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Insomnia: Doing It All Night Long
Life in the Boomer Lane, like others in her post-menopausal peer group, has added countless hours to her day, all of them in the middle of the night. These hours are available for a wide breadth of information-gathering, such as keeping track of the national economy, reviewing the latest research on aging, getting smart about […]
10 Surprises Your Body Has in Store for You, Post-50
January 30, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
An alert reader has sent Life in the Boomer Lane an article from purpleclover.com titled “17 Surprises Your Body Has in Store for You Post 50.” By the time LBL was finished reading the title, she had come up with over 30 items of her own. But she will now address herself to the items […]
How to Give A Cat A Pill
January 29, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane hasn’t written lately about Miracle the Cat, primarily because, until recently, she has remained fairly loyal to a life of eating, sleeping, eliminating, and repeating the aforementioned items. Aside from having an uncanny ability to place her tail in places where it has a better than 50/50 chance of being […]
Facebook Identified As A Form of Flesh-Eating Bacteria
January 27, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
In a shocking announcement sending the industry into a tailspin, two researchers at Princeton have predicted the demise of Facebook within three years, using an epidemiological model. (For those of you who have no idea what the word “epidemiological” means, just keep reading. The only thing that matters is that you leave a positive comment […]
How Your Brain Works. Or Doesn’t.
January 25, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
National Geographic, in its February 2014 issue cover story, “The New Science of the Brain,” dares to go where no mortal has gone before, inside the human brain. Science has, until now, known relatively little about the brain. We know what the brain can do, but we often don’t know how it does what […]
Sleepless Out of Seattle
January 21, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane, in an effort to travel as inexpensively as possible, always flies coach, never purchases direct flights and leaves at ungodly times of the day. Because her flight from Seattle to Chicago yesterday was at 6AM, and because she had spent the evening before watching the Seattle Seahawks obliterate the […]
Justin Bieber: Not-So-Great Eggspectations
January 17, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
The past week, Life in the Boomer Lane has been in Seattle, visiting family and taking care of her granddaughter, who, a mere 15 months ago, had just achieved fertilized egg status. Because of the focus needed to deal with a six-month-old baby, LBL almost completely missed hearing about another individual who very recently was, […]
Love is Never Having to Say You’re Siri
January 10, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane will not be writing about either Chris Christie or Dennis Rodman today. She has decided to give them a break, as both seem to be having a tough time this week. She feels certain that Christie will eventually move on from the embarrassment his staff has created, in causing a […]
LBL Attends A Political Presentation
January 6, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane attended a presentation yesterday evening, given by a candidate running for county board. She did this because Now Husband is out-of-town and Downton Abbey didn’t start until 9PM and so she would be home on time. She also believed there existed a slight possibility that she might have understood enough […]
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