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Is There Such A Thing As A Happy Gene?
Contrary to what all of the grey-haired men whose girlfriends are twenty-somethings believe, this is not the happiest group of people on the planet. That distinction belongs to the Danes, who year after year, score at the top or near the top of the Happy Scale. Scientists have started to study why this might […]
How to Be A Good Jihadi Wife
November 1, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
It’s tough enough to be a good wife when one’s spouse has a 9-5 job. It’s a totally different kettle of fish to be a jihadi wife. Even a simple good-bye kiss at the door becomes quite complicated when one is wearing a burka and one’s spouse’s head is wrapped entirely in black cloth. […]
Guerrilla Aging: Money Honey
October 31, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Money means more than dollars. It’s tied to our sense of success, to security, to power, to independence. It can be what allows us, or stops us, from fulfilling our dreams. And, for most women, it’s something we don’t give much thought to until we are confronted with a major life change. For those […]
The History of Halloween
October 29, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Halloween is the longest-running holiday ever in the history of the world, except for Take Your Pet to Work Day. Halloween culture can be traced back to the Druids, part of the Celtic culture. The Celts were a squirrelly lot. They had no central government, no big important person in charge of everyone, […]
Kanye, Kats and Kontroversy
October 27, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Let’s be clear, right off the bat: This is neither a post about cats nor about Kanye. This is, however, a post about what happens once one writes a blog post that may be less-than-favorable, albeit satiric, about American icons. Let’s also be clear about something else: Life in the Boomer Lane is non-aggressive to […]
Dating Red Flags and How to Avoid Having Them Slap You in the Face
October 25, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
A woman who thought she had found her soul mate on an online dating site, ultimately found herself trapped in the chimney of said man. Last week, Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa, 30, was rescued by a team of firefighters after attempting to enter the man’s home in Los Angeles. Homeowner Lawrence Fernandez said the pair had been on […]
Guerrilla Aging: Faith and Spirituality
October 24, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
In the deepest places of our being, we tend to look at meaning beyond ourselves. We may know that our life expectancy is a finite number of years, but this doesn’t answer why we were put on this earth to begin with. We may know that cellular deterioration will be how most of our […]
Your Cat Wants to Kill You First and Then Make You Crazy
October 20, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
No one would deny that we have been drowning lately in a tsunami of very bad news. If you feel that things couldn’t get any worse, you should know that they just have. And, if you are a cat-owner, they have just gotten so much worse, that you might want to stop reading this […]
An Interview With 114-Year-Old Anna Stoehr
October 17, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane’s father was often fond of saying “The first 100 years are the hardest.” Anna Stoehr of Minnesota proves him wrong. Stoehr, age 114, was forced to lie about her age in order to join Facebook. She was born in 1900, but Facebook doesn’t let new users choose a birth […]
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November 4, 2014
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