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Selling Off My Children’s Futures
July 10, 2010
Many people fondly remember the warm and fuzzy events of their childhoods: the sight of presents under the Christmas tree, a trip to the zoo or to the beach or to the amusement park, the taste of a favorite food that only Mom could cook so well. My children, on the other hand, remember things […]
Selling Off My Children's Futures
July 10, 2010
Many people fondly remember the warm and fuzzy events of their childhoods: the sight of presents under the Christmas tree, a trip to the zoo or to the beach or to the amusement park, the taste of a favorite food that only Mom could cook so well. Life in the Boomer Lane’s children, on the […]
Time Travel Without Frequent Flyer Miles
July 9, 2010
On Tuesday night, there was an installment of a special series called “Through the Wormhole” on the Science Channel, hosted by Morgan Freeman, which is the only reason Life in the Boomer Lane watched it. She doesn’t like Science. Worse, science doesn’t like her, and is constantly foiling her attempts to do things like live […]
Cats Flying Off the Roof of My Car
July 7, 2010
Miracle the Cat is the latest in a long line of cats Life in the Boomer Lane has had that she has really had no part in acquiring. There’s not one thing she can say about Miracle or about any of my other cats that would be worth reading. Writers far more clever than she […]
How to Be Famous For Two Days
July 6, 2010
Until last week, there were two times in my life when I felt famous. The first was when I won a hula hoop contest. Before you imagine anything resembling a hot woman wearing a skimpy costume and gyrating her hips, I will tell you that it was when I was ten years old and it […]
What Husbands Do When Wives Leave Town. Again.
July 5, 2010
Life in the Boomer Lane went to Delaware for the weekend with Sex-and-the-Sixty-Year-Old Susan. She went there to do a book signing at Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach. Susan would be there to helped her. LBL made jokes about Now Husband habit of making some kind of major purchase without consulting with her every time […]
What Husbands Do When Wives Leave Town
June 30, 2010
Life in the Boomer Lane’s children all live in remote places, like London and Seattle and Charleston. Sometimes LBL likes to visit them solo. It’s a different kind of bonding than if Now Husband were with her. And LBL’s friends Jean and Joyce are both on Anna Maria Island in Florida. That can be another […]
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Life in the Boomer Lane 
Say what?
July 13, 2010
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There are times when, during the course of a perfectly normal conversation, someone will throw out a sentence that stops Life in the Boomer Lane in her tracks. This has happened three times this past week, an all-time record. The speakers are all people LBL knows: “She hasn’t been the same since she witnessed the […]