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Electing What to do Now

November 12, 2024

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A lot of Life in the Boomer Lane’s friends have declared a break from all things political: The constant stream of 24/7 news in their homes has been silenced. Political conversation has stopped. All reference to our newly-elected Nero-in-Chief has ceased. Anger and depression reign, taking up residence with that part of their souls that […]

The Robin Hoods of Tik Tok

January 22, 2024

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In a world in which we learn to ignore others in order to protect ourselves, a handful of intrepid young people are making names for themselves by doing the exact opposite. They come from different backgrounds, different life experiences and different ways of doing things. They share two characteristics: They see people and choose not […]

Death vs Something Else

December 15, 2022

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Life in the Boomer Lane keeps promising herself that she will no longer write anything about Donald Trump. On the other hand, she also keeps promising herself that she will stop talking about aging, her allergies, and the documented fact that she is getting shorter. She has failed in all of these areas. She now […]

Khal Putin Banned From Netflix

March 19, 2014

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According to the Borowitz Report, in a brilliant bit of satiric wit, “In what was described as a major ramping up of sanctions, Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Tuesday that the United States had frozen Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Netflix account, effective immediately.”  Life in the Boomer Lane believes that the surprise move […]

Twitter, Justin Bieber, and Mr Cash Online

June 2, 2010

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Life in the Boomer Lane was intending to wait until I understood Twitter a bit more before writing anything about it. But she knows that, in the past, her lack of knowledge about any specific topic has never stopped her from writing about it, and she felt that, like Justin Bieber, Twitter fell into the […]