How to solve tip-of-the-tongue syndrome
You get to be a certain age, and chances are you’ve known the frustration of being unable to recall a familiar word. It’s right there on the tip of your tongue–and, in fact, that’s what […]
Author: Roxanne Jones
Roxanne Jones blogs at www.boomerhaiku.com, a mostly light-hearted, often irreverent look at life as a baby boomer, 17 syllables at a time. When she’s not tapping out haikus, she’s a freelance medical copywriter, enjoys chardonnay and contemplates plastic surgery to get rid of the wattle on her neck.
A guide to purging toxic people from your life
I hate to brag, but I lost more than 200 pounds in a week. Yup. I did it by cleaning out closets and purging possessions that didn’t “spark joy,” inspired by the KonMari Method outlined […]
The ultimate after-party: Putting fun in funerals
When we buried my mother’s ashes, my sister and I tucked a pack of cigarettes into the urn vault. Mom literally had been a diehard smoker—she died of complications from COPD—and we figured she’d be […]
The long and short of it: women and penises have a lot in common
Yeah, yeah, men and women are different. Just witness the current brouhaha in some states over separate bathrooms based on which body part you use to tinkle. But when you think about it, while there […]
5 reasons I think I may be an old fogey
I think I may have officially become an old fogey. Why? Because I find myself uttering, “What’s this world coming to?” with increasing frequency. I remember our parents saying that about the Beatles, hippies and […]
7 classes Adult Ed should offer boomers
Our local adult education organization offers a pretty diverse assortment of classes, some of which Hubs and I have taken. For example, together we learned how to roll our own sushi, he took yoga for […]
Drug ads are making me sick
If you watch TV, you know what I’m talking about: the relentless barrage of ads for prescription and over-the-counter medications to treat virtually every condition known to (wo)man. In fact, the Nielsen Company estimates there’s […]
Eek! It’s a joint mouse!
At midlife, sometimes I feel like a car that’s out of warranty – that point at which things inevitably start to go awry. You know – leaks, lubrication problems, excessive overheating, smoke from the tailpipe, […]
A la Sarah Palin, I’m making up some new words, too
When someone with as loose a grasp on the mother tongue as Sarah Palin creates words like “squirmish” and “refudiate,” I feel a hankerin’ to add to our vocabulary, too. It bein’ an election year […]
The truly inedible spam, served daily
If you’re a baby boomer, you first knew SPAM® as that slime-covered meat product in the blue can. Since Al Gore invented the Internet, however, we’ve become all too well acquainted with the truly inedible […]