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The Best Country in the World is…
August 25, 2010
Those were the words on the cover of this week’s Newsweek. The actual article was titled “The Best Countries in the World.” Newsweek rated the countries that, if you were born today, would provide you with “the very best opportunity to live a healthy, safe, reasonably prosperous, and upwardly mobile life.” This was followed by […]
Raising A Family On Bibimbap and Corrective Shoes
August 12, 2010
In 1977, Then Husband and LBL moved to a neighborhood called Lyon Village, putting them within a couple blocks of Clarendon, the commercial area that bordered the neighborhood. Clarendon was a pretty exciting place back then, if you enjoyed looking at the site of a vacant 5 and 10 cent store, or if you needed […]
Easy Rules for Baking Success
August 6, 2010
LBL loves to bake. Pies. Cakes. Cookies. Clay pots. You name it, she will bake it. Along the way, she has noted several rules that are really important for a successful result: 1. Read a recipe first and see what ingredients you still need before starting to bake. This will avoid the following when you are […]
CSI: Arlington, VA
August 5, 2010
Life in the Boomer Lane sometimes wonders what Miracle the Cat does at night. LBL knows that she patrols the property and that she (LBL) will very, very occasionally be greeted in the morning by a dead baby mouse on her welcome mat (Now Husband husband shrieks each time that they must immediately get rid […]
Go to Craft Fairs or Become A Lesbian
August 4, 2010
Elisabeth Hasselbeck thinks a lot of older lesbians would have turned out straight if they could only land a man. The co-host of “The View” said older women who have led heterosexual lives are choosing same-sex partners because men their age are chasing younger women. “All the older men are going for younger women, leaving […]
On Safari in My Vegetable Garden
August 3, 2010
I have never had any interest in planting anything in the ground, tending it, watching it grow, and then eating it. I assumed I was genetically unable to do so because for many generations in Eastern Europe, my family wasn’t permitted to own land, and so the farming genes were sort of erased. But I’ve […]
The Girl Who Strayed With Buyers
August 2, 2010
If you’ve been in the real estate business as long as I have, you’ve probably accumulated a lot of fun experiences that, in retrospect, could have been used successfully in POW camps. I’ve locked myself out of houses, and once, another agent and I had to climb in through a high window to get in. […]
Why I Want to Live in the Sundance Catalog
July 29, 2010
Life in the Boomer Lane’s Sundance catalog arrived today. She is always so excited to see it, and it’s not because she wants to buy everything in it. It’s because she wants to live in the catalog. There are some really good reasons for this and even better reasons why this wouldn’t be such a […]
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There's Nothing Funny About Carpeting
August 31, 2010
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Life in the Boomer Lane’s real estate manager suggested yesterday that she should write about the wall-to-wall carpeting currently being installed in the office. Wall-to-wall carpeting? Instead, how about my writing about flossing? Or socks? Or grocery coupons? Any of those topics would be more compelling than wall-to-wall carpeting. To make matters worse, the carpeting […]