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Guerrilla Aging: Lucky Seven
May 23, 2014
The following is a guest post from Carol Lostetter, the author of Just My Life. Seven years ago, Carol entered the mystical, overwhelming, […]
Guerrilla Aging: Guerrilla My Dreams
May 16, 2014
The following is a guest post from Janis, the author of the blog Retirementally Challenged. Today is her actual last day of work. On this most special occasion, she shares with us what it means to look back and to look forward. ***** As a young girl, I would often daydream about […]
Sex and Good Grammar
May 15, 2014
An alert reader sent Life in the Boomer Lane a joke titled “Sex and Good Grammar,” about a 74-year-old man who gets his fondest wish for his birthday. LBL won’t go into the details of the joke. She invites readers to Google it on their own. Instead, LBL got to thinking about the grammar […]
Marry Smart: Advice for Finding the One
May 3, 2014
Life in the Boomer Lane has been stalked lately by a bra (specifically a Bali, underwire full coverage). She is also being stalked by shoes, linen cardigans, comforters, tiny photo frames, and a stretch canvas buffalo. These are all items that LBL has, at one time or another, placed in her shopping cart on various […]
Things I Don’t Understand
April 21, 2014
There are a lot of things Life in the Boomer Lane doesn’t understand anymore, and she fears she is running out of time to make any sense of them. 1. She doesn’t understand why, when she flies (on a plane, mostly), TSA officials are always staring her down, ordering her to get into (or […]
Guerrilla Aging: When Where We Are Isn’t Where We Thought We’d Be
March 21, 2014
I had dinner with a friend/colleague a couple of days ago. She is sixty, and for decades was the devoted wife of a career military man. A registered nurse by training, she happily set aside her profession and assumed the role she felt was her highest calling. She raised her sons in wherever her husband’s […]
Guerrilla Aging: Navigating the Third Half of Life
March 13, 2014
Some time ago, Life in the Boomer Lane had the brilliant idea of starting a second blog, titled “Guerrilla Aging.” Because whatever talent she has does not extend to spelling, she bought the website “guerillaaging.com” After discovering her error, she purchased the correct website. And, because whatever talent she has does not also extend to […]
Seven Myths About Women Over 50
March 8, 2014
Back in 2005, two friends and I wrote a book titled “Invisible No More: The Secret Lives of Women Over 50.” We did it to dispel the myths about women of a certain age and to celebrate the good, the bad, the ugly, the inexplicable and the always-joyful that comes with being who e are […]
Does Physical Attractiveness Make A Happy Marriage?
December 30, 2013
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 […]
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Let’s Talk Ice Cream
May 27, 2014
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With the exception of some pretty blatant misrepresentation at the time Life in the Boomer Lane, age seven, was about to undergo a tonsillectomy: “You’ll be able to eat all the ice cream you want!” (The ice cream took on the form of nail-embedded sandpaper as it went down LBL’s throat), LBL has been […]