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Women in Cars
Life in the Boomer Lane has always wished that she could secretly video any number of times that she has been in cars with groups of women. These video-worthy events are usually precipitated by being lost, concern about potentially getting lost, inability to find where one’s car is parked, confusion about how to exit parking […]
A Shopping Trip
May 9, 2017
Life in the Boomer Lane has a close friend who is a brilliant, highly accomplished visionary. Listening to her is both mesmerizing and inspiring. This weekend, she took a break from her international and political work in order to accompany LBL on a trip to a popular antiques/home accessories store. The shopping trip went something […]
The Hospital Stay
January 18, 2017
Life in the Boomer Lane has a close friend who picks atypical places for her normal life events. She fell in love with someone who was living in her basement, then married him in the winner’s circle at Monmouth racetrack. Not to be outdone by these diversions from the norm, she has just […]
Friendship Friday: Laughing Through the Worst to get to the Best
December 2, 2016
Back in the fall of 1973, Life in the Boomer Lane met Miki, a fellow special ed teacher. Miki was tall. Her legs started at her ankles and ended at LBL’s neck. Her life experiences were as different from LBL’s as could possibly be. There were a lot of reasons why they connected. But the […]
Friendship Friday: Shopping Mayhem
November 18, 2016
Life in the Boomer Lane has been thinking a lot about friendship, lately. She has written about friendship and friends in many blog posts. But in this current era of political uncertainly, she finds her friends to be even more of a comfort than they have been in the past. In addition, she appreciates the […]
A Friend’s Final Request
September 29, 2016
A friend of Life in the Boomer Lane brought up a very serious issue at their breakfast out, the other day. For those of you who are now completely distracted by the word “breakfast,” and want all the details, LBL will say that she had scrambled eggs (soft scrambled) and coffee. Nothing more. That […]
The Panties, the Plastic, and the Pico de Gallo
May 25, 2016
For the last couple days, Life in the Boomer Lane’s carton-infested attic has been occupied not with a contractor, but with a house guest. The aforementioned houseguest is actually a dear friend, who we shall call Joyce, because that is her name. Joyce lives in Florida but makes a twice-yearly drive up to Baltimore, where […]
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