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Love, Marriage, and Other Bad Stuff
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 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 […]
The Jobs Report
November 5, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Huffington Post, in addition to its usual piece, bleating that sex over age 50 is the BEST SEX EVER, has an article about post-60-year-olds’ first jobs. This got Life in The Boomer Lane to stop thinking about election results, in order to free up enough brain cells to address herself to the topic of […]
Guerrilla Aging: Money Honey
October 31, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Money means more than dollars. It’s tied to our sense of success, to security, to power, to independence. It can be what allows us, or stops us, from fulfilling our dreams. And, for most women, it’s something we don’t give much thought to until we are confronted with a major life change. For those […]
The History of Halloween
October 29, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Halloween is the longest-running holiday ever in the history of the world, except for Take Your Pet to Work Day. Halloween culture can be traced back to the Druids, part of the Celtic culture. The Celts were a squirrelly lot. They had no central government, no big important person in charge of everyone, […]
Guerrilla Aging: Faith and Spirituality
October 24, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 […]
Guerrilla Aging: Friendship
October 3, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane was just visited for a couple days from two long time friends. Judy, since 9th grade. Susan, since 5th. The years of our lives have been filled with whatever fills years. We marvel each time we are together that we pick up exactly where we left off. We […]
Guerrilla Aging: Rational Women Repeating Irrational Patterns
September 26, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
From time immemorial, women have been the bearers and guardians of children. It’s easy to see that because of women’s roles, they had to develop traits of steadfastness, loyalty, and the desire to nurture and to protect. By having a male as part of the family unit, food and protection were often assured, and mothers could spend […]
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November 17, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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