Can’t We All Just Agree to Agree?

May 6, 2019
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All red-blooded, God-fearing Americans should be greatly relieved that Donald Trump, President of the United States, and Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, talked for an hour last week and Trump was able to see Putin smiling through a landline.  This is confirmtion that Trump is the most powerful person on the planet and has powers […]

Where There’s A Will

May 3, 2019
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Life in the Boomer Lane has always prided herself in being a take-charge person. She makes major life decisions easily and never lets the mail pile up. She takes full responsibility for all areas of her life, except for technology, and everyone knows that technology isn’t something that anyone should ever take responsibility for. She […]

The Real Alien Menace

April 29, 2019
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What with all the nonsense going on in the world right now, it is understandable that some folks might not have UFOs on their radar, so to speak. If you are one of these people, know that, while you are going about your daily business, worrying about trival items like nuclear war, climate change, the […]

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Getting Buzzy Before the Omnicide

April 24, 2019
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Life in the Boomer Lane has noticed for the past couple decades that various words that usually reside in her brain have either vacated permanently or have decided to take a temporary break, believing that they are no longer needed. These words include most common nouns like shoe, knife, keys, etc. LBL has ongoing internal […]

The Diminishing Need to Age

April 17, 2019
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Many people born in the first half of the twentieth century have become concerned about their ability to outlive the current administration. Good news is on the horizon for these people, and it has nothing to do with Trump deciding to abdicate in favor of shooting himself up into space in order to become Emperor […]

Posted in: aging, humor, research, satire

Game of Thrones for Dummies

April 15, 2019
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In the Free City of Pentos, Viserys and Daenerys Targaryen lived in the manse of Magister Illyrio Mopatis. Illyrio has brokered a deal to wed Daenerys to Khal Drogo, the warlord of a Dothraki khalasar of forty thousand warriors So begins the Game of Thrones, an epic tale of hundreds of main characters inhabiting the mythical Medieval-like world of Westeros, […]

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The Meaning of Dreams

April 9, 2019
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This week, Life in the Boomer Lane dreamt that she was with Prince Charles, shortly after Diana’s death. Prince Charles was represented in the dream by the persona of a close friend of LBL. LBL coached him (the actual Charles, inside of LBL’s friend) in a concise, transformational way about the meaning of his life, […]

Dating Over 50

April 1, 2019
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The following is a guest post: Dating over 50 may seem daunting. If you’ve been trying to find that special someone for a while, dating starts to become exhausting. On the other hand, if you’re re-entering the dating pool after a long absence, you could feel out-of-place. Luckily, making a few small changes to what you thought […]

The Connection Between Dust and Weight Gain

March 27, 2019
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With the exception of the seemingly innocuous phrase “dust bunnies,” dust has always had a well-deserved bad rap in history.  A Korean dust event in 174 AD, was called Woo-Tou or Tou-Woo.  In spite of it’s catchy name, it ruined countless lives.  Massive dust storms caused by severe drought in the US Great Plains staes […]

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Layers of Paint, Layers of Lives

March 18, 2019
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While in Morocco, Dan and I had the unique opportunity to spend the day with a friend of one of Dan’s friends.  Mhammad Benaboud is a native of Tetouan, a town about an hour’s drive from Tangier. He has spent most of his life having a love affair with his native town. And, he has been […]

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