Christmas carols for baby boomers

‘Tis the season of Christmas-carol earworms. It’s hard to avoid these suckers since it seems as if we’ve been bombarded with holiday music since Labor Day. So if you can’t get a Christmas melody out […]
‘Tis the season of Christmas-carol earworms. It’s hard to avoid these suckers since it seems as if we’ve been bombarded with holiday music since Labor Day. So if you can’t get a Christmas melody out […]
When I can’t sleep, or if I get bored while driving, sometimes I’ll amuse myself by making up words. If getting older means I’m going to start forgetting words—or at least have trouble retrieving them […]
When you were a kid, did you ever say, “I can’t wait until I’m old enough to [fill in the blank]?”A lot of my early aspirations had to do with achieving such milestones as: Wearing […]
Where does the time go? Hubs and I recently celebrated our 20th anniversary. Two decades! Not that I doubted we could do it. I just can’t believe this much time has passed. Part of what’s […]
News items that make me smile or go, “Hmmm…” seem to find their way into my files. Apparently, tidbits relating to our privates have this effect on me fairly frequently, judging from the collection that […]
Do you find yourself shaking your head and rolling your eyes at a lot of today’s TV and magazine ads? So many of them are so absurd, ageist, sexist, patronizing and/or [insert your term of […]
Last year, I wrote a post about how inanimate objects around the house can teach us about life, if we allow ourselves to “listen.” Since then, more everyday items have spoken to me (figuratively, that […]
Those darn scientists—they’re always delving into matters we mere mortals never thought to ask about (at least out loud), busting myths, and providing interesting blog fodder in the process. Well, at least I think it’s […]
Boomer Haiku’s pseudo sexpert Dr. B. Ruthless is back with a sex quiz that asks: Where are you on the libido spectrum? In laymen’s terms, that means, “How hot to trot are you?” By way […]
It only stands to reason: the zombie apocalypse, when it happens, will be due to insomnia and sleeplessness. Think about it. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has already declared sleeplessness a public health epidemic, […]