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The Missing Body Parts of Women Over 50
December 30, 2011
(The following is the ninth in Life in the Boomer Lane’s new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a really slow weekend, blogging-wise.) LBL’s tonsils have been gone […]
Video Chat Me Up
December 28, 2011
An astute fan of mine, sometimes called Sande, other times called my son-in-law’s dad, alerted me to a piece in the NY Times about how family traditions have gone the way of everything else: into some virtual alternate universe world in which things just magically appear that look real but are probably figments of my […]
Take my knee. Please.
December 22, 2011
NBC News yesterday evening came out with a breaking (No pun intended. But I wouldn’t believe that last sentence, if I were you.) story about the upsurge in hip and knee replacements among boomers. Boomers have long felt that they were only as old as they believed themselves to be. For this reason, they consider […]
Oops, She Did it Again
December 21, 2011
OK, so I’m supposed to be a humor writer (in my mind, of course). And I write the nonsense that’s in my head, which folks think is funny and I think is amazing that they think it’s funny because it’s just the stuff that always pops into my head, unbidden, anyway. I don’t ever sit […]
7 Quick Steps to Better Sex
December 15, 2011
AARP has come out with a guide to “7 Quick Steps to Better Sex.” This is important for two reasons. One is that the steps are “quick.” If they weren’t, we might get caught in mid-air, forgetting why the chandelier is at eye level and why there is a naked person lying on the bed […]
The Aging Brain
December 8, 2011
In its current Health & Science section, The Washington Post addresses itself to a topic that a lot of people over the age of 50 think about daily, when they aren’t trying to remember why they are standing naked in the garage, holding a spatula. “The Aging Brain” tells us that, contrary to what scientists […]
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My Annual Letter of Commitment With Myself
January 3, 2012
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Caution: The following is a serious post. For those followers of my blog who prefer humor, read no further. Just hold your breath and a new post will magically appear tomorrow which will make me sink to new lows as a human being and will make your life worth living again. ***** Many years […]