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This New Orange Era: The Day After
January 23, 2017
There’s a novel I read, One Second After, about a high energy EMP (electro magnetic pulse) missile fired above the US by a country with which we were at war. EMPs kill no one directly. Instead, they cause all electronic activity to cease. In other words, computers stop computing, cars stop moving, cells stop working, and what […]
This New Orange Era: The New Norm is Not A Norm
December 15, 2016
Back in the 1950s, the US, having just survived a horrific war, settled down and chose a general as President. The theme was order and prosperity. The small world that Life in the Boomer Lane inhabited consisted of school, family and friends. The first two were orderly and predictable. School, above all, was a […]
Trump: The Man, the Candidate, the President
February 15, 2016
Many years ago, I had a surgeon with a terrible bedside manner. He was abrupt and spoke above my level of understanding. There was nothing about this man that I liked. But he had a great reputation as a surgeon, and surgery was what I needed. And the surgical theater is not equivalent to the theater […]
An Invitation to DO SOMETHING about the Environment
May 29, 2015
In a world that sometimes feels like it’s going to hell in a handbasket (and the handles of the hand-basket are ratty and chafing), Life in the Boomer Lane invites you to step back and ask the following: “What kind of world to we want for our grandchildren?” LBL’s own answer is “One that is better, in many […]
The Silliest Commercial: The Laughing Cow/La Vache Qui Rit, A Guest Post by Johanna van Zanten
February 27, 2015
Johanna is “a late bloomer who started writing my first short story when I turned sixty. As a newly single woman, with a lot of time on my hands and a wish to write a book, I got the hint and just started writing realizing, if not now, when? I continued writing short […]
Guerrilla Aging: Weighing In
July 25, 2014
Children may grow up and leave. Husbands, jobs, finances may come and go. Residences, hair color, and bra size may change. Sometimes it seems that, for many of us, the only constant in our lives is the desire to lose weight. What is it about weight that has so many women in turmoil? We blame […]
Guerrilla Aging: Guerrilla My Dreams
May 16, 2014
The following is a guest post from Janis, the author of the blog Retirementally Challenged. Today is her actual last day of work. On this most special occasion, she shares with us what it means to look back and to look forward. ***** As a young girl, I would often daydream about […]
How to Score A Husband by Valentine’s Day 2014
February 5, 2013
For those young single women out there who are contemplating celebrating yet another Valentine’s Day changing the kitty litter and searching for ex-boyfriends on Facebook, a new book by Suzanne Venker assures you that you will have a devoted husband at your side by the time the next chocolate-bloated Valentine’s Day rolls around. Venker says all you […]
How many books will you read this year?
January 22, 2013
I’ve just lifted my head from the latest page of the current book I’m reading, Spillover. Unless you want to know that a whole host of lethal viruses that used to live happily in animals are now packing up and moving into humans, don’t read this book. On the other hand, if microscopic mayhem gets […]
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Why Things Aren’t As Bad As They Seem
February 5, 2019
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In this age of rapid-fire communication, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all of the bad news that keeps popping up everywhere: Horrific weather events keep gently nudging us that we are on a collision course with the environment, and that far worse is in store. Democracies around the world are failing, replaced by dictators, […]