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There Was a Crooked Man…
March 30, 2015
Life in the Boomer Lane, discarding any number of current world atrocities she could wax poetic about, has instead chosen to entertain readers with her current kitchen improvement project. This project includes custom cabinetry of the one existing cabinet in her kitchen, installation of concrete counter tops to the two mini-counters her kitchen has, […]
Why Older Men Should Date Younger Women
March 25, 2015
Women over the age of 50 have been complaining ever since their 50th birthday parties that men their age prefer younger women. Life in the Boomer Lane has written several posts that attempt to dispel that dangerous belief. She has been unsuccessful. She now throws in the towel and joins the other side. As […]
Scorecard for the Divorced, a Guest Post by Ron Colbert
March 23, 2015
Ron Colbert is a freelance blog contributor. He has been divorced once, married twice, and is grateful for second chances in life! When Ron isn’t writing, he enjoys fishing, playing guitar, and spending time with his family of 7 children. He writes: I just found this wonderful blog, Life in the Boomer Lane, and in […]
My Life in Front of the TV
March 12, 2015
For many years, Life in the Boomer Lane smugly told people that she didn’t watch network TV. She limited her TV viewing to shows on the Discovery and History channels (if religion consisted solely of archaeological hunts for the “real” Jesus and other mysteries of the Bible, LBL would be on board) , with […]
If This is March, I Must Be Falling Out of Love
March 11, 2015
Those of you who believed that March is most known for being Frozen Food Month, take note: It is also Breakup Month. Thanks to Refinery 29, the disseminator of all things worthy of being disseminated in our culture, A study conducted between 2008 and 2011 found that divorce filings peak this month, while an analysis of Facebook status updates […]
How to Make Anyone Fall in Love With You in 36 Questions
March 5, 2015
Ever since junior high schools were invented, people have been wondering how to make other people fall in love with them. In this attempt, they have passed notes saying “I love you, and even though you are with Sarah, I think you are hot,” asked best friends to pass on the message verbally (“You’re with […]
The Dress
March 2, 2015
A recent and ongoing phenomenon around the world is the reaction people have had to “The Dress.” Most of you who are reading this will now sigh and say, “Ah, The Dress.” Those readers who have been living in their bedrooms because they have run out of clean underwear, may not be aware of what […]
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 […]
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Life in the Boomer Lane 
Everything Butt
April 1, 2015
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A recent study out of The University of Texas at Austin analyzed men’s mate preferences and found that men prefer a woman with a 45.5 degree curve from back to buttocks. Allegedly, this degree of curve signifies an ability to “better support, provide for, and carry out multiple pregnancies,” in addition to having a […]