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Turning A Life-Threatening Emergency into Something Bad
April 11, 2013
by Life in the Boomer Lane
The other night, Life in the Boomer Lane came perilously close to joining her ancestors in the Big Shtetl in the Sky. The events were as follows: While having a conversation with her daughter, a virus and annoying cough she has been dealing with all week triggers a severe asthmatic reaction, resulting in LBL’s inability […]
Divorce After 50: A Guest Post by Alan Brady
April 9, 2013
by Life in the Boomer Lane
When I received an inquiry from someone named Alan Brady, about being a guest poster on my blog, I immediately flashed back to the character of Alan Brady on the Dick Van Dyke Show. That Alan Brady was pompous, had a lot of hairpieces and made a lot of bad decisions. He was a guy […]
Those Goddamn Doors
April 3, 2013
by Life in the Boomer Lane
If you have never experienced walking into a room and forgetting what you came there for, please stop reading immediately and go stand in a corner with all the other people this writer has no interest in communicating with. The rest of you, listen up: Science, taking a short break from predicting tsunamis, erupting volcanoes, […]
Posted in: aging, memory loss
My Mother. Myself? A guest post by Erica Hollinshead Stead
April 1, 2013
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Every once in a while, I am struck by the need to blur the lines between the generations of women. To remind myself that we are all, at heart, the products of other women whose reality differed in countless ways than ours. That we are all, at heart, traversing a terrain our mothers never knew, […]
Sex at 50+ : What’s Normal?
March 9, 2013
by Life in the Boomer Lane
In its March 2013 issue, AARP Magazine presents “Sex at 50+: What’s Normal?” in which they answer our burning curiosity about other people’s sex lives. A heads up (in a manner of speaking): If you routinely incorporate the Area 51 Love Doll, the Strict Leather Dildo Face Harness, or the Drilldo into your sexual repertoire, […]
Why Older Men Prefer Younger Women. Or Don’t.
March 5, 2013
by Life in the Boomer Lane
On January 7, 2011, I posted a piece titled “The Myth of Older Men Wanting Younger Women.” I said that, in spite of the common belief that all older men are chasing after younger women, my experience has been otherwise. The response was instant and strong. On both sides of the aisle. On February 28, […]
Boomer Grandparenting: Able to Leap Tall Continents at A Single Bound
February 28, 2013
by Life in the Boomer Lane
When my daughter and her husband of one year moved to London, I thought the worst had happened to me. Then, within a year, she was pregnant. The loss factor multiplied. Then my first grandson, Jonah, was born. Suddenly, the romantic notion I had always had of grandparents and grandchildren living in close […]
Posted in: baby boomers, boomers, family, grandchild, grandchildren, grandmotherhood, grandparents, reading, technology
The Perks of Online Dating After 50: A Guest Post from eHarmony Canada
February 27, 2013
by Life in the Boomer Lane
My Sex and the Sixty-Year-Old posts got the attention of eHarmony Canada, who requested equal time. I’m happy to give it because, in spite of what I write about Susan’s misadventures in the dating world, I believe that online dating works. I, along with countless other formerly single people, found love online. I’m also […]
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Getting Found by Getting Lost
April 25, 2013
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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Just in case Life in the Boomer Lane hasn’t mentioned it enough, her entire life has been impacted by her inability to get from point A to point B without the aid of a brain transplant. The history of her dysfunction has resulted in, among other things, 1. The dissolution of her first marriage 2. […]