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My Anti-Bucket List
Life in the Boomer Lane has a good friend who often refers to her bucket list, when talking about travel. Every time she does this, it occurs to LBL that she, herself, has no bucket list like that. While she certainly has a lot of places she would love to see, she can’t say that […]
A Private Conversation Between the Kushners
April 11, 2017
Ivanka: J Darling, the school just called to remind us about the parent teacher conference this evening. Jared: I dearest, you know I can’t. I’m negotiating a Middle East peace treaty this evening. I: J, this is your child, my love. Isn’t that more important? Those people have been around a long time, right? Like […]
Cuba!
April 4, 2017
I’ve just returned from Cuba. Somebody asked me how it was. My answer was “Better than I expected. Worse than I expected.” Like other Americans my age, I lived through the events of the Cuban revolution and its aftermath. But I was too young to understand what was going on. I only knew that there […]
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Socks: Covering More Than Just Feet
March 22, 2017
An alert reader has passed on to Life in the Boomer Lane the results of a research study about the benefits of non-conformity. Let’s face it. The human tendancy toward conformity has served us throughout the millenia. Without our need to belong to a group and to obey common rules and mores, we’d all be […]
Protecting Your Assets: A Cautionary Tale Part 2
March 20, 2017
As we age, and, as we deal with aging parents, we become more and more concerned with protecting assets. Sometimes, we can do everything we think is right, only to discover that doing what is right can result in getting it wrong. The following is Pt 2 of a guest post from Ina Nenninger, who […]
Protecting Your Assets: A Cautionary Tale, Part 1
March 15, 2017
As we age, and, as we deal with aging parents, we become more and more concerned with protecting assets. Sometimes, we can do everything we think is right, only to discover that doing what is right can result in getting it wrong. The following is a guest post from Ina Nenninger, who turned a negative […]
5 Facts About Online Dating
March 13, 2017
Pew is at it again. They have taken a break from all of their published research on the fallout of our presidential election and on current political trends, in order to focus on what really matters to people: online dating. This will have two benefits: First, it will, unlike politics, bring people together. Second, it […]
Cheap Genes
March 3, 2017
Thanks to AARP Magazine, Life in the Boomer Lane is told that her wide swings between thriftiness and excess can be blamed entirely on genetics. She can now efficiently file that away in the same place that she puts her height, intelligence and boob size. According to AARP, our genetics and brain wiring […]
Art and the Aged: The Surprising Benefits of Crafting and Creating for Seniors
February 24, 2017
The following is a guest post from Harvey Woods, a therapist who believes strongly in the arts and creativity. He writes about creativity and self-care for a better life. […]
This New Orange Era: The Growing Divide
February 20, 2017
For those of you who feel like you are caught in a Trump avalanche, know that you are. You want desperately to get out, but it seems that every time you start to wriggle your limbs, you precipitate another large chunk of snow dislodging and burying you even deeper. You may want to stop struggling, […]
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