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My 10 Holiday Wishes for You
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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December 21, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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