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Living in A Multiple Choice World
January 15, 2018
Life has been either quite complicated lately or quite easy, depending on whether you prefer some semblance of truth or whether you simply prefer choices, based on nothing at all. We’ve had a lot of the choice thing in the past week or so: All of Africa and Haiti are shithouse countries. All of Africa […]
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 […]
How 140 Characters Will End the World
September 27, 2017
For those readers who are unable to follow the often confusing timeline of US/N Korean shenanigans, the following is a timeline (induced almost entirely by whatever is in Life in the Boomer Lane’s head this morning) of presidential Tweets, N Korean bleats, and administration tap dancing feet, regarding N Korea: […]
Small Lifeboat of Big Dreams
September 17, 2017
In 1989, Hurricane Hugo took a break from its path of major destruction to pick up a random, little lifeboat and deposit it just off Rt 171 on Folly Beach, at the southern end of James Island in Charleston, SC. Some believe that the boat had been used as a coast guard lifeboat during WW […]
The Political Punditry of Preschoolers
June 30, 2017
Life in the Boomer Lane has just returned from a week-long visit in Seattle with Older Son and his family. She had no time to monitor current events while doing so, but it turns out that the fourteen-month-old and the just-turning-four-year-old supplied her with updates throughout the week. latest GOP attempt at replacing Obamacare: […]
Amazon Eats Whole Foods
June 19, 2017
Amazon, in it’s trajectory toward world domination, has just purchased Whole Foods. Whole Foods, for those of you who live 50 miles outside of town and grow all of your own food, is an upscale grocery store chain, in which one can purchase individually-wrapped grapes, each with a story about country of origin and a […]
While I Was Gone
May 1, 2017
Life in the Boomer Lane has just returned from a whirlwind 12-day trip to the Pacific Northwest, first to Seattle and then to Portland. On her return, she was quite surprised to learn that, while she had been mostly oblivious to the greater happenings of the world during her trip, the world had continued to […]
The Heeby Jobbies and the Heebie Jeebies
July 5, 2016
A woman at a recent Trump rally asked “Why aren’t we putting our military retirees on that border or in TSA? Get rid of all these heeby jobbies they wear at TSA?” Trump didn’t correct her, either by clarifying that the word was “hijabis,” nor that the question mark at the end of the […]
Self-Identification and You
June 22, 2015
For the past couple weeks, it’s been a wild ride in the self-identification field. Caitlyn Jenner, in self-identifying as a woman, not only won a gold medal for transgender people around the world, but caused us to question our long-held notions of sex, gender, and how it is entirely possible to escape the clutches of […]
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