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The History of Memory Techniques From 500 BC-2014 AD
The history of memory training began around 500 BC. This is because, prior to 500 BC, nobody did anything that had to be remembered. From one million BC to 500 BC, everyone killed things and ate them, raised things and ate them, and then died well before they got bald or developed back […]
The Case Against Marriage
April 7, 2014
Mickey Rooney, deceased as of this week, was known as much for being a serial husband (eight marriages) as he was for his long, legendary career as an actor. Rooney’s death got Life in the Boomer Lane to put down her can of salted cashew nuts and start thinking. How was it possibly that […]
Guerrilla Aging: Losing Youth, Gaining Perspective
April 4, 2014
The following is a guest post by Darcie Purcell, who had a huge ah-ha moment while watching her son’s high school football game. Darcie is lucky. It takes many of us much longer to have that same ah-ha moment. Others are still waiting. Darcie can be visited at Being 40: Shift Happens and her Facebook […]
Posted in: aging, baby boomers
90 is the New, uh, 90
April 1, 2014
It has recently come to Life in the Boomer Lane’s attention that, while she and her friends (roughly aged late 50’s to early 70’s) spend a lot of time bemoaning their physical and mental deterioration, a huge number of people are mindlessly cavorting through their 90’s, oblivious to the aging concerns that LBL and […]
Guerrilla Aging: I’m Not Where I Thought I’d Be, But I’m Exactly Where I Am
March 28, 2014
The following is a guest post by Lakota Grace (her name, alone, makes for a great story) a “71 year old, twice-divorced single lady who dyes her hair red, just because.” She can be visited at her blog, A Look Forward. […]
Posted in: aging
The Myth of Men Not Being Able to Commit
March 26, 2014
Life in the Boomer Lane is continually amused by the glut of articles she sees about the inability that many men have to commit to relationships. Her own experience is that men commit more fully than women do. The difference is that, while women have relationships with people, men have relationships with inanimate objects. […]
Happy 80th Birthday, Gloria Steinem
March 24, 2014
Gloria Steinem turns 80 tomorrow. Life in the Boomer Lane knows better than to assume that most people are aware of those people who have shaken up the world in ways that change us forever. So, for those of you who missed Gloria Steinem, here is a quick review: She was hot enough, as […]
Posted in: aging
The Rite of Spring Part 1
March 24, 2014
Life in the Boomer Lane knows very well that the advent of spring usually involves young women developing a sudden, overwhelming need to cast bras aside and older women developing an equally intense need to force all manner of flower and vegetable to sprout in every available bit of green space they own. LBL […]
Guerrilla Aging: When Where We Are Isn’t Where We Thought We’d Be
March 21, 2014
I had dinner with a friend/colleague a couple of days ago. She is sixty, and for decades was the devoted wife of a career military man. A registered nurse by training, she happily set aside her profession and assumed the role she felt was her highest calling. She raised her sons in wherever her husband’s […]
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