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Does Physical Attractiveness Make A Happy Marriage?
December 30, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
If you are happy in your marriage and have absolutely no idea why, just keep doing whatever you are doing and limit your questions to “What would you like for dinner, dear?/What’s for dinner, dear?” But, if you want an answer, you might benefit from reading the following: The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology […]
How Boomers Saved Everything
December 28, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
While few would argue that boomers discovered fire and invented the wheel and the baby cage, AARP Magazine has a whole new crop of boomer achievements to present in its current issue. In fact, AARP will be devoting an entire year to slobbering over what we boomers have achieved. The first piece is by PJ […]
My New Year’s Resolutions
December 26, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
If you are getting excited about the prospect of making your list of New Years resolutions,and your list has been basically the same since 1967, you may want to take a gander at the following. The ten top New Year’s resolutions are: 1. Lose Weight and Get Fit 2. Quit Smoking 3. Learn Something New […]
Plane Speaking
December 11, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane, having just returned from Florida, came back to disturbing accounts of the invasion of a new breed of cold weather-loving cockroach in New York, a 28% rise in Amazon forest deforestation, and US 15-year-olds receiving a C grade in reading and a below average grade in math (overall, slotted […]
This is My 500th Blog Post
December 1, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
There’s a great book by Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Harold, a sixty-something retired man, leaves his house in England one day with no other intention than to mail a letter to a former co-worker who is dying of cancer in a hospice at the northern end of the country. Harold passes […]
Why Boomers Need TV Commercials
November 30, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
According to Forbes, Apple TV is working on a plan to pay cable companies to allow viewers to opt out of watching commercials. As a boomer, Life in the Boomer Lane will not know which medications she should be asking her doctor to give her. Worse, she won’t know about all the life-threatening side effects […]
The Vamoose Party
November 28, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Those of you who enjoy reading about fun travel and adventure have, no doubt, heard of the antics of the Donner Party, a California Trail wagon train of eighty-one American pioneers who in 1846 found themselves trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada. Thirty-six members of the party perished as a result of starvation, exposure, […]
The Model and the Boomer
November 20, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
It has come to Life in the Boomer Lane’s attention that if she doesn’t write about boomers soon, she might as well change her blog to Life in the General Doo-Doo Lane. To avoid this, she has returned to Boomerdom. Here goes: LBL loves shopping at Loehmanns. Aside from the discounts, it’s a store that […]
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January 4, 2014 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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