Browsing All posts tagged under »boomers«

Selling Off My Children's Futures

July 10, 2010 by

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Many people fondly remember the warm and fuzzy events of their childhoods: the sight of presents under the Christmas tree, a trip to the zoo or to the beach or to the amusement park, the taste of a favorite food that only Mom could cook so well.  Life in the Boomer Lane’s children, on the […]

What Husbands Do When Wives Leave Town. Again.

July 5, 2010 by

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Life in the Boomer Lane went to Delaware for the weekend with Sex-and-the-Sixty-Year-Old Susan. She went there to do a book signing at Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach. Susan would be there to helped her. LBL made jokes about Now Husband habit of making some kind of major purchase without consulting with her every time […]

My GPS Has A Different Accent Than Yours

July 1, 2010 by

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Life in the Boomer Lane has a GPS in her car.  She got it because there is no GPS in her head.  There is not even a G.  There is nothing in whatever spot is supposed to hold some sense of direction.  She would like to think that space is taken up by impeccable taste.  […]

What Husbands Do When Wives Leave Town

June 30, 2010 by

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Life in the Boomer Lane’s children all live in remote places, like London and Seattle and Charleston. Sometimes LBL likes to visit them solo. It’s a different kind of bonding than if Now Husband were with her. And LBL’s friends Jean and Joyce are both on Anna Maria Island in Florida. That can be another […]

The Link Between Mattress Stuffing and Weight Loss

June 28, 2010 by

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Lunchtime While Life in the Boomer Lane was visiting Beloved Daughter and her family in London, Trish, a close friend of LBL’s daughter, told LBL about a “secret” diet plan, known only to French women. LBL likes to trade beauty secrets with Trish. On a past visit, she introduced LBL to the “Nude” line of […]

The Missing Body Parts of Women Over 50

June 26, 2010 by

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 It occurred to Life in the Boomer Lane recently that she has fewer body parts than she used to have. Her tonsils have been gone since 1954.  Since she has never understood what, exactly, tonsils are, she never missed them.  And she also knows that after my generation, doctors seem to have decided that whatever […]

Facebook for Boomers

June 25, 2010 by

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Beloved Daughter has asked that Life in the Boomer Lane write a post about boomers on Facebook.  LBL isn’t sure how she phrased it, but it might have been “Gee Mommy, since your generation, especially the Class of ’69 of which you were such an integral part, is so much more fascinating than mine could […]

Sixty isn’t the “New” Anything. Except sixty.

June 3, 2010 by

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Life in the Boomer Lane is venting. She is seriously so tired of hearing people say things like “Sixty is the new fifty.” Or forty. Or even thirty. This morning, on one of the talk shows, she caught about 30 seconds of the guest going on and on about how sixty-year olds should go mountain […]

Sixty isn't the "New" Anything. Except sixty.

June 3, 2010 by

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I’m venting. I’m seriously so tired of hearing people say things like “Sixty is the new fifty.” Or forty. Or even thirty. This morning, on one of the talk shows, I caught about 30 seconds of the guest going on and on about how sixty-year olds should go mountain climbing and have pajama parties and […]

Funny, you don’t look Haplogroup H

June 3, 2010 by

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For those of you with an understanding of science that can fit into a pine nut shell, you are like Life n the Boomer Lane. But, thanks to people who possess brain cells that LBL can only dream of, we now know that all modern humans started in the same exact spot in Africa. Approximately 50,000-60,000 […]