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A Life Before Dying
A lot of us spend a lot of time thinking about life in general, and/or about our lives in particular. Some of us never think about these things at all because we are in our lives, up to our eyeballs in the nonsense or the wonder or the frustration of what bombards us day in […]
My Friend Bill
December 16, 2011
by Life in the Boomer Lane
(The following is the seventh in Life in the Boomer Lane’s new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a slow weekend.) This month, Now Husband and LBL lost […]
7 Quick Steps to Better Sex
December 15, 2011
by Life in the Boomer Lane
AARP has come out with a guide to “7 Quick Steps to Better Sex.” This is important for two reasons. One is that the steps are “quick.” If they weren’t, we might get caught in mid-air, forgetting why the chandelier is at eye level and why there is a naked person lying on the bed […]
Posted in: AARP, aging, baby boomers, boomer humor, boomers, commentary, humor, men over 50, midlife, research, satire, sex, women over 50
Easy Rules for Baking Success
December 10, 2011
by Life in the Boomer Lane
(The following is the sixth in my new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a slow weekend.) It’s that time of year, again, when we discover that the flour […]
The Aging Brain
December 8, 2011
by Life in the Boomer Lane
In its current Health & Science section, The Washington Post addresses itself to a topic that a lot of people over the age of 50 think about daily, when they aren’t trying to remember why they are standing naked in the garage, holding a spatula. “The Aging Brain” tells us that, contrary to what scientists […]
Good News for Seniors: It’s Getting Easier to Get A Date
December 6, 2011
by Life in the Boomer Lane
ABC Evening News featured that startling revelation last week. The latest U.S. Census Bureau accounting of older Americans has revealed that the senior population is not only larger than ever before, at 40.3 million, it also includes a larger proportion of men, given their increasing life expectancy. In 1990 there were only 82.7 men for […]
Posted in: aging, boomer humor, boomers, dating after 50, dating at midlife, dating over 50, humor, internet dating, research, satire, women over 50
A Life Strung Together, Bead by Bead
December 5, 2011
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Her name is Debra Monaco and she is 38 years old. Until June 18 of this year, her life was full. She had an eleven year old daughter. She had a fiance who she loved. They lived in his recently deceased father’s house in Alexandria, VA. She worked at Rite Aid and was about a […]
Posted in: courage, ordinary lives
Ur-ine Control
December 1, 2011
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Many people, especially older boomers, often wonder why technology is important. They mostly wonder this at the exact time they are using technology. At other times, they pretend technology doesn’t exist. But pretending technology doesn’t exist is dangerous. Imagine a massive, rabid bear (technology) beating your front door down (your actual front door), clawing your […]
Medicare: Uncovered
November 29, 2011
by Life in the Boomer Lane
Medicare, the federal system of health care for folks over age 65, comes at a really bad time in our lives, since at the exact moment it arrives, all available brain cells are either busy looking for car keys, permanently asleep on the job, or wondering if we have just baked the cooking shears into […]
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Life in the Boomer Lane 
December 19, 2011
by Life in the Boomer Lane
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