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When Mothers and Their Babies Both Wear Diapers
While Life in the Boomer Lane has been frittering away her time keeping track of international terrorism and the antics of several unnamed heads-of-state, she has failed to notice a growing trend that poses a distinct threat to all women worldwide: the exploding number of post-50 women who are choosing to give birth. AARP Magazine, […]
Sex, Lies, and Ensure: The Sexual Habits of the Over-55 Set
January 5, 2015
Anyone who has ever visited an assisted living facility or nursing home has probably come away with the impression that the #1 athletic pastime of residents consists of lining up at the dining hall doors, well before meal time is scheduled to begin. If so, you’d be wrong. Not only wrong, but seriously wrong. The […]
The Apps You Need Right Now
January 3, 2015
In an effort to better serve her non-paying clientele, Life in the Boomer Lane has made an exhaustive, as well as exhausting, survey of some of the 10 billion apps that are now available on smart phones, that enable people to live healthier, more stress-free lives. This research was done between the end of one […]
A Commitment to Ignore Good Advice in 2015
December 31, 2014
Life in the Boomer Lane has reached an age that allows her to look back at all the great advice she has gotten over the decades and respond with flagrant disregard, or at least with a bit of tweaking. These include: Act your age. LBL has been struggling with this one for decades, especially during […]
Guerrilla Aging: Advanced Style
November 22, 2014
Ari Seth Cohen is a stalker, of the finest kind. For some years, he has been following people on the streets of New York, and asking them if he can take their photos. His motives are simple: to find ordinary people of extraordinary style. Given that we are talking about New York, here, and […]
Love, Marriage, and Other Bad Stuff
November 17, 2014
Since 1990, the divorce rate for Americans over the age of 50 has doubled, and more-than-doubled for those over the age of 65. Over half of all grey divorces are to people in their first marriages, who have been married at least twenty years. This can either be interpreted as an attempt to avoid […]
Booty Pop
November 12, 2014
Celebs like Nicki Minaj, JLo, Beyonce and Kim Kardashian have given bodacious booties a big boost. Enter Booty Pop, a purveyor of padded panties. Booty Pop wants to be at the top of the bottom industry. Sales are up 47%, and customers are agitating for even more bountiful booty. Booty Pop hears them, and […]
Guerrilla Aging: Faith and Spirituality
October 24, 2014
In the deepest places of our being, we tend to look at meaning beyond ourselves. We may know that our life expectancy is a finite number of years, but this doesn’t answer why we were put on this earth to begin with. We may know that cellular deterioration will be how most of our […]
An Interview With 114-Year-Old Anna Stoehr
October 17, 2014
Life in the Boomer Lane’s father was often fond of saying “The first 100 years are the hardest.” Anna Stoehr of Minnesota proves him wrong. Stoehr, age 114, was forced to lie about her age in order to join Facebook. She was born in 1900, but Facebook doesn’t let new users choose a birth […]
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