Subscribe:
RSS feed
Musings of a former hula hoop champion
Browsing All Posts filed under »commentary«
Guerrilla Aging: Friendship
October 3, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane was just visited for a couple days from two long time friends. Judy, since 9th grade. Susan, since 5th. The years of our lives have been filled with whatever fills years. We marvel each time we are together that we pick up exactly where we left off. We […]
Guerrilla Aging: Rational Women Repeating Irrational Patterns
September 26, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
From time immemorial, women have been the bearers and guardians of children. It’s easy to see that because of women’s roles, they had to develop traits of steadfastness, loyalty, and the desire to nurture and to protect. By having a male as part of the family unit, food and protection were often assured, and mothers could spend […]
The Teen Video Competition
September 9, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
While we are all citizens of the world, few of us take our citizenship seriously. Beyond reading newspapers or listening to the news, beyond voting, beyond recycling, beyond attending a civic association meeting every once in a while, we limit our participation to complaining about what is happening out there. And there is […]
Guerrilla Aging: Weighing In
July 25, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Children may grow up and leave. Husbands, jobs, finances may come and go. Residences, hair color, and bra size may change. Sometimes it seems that, for many of us, the only constant in our lives is the desire to lose weight. What is it about weight that has so many women in turmoil? We blame […]
Guerrilla Aging: My Kilimanjaro, And Yours
July 18, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Amanda Royce-Hale, known to her readers as Wiseacre Way, chose that name because “I’m a bit of a wiseacre, I seek wisdom, I love acreage, I’m on my way somewhere, and I just like the sound of the words.” Amanda has been given all the stuff of a great life: a close family, long loving […]
Guerrilla Aging: Physical Surprises
July 11, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
After all the years we have spent looking into mirrors, why is it that we didn’t have a clue what was going to happen to our bodies after age fifty? We received advance warning about the effects of both puberty and childbirth, but nobody mentioned the changes that begin slowly around forty-five, then pick up […]
Guerrilla Aging: The Next Twenty Years
May 30, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
I celebrated my 67th birthday this month, happy to be on this side of the dirt. Because of circumstances that occurred twenty years ago, the way I look at birthdays and aging has changed. One of my closest friends had just died of breast cancer. We were born in the same month in the […]
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Life in the Boomer Lane 
The Depleted Gene Pool Weighs in On Ebola
October 21, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
48
Anyone with half a brain (and, apparently, there are a number of folks walking around with less than the required amount of brain mass) now knows, thanks to Rush Limbaugh, that President Obama is allowing Ebola to slip into America as a payback for slavery. This is a fascinating theory, since Ebola started in […]