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Taking the High Road
Life in the Boomer Lane no longer has any need to remember all of the fabulous, fun-filled adventures that she and Now Husband have partaken of. When he starts a sentence with “Remember when we went to…?” she cuts him off with the same question: “Did I have a good time?” All she is looking […]
That Word That Means That You Remember Something
January 26, 2017
Life in the Boomer Lane and her friends now save a lot of money on entertainment. Rather than attending movies, plays, shows, the ballet and symphonies, they regale each other with hilarious stories of missed appointments, missing objects, and misplaced people. This occurs mainly when they are out to breakfast or lunch or dinner or […]
The Answer to Age-Related Memory Loss
October 13, 2016
This entire presidential election season aside, most humans dislike forgetting things. They especially dislike forgetting things when those things consist of cell phones, credit cards, medical appointments, and the locations of our cars and grandchildren. Forgetting can cause confusion and subsequent embarrassment. A close friend of Life in the Boomer Lane, already owning a long […]
Mastering Your Memory
September 8, 2015
Two months ago (Note to readers: If the word “ago” causes you to have an anxiety attack, this post is for you), Life in the Boomer Lane took advantage of a memory workshop, “Mastering Your Memory,” being offered to the Realtors in her company. The company offering the workshop promised that by taking the workshop, […]
Guerrilla Aging: Lounging At the Bottom of the Learning Curve, a guest post by Paula J Wray
February 6, 2015
Paula is the author of PaulaJWray. In her own words, “I am a writer. Mostly humor. Sometimes I vent and sometimes I wax spiritual, philosophical, or poetic. I even try my pen at flash fiction and creative non-fiction. I live in the Rocky Mountains with my husband and a balding black cat. When I’m not […]
Guerrilla Aging: Memories Lost and Found
September 12, 2014
If we are an accumulation of all of our memories, then many of us are in serious trouble. Memories, like socks, often appear and disappear in random fashion. Sometimes, their appearance, like the errant sock, makes a match, and we once again capture a complete memory. More often than not, the lone memory, like […]
The History of Memory Techniques From 500 BC-2014 AD
April 8, 2014
The history of memory training began around 500 BC. This is because, prior to 500 BC, nobody did anything that had to be remembered. From one million BC to 500 BC, everyone killed things and ate them, raised things and ate them, and then died well before they got bald or developed back […]
Those Goddamn Doors
April 3, 2013
If you have never experienced walking into a room and forgetting what you came there for, please stop reading immediately and go stand in a corner with all the other people this writer has no interest in communicating with. The rest of you, listen up: Science, taking a short break from predicting tsunamis, erupting volcanoes, […]
Hmmm…Aren’t You Forgetting Something?, a guest post by Mrs. Cap’n Firepants
February 7, 2013
Mrs. Cap’n Firepants, (which might rival Dr Seuss for Most Memorable Pen Name) writes that she is “the distinguished authoress of the blog, What I Meant 2 Say.” She also writes that “she completely defied aging until about two years ago – when she acquired the infamous and extremely destructive bulldog, Wonderbutt. Now, her wrinkles outnumber the dog’s. […]
Navigating the Bridge to Nowhere
July 16, 2012
The aging brain is like a GPS. You know where you are headed, and your brain appears to be perfectly capable of sending you there. But you notice with increasing frequency that you are told to make a right turn, then, when you do, to make a U-turn. You may ultimately get where you want […]
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Life in the Boomer Lane 
February 26, 2018
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