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Death by Audit
May 20, 2010
This week’s Newsweek has a really interesting articled entitled, “What Should You REALLY Be Afraid Of?” It lists common fears vs reality. For example, most people fear shark attacks (there were 28 last year) over dog bites ( 4.5 million). Most people fear fatal plane crashes (there were 321 people killed last year) over fatal […]
Gardening 101 (Part 1)
May 18, 2010
It’s that Scary Time again: time to be thinking about how Life in the Boomer Lane should be thinking about a vegetable garden. Or about Planting Something. In fact, Anything. This is when she gets totally stuck. Events are happening quickly. A few days ago, LBL went to a client’s house to get a contract […]
Man vs Cat
May 17, 2010
Now Husband has a long history with pets. This involves not having had any. Life in the Boomer Lane can totally understand that. NH grew up in various places where animals were just part of the landscape. If he felt like interacting with an animal, there were always a lot of goats around. In addition, […]
Keeping Up With Anything (even the Kardashians)
May 16, 2010
I had lunch today with my good friend Ellen. Ellen, like some People of a Certain Age, is slightly behind the curve on pop culture and pop technology. I sort of suspected this when she commented on one of my recent columns by asking, “Who is Heidi Montag?” The truth is, Heidi stars in a […]
Life in the Boomer Lane
April 20, 2010
Ah, about me. I was born in 1947, during the heady, post war years. The years when the easiest way to deal with the lives that were taken during the war was to create new ones. That makes me a Boomer. Class of ’69 to be exact. The year I entered Penn State, there were […]
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Life in the Boomer Lane 
I’m losing it.
May 21, 2010
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Many people in their fifties and sixties spend a lot of time worrying what they will do with all the spare time they will have when they retire. One remedy for many of those people, and a remedy that is frequently employed, is to start losing things, so that their time will be spent trying […]