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Guerrilla Aging: It Starts With Owning Our Age
July 4, 2014
When we are very young, we want to be older. We want to run with the big boys. When we are teens, we want to look older, as well. We see the world of adulthood as intoxicating in its freedom of choice. Yet, when we actually do become adults and can appreciate the responsibility […]
Aunt Gert Goes into A Nursing Home
June 30, 2014
Today, Life in the Boomer Lane and Now Husband moved her Aunt Gert from an assisted living facility in Pennsylvania to a nursing home in Northern Virginia. She invites anyone who cares, to join her in being outraged that a perfectly lucid (albeit heavily medicated and emotionally fragile) human being is forced to go […]
Guerrilla Aging: The Next Twenty Years
May 30, 2014
I celebrated my 67th birthday this month, happy to be on this side of the dirt. Because of circumstances that occurred twenty years ago, the way I look at birthdays and aging has changed. One of my closest friends had just died of breast cancer. We were born in the same month in the […]
Guerrilla Aging: Lucky Seven
May 23, 2014
The following is a guest post from Carol Lostetter, the author of Just My Life. Seven years ago, Carol entered the mystical, overwhelming, […]
Guerrilla Aging: Guerrilla My Dreams
May 16, 2014
The following is a guest post from Janis, the author of the blog Retirementally Challenged. Today is her actual last day of work. On this most special occasion, she shares with us what it means to look back and to look forward. ***** As a young girl, I would often daydream about […]
Guerrilla Aging: Reinventing. Again.
May 2, 2014
The following is a guest post from Anna “Muddy River Muse” Schmidt. Anna, like so many of us at this age, has reinvented herself more than once. And she has discovered, as so many of us have, that it is the questions that often move us forward, rather than the answers. ***** I was offered the […]
Guerrilla Aging: The Serious Signs of Aging (sort of) by Kate Crimmins
April 25, 2014
The following is a guest post from Kate Crimmins, whose blog is Views and Mews by Coffee Kat. The subtitle of Kate’s blog is Kate’s Views on Life Edited by Four Opinionated Cats. Kate is lucky, indeed, that the cats have such strong editing skills. ***** “I don’t feel any different than […]
LBL Improves Her Brain
April 23, 2014
Lumosity is an online brain training and neuroscience research company that offers a brain training program consisting of more than 40 games in the areas of memory, attention, flexibility, speed of processing, and problem solving. Life in the Boomer Lane has several friends who subscribe to their service and all speak highly of it. LBL decided to look into it. LBL […]
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Guerrilla Aging: Physical Surprises
July 11, 2014
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After all the years we have spent looking into mirrors, why is it that we didn’t have a clue what was going to happen to our bodies after age fifty? We received advance warning about the effects of both puberty and childbirth, but nobody mentioned the changes that begin slowly around forty-five, then pick up […]