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The Difference Between A 1-Year-Old, A 3-Year-Old, A 5-Year-Old and a 67-Year-Old
June 26, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane has just returned from Seattle, where she celebrated her granddaughter’s first birthday. She will leave for Brooklyn tomorrow, where she will celebrate her older grandson’s fifth birthday (June) and her younger grandson’s third birthday (July). She now shares certain observations with her readers about the behavior exhibited at these ages […]
The Yard Sale: Land of Buzz Lightyear and Broken Dreams
June 16, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane’s neighborhood yard sale was yesterday. This year, the neighborhood combined forces with two other neighborhoods. In total, 125 families deposited all of their unwanted items in front of their houses, grabbed their cash boxes, and prepared to negotiate the value of something they didn’t want anymore. It was like […]
You Look Like My Ex. I love You.
June 12, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Scientists have long been fascinated by why people are attracted to other people. Every year, new theories emerge about what we look for in a potential mate. Some say that men look for women who remind them of their mothers, and women look for men who remind them of their fathers. The most […]
Biodynamic Farming: Poop in A Ram’s Horn
June 3, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Friends of Life in the Boomer Lane belong to a food coop. When they are out-of-town, she and Now Husband receive their share (30 lbs of root vegetables). Or an extra loaf of bread. The bread (and everything else), she was informed, was the product of biodynamic farming. LBL, plunk in the middle of her […]
Guerrilla Aging: The Next Twenty Years
May 30, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
I celebrated my 67th birthday this month, happy to be on this side of the dirt. Because of circumstances that occurred twenty years ago, the way I look at birthdays and aging has changed. One of my closest friends had just died of breast cancer. We were born in the same month in the […]
Let’s Talk Ice Cream
May 27, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
With the exception of some pretty blatant misrepresentation at the time Life in the Boomer Lane, age seven, was about to undergo a tonsillectomy: “You’ll be able to eat all the ice cream you want!” (The ice cream took on the form of nail-embedded sandpaper as it went down LBL’s throat), LBL has been […]
Guerrilla Aging: Lucky Seven
May 23, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
The following is a guest post from Carol Lostetter, the author of Just My Life. Seven years ago, Carol entered the mystical, overwhelming, […]
Posted in: aging, baby boomers, commentary, grandchild, grandchildren, grandmotherhood, grandparents, Guerrilla Aging
An Offer I Am Forced to Refuse
May 21, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Because Life in the Boomer Lane is both an extremely famous blogger and a former hula hoop champion, she gets a lot of offers. Luckily she has not yet received any that invite her to insert herself into her own anatomy. Most are from people who want to promote their writing and/or merchandise. Two have […]
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Aunt Gert Goes into A Nursing Home
June 30, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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Today, Life in the Boomer Lane and Now Husband moved her Aunt Gert from an assisted living facility in Pennsylvania to a nursing home in Northern Virginia. She invites anyone who cares, to join her in being outraged that a perfectly lucid (albeit heavily medicated and emotionally fragile) human being is forced to go […]