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A Private Conversation Between Big POTUS and Little POTUS
Mike, I’ve called you in to talk about the anynimus letter written to the Failing Subversive Scary Lying and Cheating New York Times. I didn’t do it, Sir. I know you didn’t, Mike. But we have to find out who did. Anunismiss things like this can fuck everything up for us. I’ll swear by it, […]
Illusion of control: Why the world is full of buttons that don’t work
September 4, 2018
by Life in the Boomer Lane
CNN, amid all of the stories that have world import, has finally come up with a story that actually means something in our own tiny personal universes: the countless buttons in our lives that are intended to give us a sense of being in control. This is because, basically, our lives are out of control. […]
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Fear, Political Intrigue, Fake News and Poop
August 29, 2018
by Life in the Boomer Lane
All of the words we are now using to describe the tumultuous and scary goings on in our country have finally arrived at Life in the Boomer Lane’s doorstep. Yesterday, LBL met a colleague for a working breakfast, then returned home. As she approached the front porch, she saw what appeared to be a pile […]
The 10 Year Plan
August 27, 2018
by Life in the Boomer Lane
About 18 months ago, LBL looked around and wondered where various members of her family had gone to in the last five years or so. Based on their departures, as well as the ages at which her parents and other assorted family members departed, LBL calculated that she, herself, had about 10 years left to […]
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Getting Out the Vote
August 23, 2018
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Like many other Americans (roughly half of the population) Life in the Boomer Lane has been inhabiting an alternate universe since November 8, 2016. On this date, we learned that the other half of the population had done something completely inexplicable. And, in the time since, the lines have been even more firmly drawn. Many […]
A Look Back and A Look Way Back
August 13, 2018
by Life in the Boomer Lane
After Then Husband and I married and went to grad school, we lived frugally and saved most of our monthly fellowship stipends. At the end of the year, we had saved enough for a student flight to Europe, two sleeping bags, a Coleman stove, and a pup tent. We had enough left over for eight […]
Your Life in Trash
August 1, 2018
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Some years ago, when Life in the Boomer Lane decided to create a stone patio/terrace in her backyard, she hired a man whose father had been a gifted stone mason. Allegedly, the son had been taught by his dad. Although the project began well, the son’s drinking and unreliability ended with LBL paying the last […]
IQ’s Slippery Slope
July 23, 2018
by Life in the Boomer Lane
At any given moment, half of the US population is walking around wondering what on earth has happened to the other half. Are they not paying attention? Do they not realize what is happening to this country? Do they not see the erosion of human rights, the widening gap of haves and have-nots, the destruction […]
Lord of the Flies
July 18, 2018
by Life in the Boomer Lane
A couple of weeks ago, a pesky (aren’t they all) fly entered Life in the Boomer Lane’s house. LBL loves all living creatures. She makes an exception for mosquitoes and flies. She yelled to Now Husband to kill the fly. Now Husband rushed into the room holding a can of insect spray and proceeded to […]
Friday the 13th
July 16, 2018
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane was home several days ago, minding her business and having nothing in particular to do. She whiled away the time listening to POTUS call his own interview with the London Sun newspaper, in which he had dissed the Prime Minister of the UK, “fake news.” May’s reaction was to move […]
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September 10, 2018
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