Browsing All posts tagged under »marriage«

I did. I didn’t. I do:Boomers and Remarriage

February 14, 2011

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Statistics on US divorce rates vary wildly, from under 35% to over 125%, depending on which source you look at and how annoyed you are with your spouse at the moment.  But, no matter how you slice it, Baby Boomers are getting divorced at a higher rate than their parents’ generation.  One source quotes the […]

Dr Zhivago was a Mere Innocent

February 1, 2011

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I checked weather.com last night and saw the following blaring headlines: “Impending storm will cover half of the country!  Storm will break all records!  100 million people will be impacted by this violent, destructive storm!”  This morning was no better: “Historic blizzard and ice storm underway at this exact moment in the Midwest!”  I turned […]

The Myth of Older Men Wanting Younger Women

January 7, 2011

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Ooooh, provocative blog title.  Life in the Boomer Lane can hear the heavy breathing of people lining up on either side of this debate that is so incendiary it will make you forget about bedbugs and J-Woww’s nude photo scandal.  So here goes: LBL has an ongoing disagreement with her friend Jean.  She insists that all […]

Finding My Future in A Trashcan

January 1, 2011

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One of the great ah-ha moments of LBL’s life began with the sight of small pieces of a photo in the trash can in the driveway of her marital residence.  At first, what LBL was looking at made no sense to her.  LBL recognized the photo, one taken by Now Husband, of her on a […]

Rallying to Restore Marital Sanity

November 2, 2010

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Life in the Boomer Lane and Now Husband’s friend Judy was coming with them to attend the Rally to Restore Sanity.  She was driving from New Jersey to their house on Friday evening.  The phone rang. LBL picked it up at that exact same second that NH came rushing into the room, yelling “There is something wrong with […]

Six-Word Memoirs

October 21, 2010

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The current issue of AARP Magazine has a short piece titled “Six-Word Memoirs.”  Many people have submitted theirs online.  My favorite was “Located my childhood sweetheart. Shouldn’t have.” So, here are some six word memoirs of my life: A mistake, telling Steve Jacobs “No.” Can I do eighth grade again? Three children. Two husbands. No […]

Wretched Technology Update

September 13, 2010

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Well, here we are, happily sailing through the 21st century and I am still doing battle with post-Industrial Revolution technology.  I wrote a post about this in reference to my husband going out of town and leaving me at the mercy of three remotes and other assorted bits and pieces of technology, all waiting for […]

When Good Technology Happens to Inept People

September 2, 2010

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LBL’s Now Husband is in Greece and Turkey for a month.  Family in Turkey, good friends on Rhodes in Greece.  Since NH is, among other things, LBL’s Go To Guy for technology, LBL was a bit apprehensive at the thought of his being gone for so long.  LBL knows her track record, and it isn’t pretty.  LBL fully prepared […]

What’s in your trunk?

September 1, 2010

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There was a short segment on NPR the other day, in which people were asked, “What’s in your trunk?”  Of course, some of the answers were very funny.  But as Life in the Boomer Lane was listening, she realized that she had no idea what was in her trunk.  LBL only knew that being married […]

What’s in your trunk?

September 1, 2010

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There was a short segment on NPR the other day, in which people were asked, “What’s in your trunk?”  Of course, some of the answers were very funny.  But as Life in the Boomer Lane was listening, she realized that she had no idea what was in her trunk.  LBL only knew that being married […]