- Boomer Girl Diary: Diet duel while eating out
- September 16, 2012
- “What are you going to have?” I ask, folding the menu and placing it on the table. “I dunno. What did we have last night?” he counters, as if I have a clue.
- Boomer Girl: ‘Fifty Shades of Radar’ the next best-seller
- September 2, 2012
- I wasn’t going to go there. Really, I wasn’t. But this “Fifty Shades of Grey” business is out of control.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Missing the good old back-to-school days
- August 19, 2012
- This week, I must have “liked” 347 “first day of school” pictures on my Facebook page.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Never too late to set a world record
- August 5, 2012
- I want a WR. You know what I’m talking about, right? I want a world record next to my name for all of eternity.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Waiting is the hardest part
- July 15, 2012
- I am sitting in a doctor’s office waiting room, doing what responsible parties normally do in such places: biding time.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Filling the empty nest with puppy love
- July 1, 2012
- Boomerang Child No. 2 hurled herself out of our home and into her own place last week, ushering in a new era I’ve dubbed “Empty Nest, Part 3.” I know, it’s not very creative. But “Naked Days and Naked Nights” sounded unseemly, not to mention misleading.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Designs to see Queen Lizzie royally sunk
- June 24, 2012
- The old man and I just returned from a two-week trip to the motherlands of our ancestors: England, Ireland and, of course, Scotland.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Logic doesn’t apply to luggage
- May 20, 2012
- “Everyone over there wears the same stuff we wear over here,” my husband said.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Can’t go wrong with coffee maker for Mom
- May 6, 2012
- In case you haven’t heard, Mother’s Day is next Sunday. And, while most of you might not give it another thought until Saturday, I’m proffering some learned Mother’s Day advice, especially if the mom in your life is “of a certain age.”
- Boomer Girl Diary: Texting can be a pain in the neck
- April 15, 2012
- Attention soon-to-be-graduates and displaced boomers looking for a new career: The jobs of the future aren’t in plastics. They aren’t in law, rocket science or even Botox. If you want a vocation that will be both lucrative and personally rewarding for decades to come, think chiropractic.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Win or lose, watching the game a good time
- April 1, 2012
- Filing this column at my Thursday afternoon deadline, I don’t know whether you’ll be reading it today on a “thrill-of-victory” high or an “agony-of-defeat” low. It doesn’t matter. This one isn’t about wins and losses. It’s not about end results. It’s about the process.
- Boomer Girl Diary: The secret to getting a good night’s sleep
- March 18, 2012
- I’ve got a little secret, and I’m hesitant to reveal it to you.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Not quite ready for a life of leisure
- March 4, 2012
- There was good and bad news this week.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Sun worship burns later in life
- February 19, 2012
- I was a child of the ’60s. By that I mean an actual child — age 5 to 15, over the course of the decade.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Getting into a Siri-ous friendship
- February 5, 2012
- I was so excited to find her under the tree. “Look how beautiful!” I cried. “So sleek, so chic. So… me!”
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