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Condocalypse
A lot of people worry about any number of ways their lives might be snuffed out, in this scary new world. Hordes of murderous immigrants pouring across our borders, nuclear war, super-resistant strains of bacteria, and the accelerating pace of climate change all occupy their thoughts. Yet, while many fret, others have made […]
That Word That Means That You Remember Something
January 26, 2017
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane and her friends now save a lot of money on entertainment. Rather than attending movies, plays, shows, the ballet and symphonies, they regale each other with hilarious stories of missed appointments, missing objects, and misplaced people. This occurs mainly when they are out to breakfast or lunch or dinner or […]
This New Orange Era: The Day After
January 23, 2017
by Life in the Boomer Lane
There’s a novel I read, One Second After, about a high energy EMP (electro magnetic pulse) missile fired above the US by a country with which we were at war. EMPs kill no one directly. Instead, they cause all electronic activity to cease. In other words, computers stop computing, cars stop moving, cells stop working, and what […]
Posted in: feminism, feminist movement, opinion, politicians, politics, Washington, women, women's rights
The March:Nursing, Pumping, and Diapering in the Name of Democracy
January 22, 2017
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane marched with her daughter, 7-month-old grandson, a group of her daughters friends and their small children and babies. Needless to say, LBL was the only person in the group who also marched during the Vietnam War and was a member of Women’s Lib. For that reason, LBL considered […]
The Hospital Stay
January 18, 2017
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane has a close friend who picks atypical places for her normal life events. She fell in love with someone who was living in her basement, then married him in the winner’s circle at Monmouth racetrack. Not to be outdone by these diversions from the norm, she has just […]
The Women’s March on Washington 1/21/17
January 16, 2017
by Life in the Boomer Lane
My parents were Eastern European Jews, who came here in the years between WWI and WWII. When people hear this, most will say, “Well, luckily, they weren’t in Europe during the Nazis’ time.” That is correct. But, while they escaped Nazism, they lived the brutality that preceded it. They lived the massacres of the pogroms, […]
Replacing A Baby With A Burrito
January 8, 2017
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane is in Charleston, where Youngest Child and Daughter-in-Law have just produced their first child, after a mere 36-hour labor. DIL is a yoga and natural food devotee and so was the perfect subject for the doula’s attempt to place her body in more positions than are contained in the […]
Posted in: baby, baby boomers, childbirth, children, family, humor, mishap, mishaps, motherhood, mothers, satire
Putin on the Ritz
December 30, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
The Obama Administration (yes, it still exists), after weighing all evidence presented by the CIA and other government-investigative agencies, has imposed sanctions on Russia for hacking into the DNC website. Thirty-five Russian diplomats have been expelled, and two facilities used for intelligence-gathering have been closed. One of these facilities is a so-called dacha on […]
How to Appreciate 2016
December 28, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
For those of you who look back and see 2016 as a year that felt like a trip through a scary haunted house in which, after you have narrowly avoided death at every turn, the monster waits until you are just outside and then, when you think you are home free, he catches up with […]
This New Orange Era: Rule by Tweet
December 26, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
It’s no secret that the PEOTUS prefers to convey vital information to the American public via Twitter. Twitter has some distinct advantages. It allows short bursts of thought, without reference or analysis. It is unfiltered. It allows feedback only in the form of other Tweets, not in any real engagement. It gives the Tweeter […]
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January 31, 2017
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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