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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 […]
Back to Basics
October 14, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane has been spending so much time wallowing in the TWO HUGE SCARY news items that are consuming the entire planet right now, that she has had little time to direct her attention to the normal drivel that readers have come to depend on from her. She has barely been […]
What Do Women Really Want?
October 6, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Reader’s Note #1: The following post is about yet one more expensive blob of scientific research To the question “What do women really want?” some men will answer “Money,” others will answer “Who the hell knows?” and those of a more prurient bent will answer “Seven inches or more.” Reader’s Note #2: Life in the […]
Guerrilla Aging: Friendship
October 3, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane was just visited for a couple days from two long time friends. Judy, since 9th grade. Susan, since 5th. The years of our lives have been filled with whatever fills years. We marvel each time we are together that we pick up exactly where we left off. We […]
I Have 10,000 Blog Followers
September 30, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
WordPress now tells Life in the Boomer Lane that she has 10,000 followers. She would immediately have to start purchasing larger hats were it not for several important facts: 1. She has no idea who these people are. The number of people who comment on her blog posts has actually gone down, not up. And, […]
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Guerrilla Aging: Faith and Spirituality
October 24, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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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 […]