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Give That Company An Oscar

February 5, 2024

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It’s easy to buy products we like, without knowing anything about the companies that produce them. Products that taste good, work well, look attractive, make us feel secure, and are easy to get, usually inspire us to whip out our credit cards. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, some of these companies are better than others at […]

The Robin Hoods of Tik Tok

January 22, 2024

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In a world in which we learn to ignore others in order to protect ourselves, a handful of intrepid young people are making names for themselves by doing the exact opposite. They come from different backgrounds, different life experiences and different ways of doing things. They share two characteristics: They see people and choose not […]

Firing on All Cylinders

May 1, 2023

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For the last couple weeks, every single time Life in the Boomer Lane starts to write a blog post, something crashes through her currently-firing brain cells that seriously diverts her attention. It’s like a fireball of headlines all barreling toward her at once. DeSantis Fires His Wrath Upon Disney World! Tucker Carlson Fired From Fox! […]

Who Are You and Who Are We Together?

April 4, 2023

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Some people take their childhoods and use them to define their view of the world. Others take their experiences and use them as tools to create powerful lives that their childhoods could never have envisioned. Lori Brewer Collins is a tool user. Lori’s vision of the world and her place in it is far more […]

The Human Library

March 13, 2023

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Instagram is Life in the Boomer Lane’s social media platform of choice. Lots of photos/videos, few words (unless necessary), and, for LBL, the ability to follow the work of whomever artists she chooses. But, at the risk of getting carried away with culture, here. LBL will say that she also follows her favorite fashion brands […]

Civit Poop and Other Good News

March 6, 2023

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Life in the Boomer Lane has been convinced for some time that SNL and Whatever-Those-People-Are-in-the-GOP, are in cahoots with each other. The WTPAGOP, with SNL’s help come up with whatever lunacy they come up with and then SNL makes fun of it on the show. They all profit from this by both amusing and horrifying […]

ChatGBT

February 16, 2023

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While we have been dealing with the usual array of grotesque political and environmental events, and, while the GOP has started to shoot presidential wannabees out of its maw to challenge the Big Guy, Life in the Boomer Lane has been aware of something brewing that is even more insidious: ChatGPT. For those of you […]

Death vs Something Else

December 15, 2022

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Life in the Boomer Lane keeps promising herself that she will no longer write anything about Donald Trump. On the other hand, she also keeps promising herself that she will stop talking about aging, her allergies, and the documented fact that she is getting shorter. She has failed in all of these areas. She now […]

When Men Were Men

December 1, 2022

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Beginning with the arrival of humans on the world stage was the natural proclivity of such humans to procreate. The mating process generally came down to those who owned a penis and those who were screwed by one. There were countless variations from the get-go, but, as these didn’t generate offspring, they weren’t given much […]

Born to Peck

October 24, 2022

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For the last few days, a Red-crested woodpecker has been at the top of the utility pole in front of Life in the Boomer Lane’s house. He has been relentlessly pecking away throughout daylight hours. He does not take breaks. The utility pole, as one might assume, is wood. But the object of the bird’s […]