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Tis the Season
Research released a couple of months ago has shown that well-adjusted people spend more on holiday shopping than non well-adjusted people. This research was funded by the group Citizens for More Liberal Use of Credit Cards. Life in the Boomer Lane was just pulling your leg. Maybe. The first sentence of the first paragraph was […]
The Brain in Love
December 18, 2017
The holidays are supposed to be about love: of family, of friends, of Jesus, of materialism, and, this year especially, of one’s love (and utter relief) of 2017 being finally put to bed. For this reason, Life in the Boomer Lane thought she’d take the opportunity to devote this post to love. It’s a win-win: She […]
My 10 Holiday Wishes for You
December 21, 2016
Dear Readers, May you find joy this year in the loving embrace of family and friends. Or, if not, watching a really good movie, with some really tasty popcorn in your mouth. May you appreciate all the wonder and bounty in your life. Or, if not, believe that wonder and bounty are seriously overrated. May […]
The New Dishwasher: Part 2
November 29, 2016
Having just barely survived a love and chaos-filled Thanksgiving, Life in the Boomer Lane has been experiencing the same kind of whiplash that Mitt Romney must be feeling right now. But, while Mitt is being forced to remain in the political purgatory mode, LBL can move on to other important issues in her life and […]
Pre-Thanksgiving: Joyful Mayhem Involving Large Appliances
November 23, 2016
Life in the Boomer Lane has just hosted her children and grandchildren in a pre-Thanksgiving research project to test the theory that a house can hold 5.5 times the number of people it was designed to hold, as long as they are all related to each other. Six adults and five children occupied a space normally […]
A Pre-Holiday Gift to Readers
October 3, 2016
It’s never too early to start gearing up for the holidays, especially nowadays when Halloween blurs into Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving blurs into Christmas and all of that blurs into the end of life when we realize that we have forgotten to put out the trash or hide embarrassing photos we have stashed away somewhere. Life […]
4 Crafts for the Holiday Season
July 18, 2016
Life in the Boomer Lane has discovered the perfect way to mentally bypass the anxiety-inducing current political season. Thanks to this guest post from Debra Lewis, LBL can zip right into thoughts of the holidays. Hopefully, the holidays will still be there by the time late fall arrives. Debbie Lewis is an aspiring writer, mother, […]
December 4, 2018
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