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Musings of a former hula hoop champion
The Hospital Stay
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 […]
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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 […]
My 10 Holiday Wishes for You
December 21, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Dear Readers, May you find joy this year in the loving embrace of family and friends. Or, if not, watching a really good movie, with some really tasty popcorn in your mouth. May you appreciate all the wonder and bounty in your life. Or, if not, believe that wonder and bounty are seriously overrated. May […]
News of the Weak
December 16, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
There’s no better way to start the weekend than with several news events that have invaded Life in the Boomer Lane’s ever-shrinking brain. LBL believes that if one cannot rid oneself of a demon, the next best thing is to share the demon with others. LBL now passes these little demons on to […]
This New Orange Era: The New Norm is Not A Norm
December 15, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Back in the 1950s, the US, having just survived a horrific war, settled down and chose a general as President. The theme was order and prosperity. The small world that Life in the Boomer Lane inhabited consisted of school, family and friends. The first two were orderly and predictable. School, above all, was a […]
This New Orange Era: The Test of Journalism
December 8, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
On Wednesday, Donald Trump was interviewed via phone by Matt Lauer. Lauer, a genuinely nice guy, is not a heavyweight in the world of journalism. Coming off the flack he received by his wimpy moderation of the pre-debate debate between Trump and Clinton, Laurer was prepared to do some hard talk, this time around. What […]
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January 18, 2017
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