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Running for Her Life
I heard her cries coming from the research carrel next to mine at the Holocaust Museum. Her name was Irene, a short middle aged woman, staring, as I was, at a computer screen. Hoping, as I was, that a relative’s name would appear that might prove that family members lived in more than stories told by aging […]
Word to Your Mother
July 21, 2011
Adult children are generally like people who work at the same office with us. We see them on a regular basis and we might even have lunch with them or go out for drinks after work or even go to their house for dinner. We know things about their personal lives, especially when they are […]
Grandma’s in the Basement (and Jr’s in the Attic)
June 20, 2011
If you start to hear strange noises from your attic or basement, don’t worry that you have been invaded by squirrels, mice, or zombies. Chances are more likely that it’s either one of the people who birthed you or who you, in turn, birthed. According to the Atlantic Monthly, which gets its data from a […]
Name That Turk
March 29, 2011
(credit: visualfunhouse.com) Everyone has a family tree. Now Husband Dan has a family tree, only the branches have a permanent bad hair day and refuse to organize themselves in any logical way. Part of this is because people in his family believe strongly in marriage and so they marry often, creating lots of half […]
Fullness
March 16, 2011
Tomorrow morning, I’ll board a plane for London to see my daughter and my grandson. I’ve been there many times, now. This trip, like all others will have its own unique character. The word “fullness” comes to mind when I think of this trip. My daughter: The fullness of belly, of breasts. Incubating her next […]
Happy 2011, via 1960 and 1963 and 1975 and…
December 30, 2010
When my ex and I split almost 20 years ago, the only items of real value to me that I wanted to take were the photos, the children’s memorabilia, my own memorabilia, and my artwork. Along the way, some of these items disappeared. Others were forgotten. A couple months ago, my ex and his wife […]
Cloudy With A Chance of Children
December 11, 2010
Life in the Boomer Lane is getting ready for the kids to descend on the house for the holidays (As she writes this, Jorge/George, the normally tree-climbing lawn guy, is dragging the ladder out of the garage so he can string the interior holiday lights.) Technically, they will be celebrating Chanukah, which will have already been over […]
My grandfather smoked for 75 years. My grandchildren are doomed.
November 4, 2010
Thanks to this week’s issue of Newsweek, I now know that “epigenetic changes in sperm are carried forward transgenerationally.” Don’t even bother to check your online dictionary. I’ll translate (I’m a full-service blogger): If your great-grandparents or parents or you or your partner participated in a potentially damaging lifestyle (Oh, let’s say like consuming the […]
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Life in the Boomer Lane 
August 25, 2011
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