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Being Not Normal in 2018
January 2, 2018
The holidays are over and now Life in the Boomer Lane can get back to normal. Her first order of business will be to find out what “normal” is. She hasn’t been successful thus far. The word continues to elude her. Yesterday, she was asked at a walk in clinic what her height and normal […]
Words of My Fantasy Democratic Candidate for President 2020
November 6, 2017
(Note to Readers: Life in the Boomer Lane has recently been appalled by the predictable silence that has followed the Vegas massacre, the proposed new tax code, the administration announcement that fossil fuels will prevent both sexual abuse and reduce climate change, and a just-viewed recruitment video posted by the NRA in June. And now, […]
An Open Letter to Victims and Family Members of Future US Mass Shootings
October 5, 2017
Dear Future Victims and Family Members, I realize that, while I am grieving for the people who died in Las Vegas, as well as for those who loved them, I must also reserve room for all of you who will have been the victims and loved ones of victims of mass shootings to come. After […]
A Valentine for POTUS
February 6, 2017
Dear POTUS, This year, I’m sending you a Valentine, not because I love you or respect you, but because I love my country. And you are the duly-elected symbol of that country. You may not know that I love my country, since I’m not in the pro-life movement, I don’t attend church, fear […]
The Women’s March on Washington 1/21/17
January 16, 2017
My parents were Eastern European Jews, who came here in the years between WWI and WWII. When people hear this, most will say, “Well, luckily, they weren’t in Europe during the Nazis’ time.” That is correct. But, while they escaped Nazism, they lived the brutality that preceded it. They lived the massacres of the pogroms, […]
This New Orange Era: Rule by Tweet
December 26, 2016
It’s no secret that the PEOTUS prefers to convey vital information to the American public via Twitter. Twitter has some distinct advantages. It allows short bursts of thought, without reference or analysis. It is unfiltered. It allows feedback only in the form of other Tweets, not in any real engagement. It gives the Tweeter […]
Teaching Trump in 1972
January 4, 2018
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Yesterday, a weather event arrived on the East Coast, so severe that it was called a bomb cyclone. People were glued to their TVs. Significant snow arrived in places that rarely saw snow. New York, in a highly irregular move, announced school closings. Ferocious wind arrived. CNN blared that the temperatures were lower than Mars. […]