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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 […]
Cats Flying Off the Roof of My Car
December 23, 2011
(The following is the eighth in my 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.) Miracle is the latest in a long […]
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 […]
A Life Before Dying
December 19, 2011
A lot of us spend a lot of time thinking about life in general, and/or about our lives in particular. Some of us never think about these things at all because we are in our lives, up to our eyeballs in the nonsense or the wonder or the frustration of what bombards us day in […]
My Friend Bill
December 16, 2011
(The following is the seventh 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 slow weekend.) This month, Now Husband and LBL lost […]
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Top iPhone Apps for Post-50s Folks
January 2, 2012
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Thanks to Huff/Post, we post-50s can stay up on the latest apps to make our lives worth living: The “It’s Done” app allows you to look back confidently that you did, indeed, take that vitamin or medication, turn off the oven, or write to the newspaper with unique ways to solve the budget deficit. There […]