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We are getting smarter. Or, we are getting dumber.
August 13, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane, in an attempt to distract herself from the current havoc being wreaked around the planet by 1) people 2) infectious disease and 3) Bob McDonald, turned, instead, to psychological research to give her the lift she deserves. Researchers, who are immune to the flotsam and jetsam of political, religious, and […]
The Wisdom of Preschoolers
August 11, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane has had the opportunity recently to spend some quality time with her two grandsons, age five and three, if one defines quality time as a visit to a county fair, an outing on a pirate ship, a morning walk to get donuts, eating a lot of ice cream, and […]
Guerrilla Aging: Is There Life After Retirement?
August 8, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
There is almost as much written about retirement as there is about menopause. Before we start packing in order to head for the “best places to retire,” we get to wrap our heads around retirement in general. The following is a guest post by Deborah Drucker, the author of the new blog, Notes Tied on […]
The Universal Hot/Crazy Matrix: A Man’s Guide to Women
August 4, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
An alert reader sent a video to Life in the Boomer Lane titled “The Universal Hot/Crazy Matrix: A Man’s Guide to Women.” The chart was developed by Dana McLendon, a forty-something who looks like he spent a lot of time hugging the wall in social situations, trying to figure women out, before he decided […]
Guerrilla Aging: Leaving Normalcy Behind and Not to Our Grandchildren
August 1, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
The following is a guest post from Joyce Kramer, one of the co-authors of Saving the Best for Last: Creating Our Lives After 50. Joyce has done far too much in her life to fit into this small paragraph. Let us just say that she is an agitator, of the highest and best kind. ***** […]
The Real Key to Improving Brain Function is to Grab a Swimsuit and Then Toss it Aside
July 28, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
An alert reader has directed Life in the Boomer Lane to information that will allow her to immediately stop doing what she doesn’t do anyway. But now she doesn’t have to feel guilty about not doing it. Nicholas Spitzer, professor or neuroscience at the University of California and editor-in-chief of brainfacts.org, has a message for […]
Guerrilla Aging: Weighing In
July 25, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Children may grow up and leave. Husbands, jobs, finances may come and go. Residences, hair color, and bra size may change. Sometimes it seems that, for many of us, the only constant in our lives is the desire to lose weight. What is it about weight that has so many women in turmoil? We blame […]
The Difference Between Love and Lust
July 23, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Researchers from the University of Chicago, taking a break from doing things like finding a cure for cancer or chronic chapped lips, decided to study the difference between love and lust. They found out incredible things, like where on your body your date looks at you could indicate whether he is feeling love or lust. […]
Ointments, Salves, Lotions and Other Mysteries of Life
July 21, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
A friend of Life in the Boomer Lane, another woman-of-a-certain-age, was out of town, staying in a hotel, and preparing to meet her first ex-husband for lunch. In spite of the fact that there would be no interest on either of their parts for hanky panky (the vintage way of saying “sex,” not the […]
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Guerrilla Aging: Loss
August 15, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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The inevitable consequence of aging is that our losses multiply. Death is the loss many of us will think of first. Most of the people who defined our world in childhood will leave that world. Many of the friends we have accumulated along the way will be lost. Some losses, like divorce, may be […]