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Enough is Enough: Why I Had to Retire, a Guest Post by Terri Webster Schrandt
Terri Webster Schrandt worked in the public parks and recreation field for 35 years. She was a recreation and leisure practitioner for a large city in Northern California. She retired in late December 2014. She continues to teach as a part-time lecturer in the Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration department of a large Northern California university. Her second […]
Guerrilla Aging: Joint Mice and Other Midlife Maladies, A Guest Post by Boomer Haiku
January 30, 2015
Roxanne Jones blogs at boomerhaiku.com, a mostly light-hearted, often irreverent look at life as a boomer, 17 syllables at a time. When she’s not tapping out haikus, she’s a freelance medical copywriter, enjoys chardonnay and contemplates plastic surgery to get rid of the wattle on her neck. […]
Guerrilla Aging: My One Night Stand With A Personal Trainer
January 23, 2015
Malia Lindquist, author of Rocky Mountain Miamian, is a blogger, recovering attorney and mom to two semi-adult daughters. A committed dabbler and traveler, she mostly splits her time between Boulder, Colorado and Miami, Florida, which perfectly reflects the split in her personality. She can be reached atLindquistLaw@gmail.com. […]
Guerrilla Aging: Nourishment Comes in Many Forms
January 16, 2015
I’ve just returned from five days in Florida, visiting two dear friends, Joyce and Jean. These women were also my co-authors for the two books we wrote about life after 50. For that reason, our journey of friendship has been life-altering. I brought with me another friend, Judy, who came with me to visit several […]
Guerrilla Aging: Advanced Style
November 22, 2014
Ari Seth Cohen is a stalker, of the finest kind. For some years, he has been following people on the streets of New York, and asking them if he can take their photos. His motives are simple: to find ordinary people of extraordinary style. Given that we are talking about New York, here, and […]
Guerrilla Aging: Money Honey
October 31, 2014
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 […]
Guerrilla Aging: Faith and Spirituality
October 24, 2014
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
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
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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Life in the Boomer Lane 
February 21, 2015
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