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Being Chanukah in a Christmas World

December 8, 2010 by

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When I was little, I wanted Christmas.  I didn’t care that Chanukah was eight days long, since I only got one present. People never talked about Chanukah.  Everything out there in the world was Christmas, Christmas, Christmas.  The stores were all filled with trees and lights, Santas were on every corner ringing bells, my elementary […]

The Room You Never Want to Go Into

December 5, 2010 by

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Life in the Boomer Lane seriously hates beating dead horses.  And she doesn’t know why anyone would want to do that anyway, but apparently there must have been a time in the past when people actually did beat dead horses, or the phrase never would have come into existence. Did they do it or fun on […]

Boomer Sex Ain’t Boomin’

November 24, 2010 by

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An enlightening and thoroughly depressing new survey of sex among Boomers was conducted recently.  Now Husband and Life in the Boomer Lane unshackled themselves from the headboard  in their bedroom long enough to read it.  LBL will summarize for those of you who were fans of Cliff Notes back in school.  The first sentence says […]

Boomer Sex Ain't Boomin'

November 24, 2010 by

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An enlightening and thoroughly depressing new survey of sex among Boomers was conducted recently.  Now Husband Dan and I unshackled ourselves from the headboard  in our bedroom long enough to read it.  I’ll summarize for those of you who were fans of Cliff Notes back in school.  The first sentence says it all: The U.S. […]

Please don’t take my crappy cell phone away from me!

November 19, 2010 by

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Life in the Boomer Lane’s technological prowess stops somewhere between the invention of the wheel and that of the cotton gin.  Everything else, LBL puts under one of two categories: It’s magic and she likes it. It’s a curse on her existence and she wants it to go away. LBL’s enthusiasm for changing anything she has is […]

Please don't take my crappy cell phone away from me!

November 19, 2010 by

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My technological prowess stops somewhere between the invention of the wheel and that of the cotton gin.  Everything else, I put under one of two categories: It’s magic and I like it. It’s a curse on my existence and I want it to go away.  My enthusiasm for changing anything I have is comparable to […]

What I did then. What I wouldn't do now.

November 15, 2010 by

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Although I had no part of the free sex of the 60s, and only slightly more of the more-than-free-but-still cheap drugs of the era, I look back on some of the things I did back then and wonder how I survived.   I hitchhiked with my then best friend from Philly to Trenton, so that […]

What I did then. What I wouldn’t do now.

November 15, 2010 by

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Although I had no part of the free sex of the 60s, and only slightly more of the more-than-free-but-still cheap drugs of the era, I look back on some of the things I did back then and wonder how I survived.   I hitchhiked with my then best friend from Philly to Trenton, so that […]

Rallying to Restore Marital Sanity

November 2, 2010 by

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Life in the Boomer Lane and Now Husband’s friend Judy was coming with them to attend the Rally to Restore Sanity.  She was driving from New Jersey to their house on Friday evening.  The phone rang. LBL picked it up at that exact same second that NH came rushing into the room, yelling “There is something wrong with […]

Who Was That Creepy Guy Giving Out Candy?

November 1, 2010 by

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My Now Husband is sort of new to this Halloween thing, as well as to the Kid Thing in general.  Last year, NH wore a scary mask that brought all the little kids to tears.  This year, NH went to the door as himself (Only one child cried) and tried really hard to say bright, pleasant things to […]