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3 Ways Your Divorce is More Complicated than It Needs to Be (and How to Fix It)
February 12, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
The following is a guest post from Aurora Family Attorney. Ned C. Kahn was born and raised in the Chicago area. He graduated from the Indiana School of Law in 1991 with honors. The Law Office of Ned C. Khan was opened in 1993 and has been representing clients in divorce, criminal and personal injury […]
Love and War. And Love.
February 10, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
There’s a iconic photo taken on August 14, 1945 by the legendary photographer Alfred Eisenstadt. It is the day World War II ended, and the photo is called “The Kiss.” A young sailor in Times Square (We assume he is strong, handsome, possessed of all the traits necessary to have single-handedly beaten the Germans […]
Posted in: love, Uncategorized
A Better Way to Celebrate Valentine’s Day
February 8, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Valentine’s Day, like most holidays we celebrate, started with pagan people being slapped with strips of goat hide dipped in sacrificial blood. Because Match.com hadn’t been invented yet, young women, after being slapped, placed their names into a big urn, and bachelors would choose a name and would be paired with that woman. After […]
Amazon Conquers the World
February 5, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
While the rampant mayhem of our beloved political process has diverted everyone’s attention from both ISIS and whether they should follow the Paleo Diet, something else has been afoot that Americans haven’t noticed: Amazon, after single-handedly obliterating most brick and mortar bookstores in the country, has been quietly opening brick and mortar bookstores of […]
What Makes A Good Grandparent?
February 1, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
A friend of mine has a father who spends little time with his grandchildren. He much prefers living his own life, rather than attending sports practices and school events. It turns out that this man is still working, and is actively engaged in his profession. He writes books and travels the world, teaching and lecturing. He […]
Posted in: grandchildren, grandparents
Why Can’t We All Just get Along?
January 29, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane could barely contain her sadness over the recent dischord between some mighty high profile people. She will now bring you up to date on these events so that you can be as depressed as she is: Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa Wiz tweeted something about Kanye’s new album “Waves.” Kanye […]
Leaving Hawaii
January 28, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane has just returned from Hawaii, where she had the rewarding experience of spending many hours in airports and on planes, contemplating the human race. At the Kona Airport, which is designed to look like a Hawaiian Village, rather than anything affording transportation, the gates were mere suggestions. LBL’s boarding […]
Emergency Republican Debate
January 25, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Donald Trump’s assertion that he could stand on Fifth Avenue and shoot someone, and his groupies would still support him, was met with outrage on the part of other Republican Presidential wannabees. Because of that, Republicans held a special debate, in which the top five candidates could have their say. It went something like this: […]
Trump Tests His Fan Base
January 23, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Donald J Trump, addressing a campain rally in Iowa, said of his loyal fan base, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay? It’s, like, incredible,” Life in the Boomer Lane is not making this up. She believes Trump’s atatement is true, unless the person Trump shoots is […]
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Trump: The Man, the Candidate, the President
February 15, 2016
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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Many years ago, I had a surgeon with a terrible bedside manner. He was abrupt and spoke above my level of understanding. There was nothing about this man that I liked. But he had a great reputation as a surgeon, and surgery was what I needed. And the surgical theater is not equivalent to the theater […]