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Browsing All posts tagged under »aging«
Naps: Good, Bad, or Something Else
March 8, 2018
It’s a fact of life that, many decades after small children stop taking daily naps, they again pick up the habit. While Life in the Boomer Lane has taken maybe a handful of naps in her entire adult life, Now Husband and many of LBL’s friends partake, most on a daily basis. She is sure […]
The New 90-Year-Old Face of Internet Dating
March 5, 2018
Life in the Boomer Lane firmly believes that there are two things that never age out, no matter how old we are. One is the dislike of going to the dentist. The other is the hunt for love. JDate, the largest internet dating company aimed at Jewish singles, has, like other online singles websites, gone […]
Taking the High Road
February 26, 2018
Life in the Boomer Lane no longer has any need to remember all of the fabulous, fun-filled adventures that she and Now Husband have partaken of. When he starts a sentence with “Remember when we went to…?” she cuts him off with the same question: “Did I have a good time?” All she is looking […]
The Lost, the Misplaced, and the Other Stuff
September 22, 2017
Life in the Boomer Lane, like a lot of red-blooded, tax-fearing Americans, spends her days losing a lot of stuff. Much of this is actually misplaced, rather than lost. There is a fine, but important, distinction between the two. Here is a handy chart to know the difference: The following are items that usually get […]
100,982,246 Minutes of Life
August 14, 2017
Last week, an article from the New York Times started making the rounds of all the social media sites. It detailed the relationship and subsequent marriage of two people who met at the gym, dated for eight years, and just got married. She graduated from Brooklyn College and received a master’s degree in biology from […]
Mighty Mouse and You
August 11, 2017
Those readers who are convinced that North Korean missiles are now, even as we speak, headed this way, have no need to continue reading this blog post. If you truly believe you have mere moments left, you certainly don’t want to spend them wallowing in Life in the Boomer Lane’s depleted mental universe. Please come up […]
March 19, 2018
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