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How Your Brain Works. Or Doesn’t.
January 25, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
National Geographic, in its February 2014 issue cover story, “The New Science of the Brain,” dares to go where no mortal has gone before, inside the human brain. Science has, until now, known relatively little about the brain. We know what the brain can do, but we often don’t know how it does what […]
Lung Leavin’ Day
January 23, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
One of the gifts I’ve received from blogging is that, while I am writing about the world, the world will occasionally pop its face into mine. Each time this happens, I am humbled and honored to be able to look into the very private places in people’s lives. The latest is a letter I received […]
Sleepless Out of Seattle
January 21, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane, in an effort to travel as inexpensively as possible, always flies coach, never purchases direct flights and leaves at ungodly times of the day. Because her flight from Seattle to Chicago yesterday was at 6AM, and because she had spent the evening before watching the Seattle Seahawks obliterate the […]
Justin Bieber: Not-So-Great Eggspectations
January 17, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
The past week, Life in the Boomer Lane has been in Seattle, visiting family and taking care of her granddaughter, who, a mere 15 months ago, had just achieved fertilized egg status. Because of the focus needed to deal with a six-month-old baby, LBL almost completely missed hearing about another individual who very recently was, […]
Love is Never Having to Say You’re Siri
January 10, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane will not be writing about either Chris Christie or Dennis Rodman today. She has decided to give them a break, as both seem to be having a tough time this week. She feels certain that Christie will eventually move on from the embarrassment his staff has created, in causing a […]
LBL Attends A Political Presentation
January 6, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane attended a presentation yesterday evening, given by a candidate running for county board. She did this because Now Husband is out-of-town and Downton Abbey didn’t start until 9PM and so she would be home on time. She also believed there existed a slight possibility that she might have understood enough […]
Does Physical Attractiveness Make A Happy Marriage?
December 30, 2013
by Life in the Boomer Lane
If you are happy in your marriage and have absolutely no idea why, just keep doing whatever you are doing and limit your questions to “What would you like for dinner, dear?/What’s for dinner, dear?” But, if you want an answer, you might benefit from reading the following: The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology […]
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Facebook Identified As A Form of Flesh-Eating Bacteria
January 27, 2014
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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In a shocking announcement sending the industry into a tailspin, two researchers at Princeton have predicted the demise of Facebook within three years, using an epidemiological model. (For those of you who have no idea what the word “epidemiological” means, just keep reading. The only thing that matters is that you leave a positive comment […]