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Middle Age vs The Middle Ages
February 22, 2012 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Many people nowadays confuse being middle aged with being in the Middle Ages. They can be forgiven for a certain amount of confusion, since neither group of people had births recorded on iPhones and immediately posted on social media networks around the planet. Neither group grew up with Tickle Me Elmo and Teenage Mutant Ninja […]
Living in An Upside Down World
February 17, 2012 by Life in the Boomer Lane
(The following is this week’s entry in my Friday 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 slow weekend, blogging-wise). Thanks to the good folks who spend their time […]
The Day After Hate
February 15, 2012 by Life in the Boomer Lane
I’m forgoing my intended post for today, in which I was to reveal the true meaning of life, the results of the upcoming presidential election, and what is the best source for do-it-yourself dentistry. Instead, I’m going to share with you some of the blogs I discovered when I was perusing the tsunami of comments […]
A Valentine for Someone I Hate
February 13, 2012 by Life in the Boomer Lane
To the person who spelled my middle name incorrectly on my birth certificate: I applaud you for your creative license. You took a strange spelling and turned it into an even stranger spelling. You recognized that although I was merely minutes old, I strove to be unique. To my first grade teacher who looked at […]
Dating After 50: Revealing Secrets. Or not.
February 9, 2012 by Life in the Boomer Lane
An overwhelming number of people who choose to enter the dating world after age 50 have already lived at least 50 years. And, if they are like most people over 50 (and many people under,) some of their early choices in life, while not resulting in life in a maximum security prison, may have still […]
Mabel, Down the Road
February 6, 2012 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Mabel is the mother of a close friend of ours. Our friend, Bill, her son, died 18 months ago. Mabel was born in 1915, which, for those of you who are mathematically challenged and can’t work the little adding machine on your computers, means that Mabel is 97 years old. She lives in a big […]
Downton Abbey: Open for Monkey Business
February 2, 2012 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Downton Abbey, now in its second season, is the latest crazy-popular PBS fare. Set in Edwardian England, it was created to bring Americans to the realization that we are a nation of slovenly, ill-speaking, processed food-eating, and reality TV-viewing dunderheads. But it’s important to get some things straight right off the bat. No matter how […]
How to Be An 80-Year-Old Pole Dancer
February 1, 2012 by Life in the Boomer Lane
For those Boomers who are contemplating spending their retirement years as monthly Diamond Plus cruisers, take note: You might soon be the only people onboard the cruise ship. In a survey of 1500 middle class Americans, Harris Interactive found that 25% say they will “need to work until at least age 80” to live comfortably […]
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The 15 Minute Dog
February 24, 2012 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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(The following is part of my Friday 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 slow weekend.) A lot of people, consisting entirely of my daughter and my […]