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I’ll Trade You My VISA Card and Driver’s License for Some Small Plastic Containers
December 13, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane’s annual holiday shopping, in addition to items that can be purchased online, always seems to include items that can only be purchased by making the rounds of little stores that one would never think of to frequent for any reason whatsoever. This year, the hunt was on for small plastic […]
Bitch Planet
December 10, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Vox Magazine had an interesting article about a new feminist comic book titled “Bitch Planet.” This comic has deep and meaningful ramifications for society’s often misguided and misogynistic culture. But, since Life in the Boomer Lane stopped caring about comics once she got too old for Betty and Veronica, she doesn’t care about this. On […]
James Bond Beds A 50-Year-Old Woman. Applause, please.
December 8, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
For those of you who have been living inside a broken pay phone booth since 1962, you may not have been aware that James Bond likes his women plentiful, available, and pretty darn nubile. The average age of the men who have played Bond over the last 200 years, has been 43.5. The average age […]
An Open Letter to Elizabeth Lauten
December 1, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Dear Elizabeth, I’ve just read your Facebook letter to Sasha and Malia Obama, followed by your apology. First off, I am impressed that the Communications Director for a Congressman would take time out from her busy and important schedule to address herself to the sartorial appearance of the Nation’s First Daughters. I immediately checked your […]
Posted in: politics
Surprising Things I Am Grateful For
November 25, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
I am grateful for illegal aliens. My parents were born in Eastern Europe and each came here illegally. To this day I get chills when I hear or sing the Star Spangled Banner. On occasion, I am brought to tears. I thank the universe that my grandparents did what had to be done so that […]
Posted in: Thanksgiving
Guerrilla Aging: Advanced Style
November 22, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Ari Seth Cohen is a stalker, of the finest kind. For some years, he has been following people on the streets of New York, and asking them if he can take their photos. His motives are simple: to find ordinary people of extraordinary style. Given that we are talking about New York, here, and […]
The Secret to Perfect Hair
November 20, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Unless you have spent your life living pre-4000 BC, before the mirror was invented, you may have noticed that you have hair growing out of your head. Life in the Boomer Lane has noticed this since she was a toddler and her mother tried to comb her demented hair. Even putting bracing her foot against LBL’s […]
Love, Marriage, and Other Bad Stuff
November 17, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Since 1990, the divorce rate for Americans over the age of 50 has doubled, and more-than-doubled for those over the age of 65. Over half of all grey divorces are to people in their first marriages, who have been married at least twenty years. This can either be interpreted as an attempt to avoid […]
Guerrilla Aging: Elder Wisdom Circle
November 15, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
A few days ago, I started an online search for local volunteer opportunities. I always prefer working directly with people, and my most enjoyable and rewarding volunteer work to date has been tutoring pregnant teens, in a program that helps them complete their high school education. In addition to the academics, I always valued the […]
Posted in: aging, Guerrilla Aging
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Being Hanukkah in a Christmas World
December 14, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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(I’ve written several posts over the years, about being Jewish at Christmastime. I’ve just about covered all angles and decided to give myself a break this year. I’m re-posting an old piece. If you’ve seen it already, fee free to do something more worthwhile, like standing in an endless line at the post office or […]