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Turning A Life-Threatening Emergency into Something Bad
April 11, 2013
The other night, Life in the Boomer Lane came perilously close to joining her ancestors in the Big Shtetl in the Sky. The events were as follows: While having a conversation with her daughter, a virus and annoying cough she has been dealing with all week triggers a severe asthmatic reaction, resulting in LBL’s inability […]
Those Goddamn Doors
April 3, 2013
If you have never experienced walking into a room and forgetting what you came there for, please stop reading immediately and go stand in a corner with all the other people this writer has no interest in communicating with. The rest of you, listen up: Science, taking a short break from predicting tsunamis, erupting volcanoes, […]
Why Older Men Prefer Younger Women. Or Don’t.
March 5, 2013
On January 7, 2011, I posted a piece titled “The Myth of Older Men Wanting Younger Women.” I said that, in spite of the common belief that all older men are chasing after younger women, my experience has been otherwise. The response was instant and strong. On both sides of the aisle. On February 28, […]
Boomer Grandparenting: Able to Leap Tall Continents at A Single Bound
February 28, 2013
When my daughter and her husband of one year moved to London, I thought the worst had happened to me. Then, within a year, she was pregnant. The loss factor multiplied. Then my first grandson, Jonah, was born. Suddenly, the romantic notion I had always had of grandparents and grandchildren living in close […]
The Perks of Online Dating After 50: A Guest Post from eHarmony Canada
February 27, 2013
My Sex and the Sixty-Year-Old posts got the attention of eHarmony Canada, who requested equal time. I’m happy to give it because, in spite of what I write about Susan’s misadventures in the dating world, I believe that online dating works. I, along with countless other formerly single people, found love online. I’m also […]
The Wiggles:A Guest Post by Nancy Roman
February 22, 2013
Nancy is the author of a blog called, NotQuiteOld, which is sort of how everyone of a certain age feels because old is something that those “other” people are, not us. Old is like 20 years away. Always. Right? Right. But it’s that pesky “notquiteold” dimension that we exist in that keeps reminding us that we may be notquiteold, […]
Getting Found by Getting Lost
April 25, 2013
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Just in case I haven’t mentioned it enough, my entire life has been impacted by my inability to get from point A to point B without the aid of a brain transplant. The history of my dysfunction has resulted in, among other things, 1. The dissolution of my first marriage 2. Numerous neuroses, fears, anxieties, […]