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The Hospital Stay
Life in the Boomer Lane has a close friend who picks atypical places for her normal life events. She fell in love with someone who was living in her basement, then married him in the winner’s circle at Monmouth racetrack. Not to be outdone by these diversions from the norm, she has just […]
Replacing A Baby With A Burrito
January 8, 2017 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane is in Charleston, where Youngest Child and Daughter-in-Law have just produced their first child, after a mere 36-hour labor. DIL is a yoga and natural food devotee and so was the perfect subject for the doula’s attempt to place her body in more positions than are contained in the […]
Putin on the Ritz
December 30, 2016 by Life in the Boomer Lane
The Obama Administration (yes, it still exists), after weighing all evidence presented by the CIA and other government-investigative agencies, has imposed sanctions on Russia for hacking into the DNC website. Thirty-five Russian diplomats have been expelled, and two facilities used for intelligence-gathering have been closed. One of these facilities is a so-called dacha on […]
How to Appreciate 2016
December 28, 2016 by Life in the Boomer Lane
For those of you who look back and see 2016 as a year that felt like a trip through a scary haunted house in which, after you have narrowly avoided death at every turn, the monster waits until you are just outside and then, when you think you are home free, he catches up with […]
My 10 Holiday Wishes for You
December 21, 2016 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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 […]
Time is Not on Your Side
November 14, 2016 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Contrary to claims touted by most products in the vitamin store, it turns out that human beings really do have a maximum lifespan. Researcher Jan Vijg of Einstein College of Medicine in New York has presented compelling proof for this Monday morning downer. For those of you older boomers who just had to mentally […]
The Singles Scene, 200000 BC
October 24, 2016 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Modern humans believe they created the singles scene. But, as one of our esteemed presidential candidates would say, “Wrong.” The existence of the human papillomavirus, also known as HPV, is proof positive that the unmated were mixing it up well before the advent of singles bars and Match.com. Thanks to Vox, we now know […]
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January 18, 2017 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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