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Senior Dating: Love on the Go
March 16, 2015
Life in the Boomer Lane will be writing a series of senior dating articles for seniormatch.com. She will share each of those here first, before the folks at seniormatch publish them. Lucky you. Here goes: People are fond of telling their single friends who complain about their difficulty in meeting people, “You can meet […]
My Life in Front of the TV
March 12, 2015
For many years, Life in the Boomer Lane smugly told people that she didn’t watch network TV. She limited her TV viewing to shows on the Discovery and History channels (if religion consisted solely of archaeological hunts for the “real” Jesus and other mysteries of the Bible, LBL would be on board) , with […]
If This is March, I Must Be Falling Out of Love
March 11, 2015
Those of you who believed that March is most known for being Frozen Food Month, take note: It is also Breakup Month. Thanks to Refinery 29, the disseminator of all things worthy of being disseminated in our culture, A study conducted between 2008 and 2011 found that divorce filings peak this month, while an analysis of Facebook status updates […]
How to Make Anyone Fall in Love With You in 36 Questions
March 5, 2015
Ever since junior high schools were invented, people have been wondering how to make other people fall in love with them. In this attempt, they have passed notes saying “I love you, and even though you are with Sarah, I think you are hot,” asked best friends to pass on the message verbally (“You’re with […]
The Dress
March 2, 2015
A recent and ongoing phenomenon around the world is the reaction people have had to “The Dress.” Most of you who are reading this will now sigh and say, “Ah, The Dress.” Those readers who have been living in their bedrooms because they have run out of clean underwear, may not be aware of what […]
The Silliest Commercial: The Laughing Cow/La Vache Qui Rit, A Guest Post by Johanna van Zanten
February 27, 2015
Johanna is “a late bloomer who started writing my first short story when I turned sixty. As a newly single woman, with a lot of time on my hands and a wish to write a book, I got the hint and just started writing realizing, if not now, when? I continued writing short […]
The Age of Diversity
February 26, 2015
At some point in the recent past, the concept of diversity was invented. Having been invented, diversity could then attach itself to a lot of things that used to be considered problems. Now, we would know that these weren’t problems, but could, in effect, be included within the range of what was considered normal. This […]
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Scorecard for the Divorced, a Guest Post by Ron Colbert
March 23, 2015
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Ron Colbert is a freelance blog contributor. He has been divorced once, married twice, and is grateful for second chances in life! When Ron isn’t writing, he enjoys fishing, playing guitar, and spending time with his family of 7 children. He writes: I just found this wonderful blog, Life in the Boomer Lane, and in […]