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LBL Improves Her Brain
Lumosity is an online brain training and neuroscience research company that offers a brain training program consisting of more than 40 games in the areas of memory, attention, flexibility, speed of processing, and problem solving. Life in the Boomer Lane has several friends who subscribe to their service and all speak highly of it. LBL decided to look into it. LBL […]
Things I Don’t Understand
April 21, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
There are a lot of things Life in the Boomer Lane doesn’t understand anymore, and she fears she is running out of time to make any sense of them. 1. She doesn’t understand why, when she flies (on a plane, mostly), TSA officials are always staring her down, ordering her to get into (or […]
Guerrilla Aging: Finding That Happy Medium
April 19, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
The following is a guest post by Rebecca Latson. Photographers usually turn their lenses onto others. Now, Rebecca summons up her courage to turn her lens onto herself. You can visit Rebecca at Rebecca Latson Photography and rebeccalatsonphotography@gmail.com. […]
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QVC Solves Global Warming
April 16, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
In 1690, the Massachusetts Bay Colony issued the first paper money in the colonies which would later become the United States. In 1691, QVC (Quality and Value for the Colonies) was created as a way for people to spend the new money they had. Today, QVC (in 1986, the C was changed to stand for […]
How to Look Beautiful, Dead or Alive
April 13, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Throw out every single beauty product you have. Jill Kargman, the daughter of the former chairman of Chanel (BIG money, access to all of the best beauty secrets on the planet) has revealed in the New York Times every single beauty procedure and beauty product she uses. Let’s skip over the fact […]
Guerrilla Aging: Becoming A Reinventionista
April 10, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
The following is a guest post from Sherman Bedford. She usually writes poetry, and I am grateful that she has taken a departure from that to write the following. Her blog is in process. ***** My life is nothing like I ever imagined it would be. A year ago I almost died, but I […]
The History of Memory Techniques From 500 BC-2014 AD
April 8, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 […]
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90 is the New, uh, 90
April 1, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 […]
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April 23, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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