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Being “Granddad” Without Having Been “Dad”
August 18, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Dan and I married in 2006. Dan lived in a high rise condo in Washington DC. He was single, with no children and no pets. I lived in a house in Arlington, VA. I was divorced after well over two decades of marriage, with three grown children and a cat. One year after our marriage, […]
Creating A Baby Sex Symbol For Fun and Profit
August 14, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Huggies has a new “limited edition” disposable diaper, made to look like denim. Life in the Boomer Lane is a great fan of denim, and she thinks the diaper is a stroke of genius. But she has a huge issue with the commercial that she has already seen at least six times. In the commercial, […]
Posted in: baby, commentary
Raising A Family On Bibimbap and Corrective Shoes
August 12, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
In 1977, Then Husband and LBL moved to a neighborhood called Lyon Village, putting them within a couple blocks of Clarendon, the commercial area that bordered the neighborhood. Clarendon was a pretty exciting place back then, if you enjoyed looking at the site of a vacant 5 and 10 cent store, or if you needed […]
Posted in: baby boomers, children, commentary, humor, Korean food, memories, raising children, Vietnamese food, Virginia
The Secret Lives of Office Workers
August 11, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Thanks to Freshly Pressed, I saw the clever young office worker who quit her job via a series of dry erase notices she sent to fellow worker’s emails. The punch line was that she calculated that her boss spent almost 20 hours a week playing Farmville. Whether that was a hoax or not, it got […]
Posted in: boomer humor, commentary, employment, humor, office, office workers, satire, self-employment, Uncategorized, working
Mayhem in the Air
August 9, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Only Daughter and her family arrived on Saturday from London, via British Airways. Before heading to the airport, Life in the Boomer Lane checked in with the BA website. She clicked the “Information” button in order to check if there were changes in the arrival time. The first option was “Cabin Crew Dispute.” The choices […]
Easy Rules for Baking Success
August 6, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
LBL loves to bake. Pies. Cakes. Cookies. Clay pots. You name it, she will bake it. Along the way, she has noted several rules that are really important for a successful result: 1. Read a recipe first and see what ingredients you still need before starting to bake. This will avoid the following when you are […]
Posted in: baby boomers, baking, boomer humor, boomers, commentary, cooking, humor, mishaps, opinion, satire, shopping
CSI: Arlington, VA
August 5, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane sometimes wonders what Miracle the Cat does at night. LBL knows that she patrols the property and that she (LBL) will very, very occasionally be greeted in the morning by a dead baby mouse on her welcome mat (Now Husband husband shrieks each time that they must immediately get rid […]
Go to Craft Fairs or Become A Lesbian
August 4, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Elisabeth Hasselbeck thinks a lot of older lesbians would have turned out straight if they could only land a man. The co-host of “The View” said older women who have led heterosexual lives are choosing same-sex partners because men their age are chasing younger women. “All the older men are going for younger women, leaving […]
On Safari in My Vegetable Garden
August 3, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
I have never had any interest in planting anything in the ground, tending it, watching it grow, and then eating it. I assumed I was genetically unable to do so because for many generations in Eastern Europe, my family wasn’t permitted to own land, and so the farming genes were sort of erased. But I’ve […]
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Being A Granddad Without Ever Having Been A Dad
August 18, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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Now Husband and Life in the Boomer Lane married in 2006. NH lived in a high-rise condo in Washington DC. He was single, with no children and no pets. LBL lived in a house in Arlington, VA. She was divorced, after well over two decades of marriage, with three grown children and a cat. One […]