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Funny, you don't look Haplogroup H
June 3, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
For those of you with an understanding of science that can fit into a pine nut shell, you are like me. But, thanks to people who possess brain cells that I can only dream of, we now know that all modern humans started in the same exact spot in Africa. Approximately 50,000-60,000 years ago (according […]
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Funny, you don’t look Haplogroup H
June 3, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
For those of you with an understanding of science that can fit into a pine nut shell, you are like Life n the Boomer Lane. But, thanks to people who possess brain cells that LBL can only dream of, we now know that all modern humans started in the same exact spot in Africa. Approximately 50,000-60,000 […]
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Off to London in A Shopping Cart
June 1, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane is leaving for London in a week to celebrate the first birthday of First Grandchild. On her last visit, she, along with Younger Son’s girlfriend, Artist Janelle, attempted to smuggle said grandchild across the border from France onto the Eurostar train that goes through the chunnel, in order to get […]
Posted in: baby stroller, children, family, grandchild, grandchildren, grandparents, humor, London, mishaps, satire, shopping, travel, travel mishaps, UK
High School Reunion 45
May 31, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Last weekend, Life in the Boomer Lane attended her 45th high school reunion. In January, 1965, she graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls, a PUBLIC, all girls, college preparatory school, in which 90% of the graduates went on to college. The other 10% must have become either Rachel Ray or Queen Elizabeth. She […]
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The Seven Myths About Women Over 50
May 30, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
This is from a recent article written by Life in the Boomer Lane and two friends. All of these myths and more are dispelled in their book Saving the Best for Last: Creating Our Lives After 50. You can read more about them and their books at http://www.amazon.com. 1. Women over fifty don’t care what […]
Posted in: aging, baby boomers, boomer humor, boomers, dating over 50, diet, humor, myths about women over 50, satire
Cornering the Market on Craigs List Dryers
May 28, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane didn’t expect to be writing another post about another Craigs List dryer. But Now Husband can’t seem to stop buying dryers on Craigs List. He bought the last one a couple months ago from some people who sell appliances that other people have left in storage and never claimed. It cost […]
Posted in: marriage
The Vegetable Garden Pt1
May 27, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane has never had any interest in planting anything in the ground, tending it, watching it grow, and then eating it. She assumed that she was genetically unable to do so, because, for many generations in Eastern Europe, her family wasn’t permitted to own land, and so the “farming genes” were […]
Posted in: food
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Sixty isn’t the “New” Anything. Except sixty.
June 3, 2010
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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Life in the Boomer Lane is venting. She is seriously so tired of hearing people say things like “Sixty is the new fifty.” Or forty. Or even thirty. This morning, on one of the talk shows, she caught about 30 seconds of the guest going on and on about how sixty-year olds should go mountain […]