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The Missing Body Parts of Women Over 50
December 30, 2011
(The following is the ninth in Life in the Boomer Lane’s new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a really slow weekend, blogging-wise.) LBL’s tonsils have been gone […]
Take my knee. Please.
December 22, 2011
NBC News yesterday evening came out with a breaking (No pun intended. But I wouldn’t believe that last sentence, if I were you.) story about the upsurge in hip and knee replacements among boomers. Boomers have long felt that they were only as old as they believed themselves to be. For this reason, they consider […]
7 Quick Steps to Better Sex
December 15, 2011
AARP has come out with a guide to “7 Quick Steps to Better Sex.” This is important for two reasons. One is that the steps are “quick.” If they weren’t, we might get caught in mid-air, forgetting why the chandelier is at eye level and why there is a naked person lying on the bed […]
The Aging Brain
December 8, 2011
In its current Health & Science section, The Washington Post addresses itself to a topic that a lot of people over the age of 50 think about daily, when they aren’t trying to remember why they are standing naked in the garage, holding a spatula. “The Aging Brain” tells us that, contrary to what scientists […]
Good News for Seniors: It’s Getting Easier to Get A Date
December 6, 2011
ABC Evening News featured that startling revelation last week. The latest U.S. Census Bureau accounting of older Americans has revealed that the senior population is not only larger than ever before, at 40.3 million, it also includes a larger proportion of men, given their increasing life expectancy. In 1990 there were only 82.7 men for […]
Ur-ine Control
December 1, 2011
Many people, especially older boomers, often wonder why technology is important. They mostly wonder this at the exact time they are using technology. At other times, they pretend technology doesn’t exist. But pretending technology doesn’t exist is dangerous. Imagine a massive, rabid bear (technology) beating your front door down (your actual front door), clawing your […]
Medicare: Uncovered
November 29, 2011
Medicare, the federal system of health care for folks over age 65, comes at a really bad time in our lives, since at the exact moment it arrives, all available brain cells are either busy looking for car keys, permanently asleep on the job, or wondering if we have just baked the cooking shears into […]
And she Spanx, too.
November 18, 2011
before and after Spanx (The following is the fourth in my new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a slow weekend.) I bought a lovely dress […]
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Top iPhone Apps for Post-50s Folks
January 2, 2012
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Thanks to Huff/Post, we post-50s can stay up on the latest apps to make our lives worth living: The “It’s Done” app allows you to look back confidently that you did, indeed, take that vitamin or medication, turn off the oven, or write to the newspaper with unique ways to solve the budget deficit. There […]