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Friendship Friday: Laughing Through the Worst to get to the Best
December 2, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Back in the fall of 1973, Life in the Boomer Lane met Miki, a fellow special ed teacher. Miki was tall. Her legs started at her ankles and ended at LBL’s neck. Her life experiences were as different from LBL’s as could possibly be. There were a lot of reasons why they connected. But the […]
Posted in: breast cancer, friendship
This New Orange Era: Who ARE These People?
November 30, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
It’s no secret that Democrats, especially liberal Dems, were devastated when Trump won the election. For them, it signaled the unleashing of the unwashed masses upon their educated sensibilities. Liberals felt like the Night’s Watch in Game of Thrones, as they saw countless hordes of White Walkers relentlessly scaling the wall of Castle Black, with […]
The New Dishwasher: Part 2
November 29, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Having just barely survived a love and chaos-filled Thanksgiving, Life in the Boomer Lane has been experiencing the same kind of whiplash that Mitt Romney must be feeling right now. But, while Mitt is being forced to remain in the political purgatory mode, LBL can move on to other important issues in her life and […]
Posted in: baby boomers, boomer humor, boomers, holiday, holidays, humor, husband, marriage, satire, Uncategorized
Pre-Thanksgiving: Joyful Mayhem Involving Large Appliances
November 23, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane has just hosted her children and grandchildren in a pre-Thanksgiving research project to test the theory that a house can hold 5.5 times the number of people it was designed to hold, as long as they are all related to each other. Six adults and five children occupied a space normally […]
Posted in: children, family, grandchild, grandchildren, grandmotherhood, grandparents, holiday, holidays, humor, husband, motherhood, satire, Thanksgiving, Uncategorized
Friendship Friday: Shopping Mayhem
November 18, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane has been thinking a lot about friendship, lately. She has written about friendship and friends in many blog posts. But in this current era of political uncertainly, she finds her friends to be even more of a comfort than they have been in the past. In addition, she appreciates the […]
This New Orange Era: Sex, Sexism, and the Politics of Sex
November 16, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane would like to take credit for the term “this new orange era,” but it goes, instead, to one of her loyal readers, MaryN. Throughout the next four years, LBL will occasionally be subjecting her readers to posts relating to our new orange reality. She has already accumulated a mental backlog […]
Time is Not on Your Side
November 14, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Contrary to claims touted by most products in the vitamin store, it turns out that human beings really do have a maximum lifespan. Researcher Jan Vijg of Einstein College of Medicine in New York has presented compelling proof for this Monday morning downer. For those of you older boomers who just had to mentally […]
Posted in: aging, baby boomers, birthday, boomer humor, boomers, humor, life, research, satire, science
Fine Dining With Friends
October 26, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane went to lunch yesterday with two friends. While they dined, they discussed important topics like politics, travel, and getting naked in a hot tub (prior life experiences with, not the possibility that the three of them would engage in such activity after lunch). After dining, they did a bit […]
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December 7, 2016
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