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Easy Rules for Baking Success
August 6, 2010
LBL loves to bake. Pies. Cakes. Cookies. Clay pots. You name it, she will bake it. Along the way, she has noted several rules that are really important for a successful result: 1. Read a recipe first and see what ingredients you still need before starting to bake. This will avoid the following when you are […]
Go to Craft Fairs or Become A Lesbian
August 4, 2010
Elisabeth Hasselbeck thinks a lot of older lesbians would have turned out straight if they could only land a man. The co-host of “The View” said older women who have led heterosexual lives are choosing same-sex partners because men their age are chasing younger women. “All the older men are going for younger women, leaving […]
On Safari in My Vegetable Garden
August 3, 2010
I have never had any interest in planting anything in the ground, tending it, watching it grow, and then eating it. I assumed I was genetically unable to do so because for many generations in Eastern Europe, my family wasn’t permitted to own land, and so the farming genes were sort of erased. But I’ve […]
Why I Want to Live in the Sundance Catalog
July 29, 2010
Life in the Boomer Lane’s Sundance catalog arrived today. She is always so excited to see it, and it’s not because she wants to buy everything in it. It’s because she wants to live in the catalog. There are some really good reasons for this and even better reasons why this wouldn’t be such a […]
No returns. No exchanges. No dressing rooms.
July 27, 2010
Life in the Boomer Lane and her friend Susan, in a never-ending quest for adventure totally beneath the maturity level that they should aspire to, found a new, humongous “store” to go to in the DC area. This store is called “Unique,” and they name is apt. The store is housed in the airplane-hanger-like space […]
And She Spanx, too.
July 25, 2010
Life in the Boomer Lane bought a lovely dress to wear to First Son’s wedding last September. She had to wear Spanx with this dress. Most people know about Spanx. LBL knows about ithem because her former best friend Jean became a model, dumped her and now Spanx is Jean’s best friend. LBL also know […]
Just Beat Me With A Banana
July 16, 2010
Stop the presses. Ok, what Life n the Boomer Lane mean is if there were presses, she would stop them. She’s on a rant. CNN just came out with a story titled “Study: Body Shape Affects Memory in Older Women/Memory Loss More Pronounced in Women Who Carry Excess Weight Around Their Hips, A Study Says.” […]
The Missing Body Parts of Women Over 50
June 26, 2010
It occurred to Life in the Boomer Lane recently that she has fewer body parts than she used to have. Her tonsils have been gone since 1954. Since she has never understood what, exactly, tonsils are, she never missed them. And she also knows that after my generation, doctors seem to have decided that whatever […]
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Life in the Boomer Lane 
Being A Granddad Without Ever Having Been A Dad
August 18, 2010
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Now Husband and Life in the Boomer Lane married in 2006. NH lived in a high-rise condo in Washington DC. He was single, with no children and no pets. LBL lived in a house in Arlington, VA. She was divorced, after well over two decades of marriage, with three grown children and a cat. One […]