Just My Life. Seven years ago, Carol entered the mystical, overwhelming, […]