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The U-bend of Life
January 14, 2011 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Last month, the cover of the Economist Magazine shrieked “The Joy of Growing Old (or why life begins at 46).” Needless to say, this caught Life in the Boomer Lane’s eye, while she was in the drugstore looking for nighttime panty liners. She bought the magazine, in spite of the actual article being titled “The U-Bend […]
A Dialog With My 13 Year Old Self
January 11, 2011 by Life in the Boomer Lane
So, 13, yesterday I was throwing out some stuff in the attic and I found the diary you kept 50 years ago. I’m a little bit appalled confused about some of the things in there. Listen 63, I’m not stupid. I saw you wanted to use the word “appalled.” And that diary had a lock […]
Happy 2011, via 1960 and 1963 and 1975 and…
December 30, 2010 by Life in the Boomer Lane
When my ex and I split almost 20 years ago, the only items of real value to me that I wanted to take were the photos, the children’s memorabilia, my own memorabilia, and my artwork. Along the way, some of these items disappeared. Others were forgotten. A couple months ago, my ex and his wife […]
For me, The Day is The Day After.
December 25, 2010 by Life in the Boomer Lane
It’s Christmas morning. Life in the Boomer Lane’s three children, their two spouses (No, two of her children don’t share a spouse. Her younger son’s girlfriend is with her family in Myrtle Beach, SC) and her grandson and two dogs are at her ex’s house. There, they, like every other person in the world except LBL, […]
I Will Not Be Invisible
December 19, 2010 by Life in the Boomer Lane
When Life in he Boomer Lane and her friends decided to write a book about women over 50, LBL asked a lot of women her age what sucked about getting older. She expected to hear the sagging/bagging/dragging thing or maybe the memory thing or maybe even the empty nest thing. She didn’t hear any of that. […]
Are you acting your age?
December 15, 2010 by Life in the Boomer Lane
The Washington Post printed a test titled, “Are you acting your age?” Here is some of it: Test 1: For one minute, count how many words you can say beginning with the letter “F.” Follow that with “A” then with “S.” Add them up. No pronouns, no repeats, no variations on the same word. People ages […]
Jobs I Have Known
December 10, 2010 by Life in the Boomer Lane
My December 7 post (“Working Hard at Not Making Money”) reminded me of all the jobs I’ve had over the years: Summer camp counselor assistant-My first job and the only one I was ever fired from. This wasn’t a good start to my future employment. For a large sum of unmarked bills sent to […]
The Room You Never Want to Go Into
December 5, 2010 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 Life in the Boomer Lane
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 […]
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There she is, Miss America…
January 15, 2011 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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This evening, the Miss America Pageant is prepared to stomp dance on our faces once again, with its laminated toothy smiles and stiletto heels. Oh whoops, am I being too hard on this tattered piece of Americana? You bet. I grew up with Miss America, and I have watched her slide from pure goodness and […]