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How Boomers Saved Everything
December 28, 2013
While few would argue that boomers discovered fire and invented the wheel and the baby cage, AARP Magazine has a whole new crop of boomer achievements to present in its current issue. In fact, AARP will be devoting an entire year to slobbering over what we boomers have achieved. The first piece is by PJ […]
My New Year’s Resolutions
December 26, 2013
If you are getting excited about the prospect of making your list of New Years resolutions,and your list has been basically the same since 1967, you may want to take a gander at the following. The ten top New Year’s resolutions are: 1. Lose Weight and Get Fit 2. Quit Smoking 3. Learn Something New […]
Plane Speaking
December 11, 2013
Life in the Boomer Lane, having just returned from Florida, came back to disturbing accounts of the invasion of a new breed of cold weather-loving cockroach in New York, a 28% rise in Amazon forest deforestation, and US 15-year-olds receiving a C grade in reading and a below average grade in math (overall, slotted […]
Why Boomers Need TV Commercials
November 30, 2013
According to Forbes, Apple TV is working on a plan to pay cable companies to allow viewers to opt out of watching commercials. As a boomer, Life in the Boomer Lane will not know which medications she should be asking her doctor to give her. Worse, she won’t know about all the life-threatening side effects […]
The Model and the Boomer
November 20, 2013
It has come to Life in the Boomer Lane’s attention that if she doesn’t write about boomers soon, she might as well change her blog to Life in the General Doo-Doo Lane. To avoid this, she has returned to Boomerdom. Here goes: LBL loves shopping at Loehmanns. Aside from the discounts, it’s a store that […]
How to Board A Plane
November 17, 2013
Life in the Boomer Lane has had a lot of time lately to do an in-depth assessment of airline boarding policies. This has been done primarily while she has been boarding. And, since she has flown an inordinate number of times recently (due primarily to having three children in three completely different places, and […]
Butt Tag, Redefined
November 10, 2013
My friend Susan, when she isn’t having dates with men who wear antlers or slippers out to dine, goes to weddings. Susan attends more weddings than a bag of rice. After she finished attending the weddings of her countless friends, she soon began attending the second weddings of some of them. Even while that round […]
Blogging Your Way to Fame and Fortune
October 27, 2013
There’s a great piece in the NY Times Sunday Review by Tim Kreider, titled “Slaves of the Internet, Unite.”. Kreider is a writer, a real writer, lauded and respected. But he is caught in the same morass that we Lowly Worm bloggers are caught in when it comes to being expected to give our work […]
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Does Physical Attractiveness Make A Happy Marriage?
December 30, 2013
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If you are happy in your marriage and have absolutely no idea why, just keep doing whatever you are doing and limit your questions to “What would you like for dinner, dear?/What’s for dinner, dear?” But, if you want an answer, you might benefit from reading the following: The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology […]