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The Real Key to Improving Brain Function is to Grab a Swimsuit and Then Toss it Aside
July 28, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
An alert reader has directed Life in the Boomer Lane to information that will allow her to immediately stop doing what she doesn’t do anyway. But now she doesn’t have to feel guilty about not doing it. Nicholas Spitzer, professor or neuroscience at the University of California and editor-in-chief of brainfacts.org, has a message for […]
Guerrilla Aging: Physical Surprises
July 11, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 […]
Guerrilla Aging: It Starts With Owning Our Age
July 4, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 […]
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Guerrilla Aging: Is There Life After Retirement?
August 8, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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There is almost as much written about retirement as there is about menopause. Before we start packing in order to head for the “best places to retire,” we get to wrap our heads around retirement in general. The following is a guest post by Deborah Drucker, the author of the new blog, Notes Tied on […]