- Boomer Girl Diary: Girl Scouts could steer us out of financial crisis
- November 15, 2009
- I am hunkered down over my keyboard, working feverishly (OK, tepidly) on my weekly column.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Extra hour’s sleep insufficient preparation for holiday onslaught
- November 8, 2009
- Today, gentle friends and readers, I’d like to discuss the convergence of the end of daylight saving time with the beginning of the holiday season and how it’s become TOO FREAKING MUCH FOR ME TO BEAR!
- Boomer Girl Diary: Forecast windy for 2nd colonoscopy
- October 25, 2009
- I wrote about my first colonoscopy three years ago — to the consternation of a few sensitive readers — and swore once would be enough on that subject, thank you very much.
- Doggie disasters can’t fend off desire to bring home new companion
- October 11, 2009
- I didn’t want to get another dog. In fact, I was adamant about it.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Celebrity sightings gone wild
- October 4, 2009
- The hubby and I returned this week from a much-needed vacation in California. We started and ended our journey in the Los Angeles area where I hoped to spot a major movie star.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Travel turbulence begins with packing process
- September 20, 2009
- Traveling is hard enough these days.
- Mighty mouse disrupts household
- September 13, 2009
- A distraught woman isn’t much fun to live with. That’s why men often say dumb things in lame attempts to make us feel better. Some examples: “Don’t worry; it will grow back.” “Of course I was listening.” “No bigger than in any other jeans you wear.”
- Boomer Girl Diary: Trends make terrible masters
- September 6, 2009
- This week, the eagerly anticipated list of the “Top Ten Fall Fashion Trends” was released by Neiman Marcus.
- Boomer Girl Diary: High rollers few and far between in Quad Cities
- August 30, 2009
- Last weekend, I traveled alone to Davenport, Iowa, to attend a gathering of BoomerGirls at the Quad-Cities Convention Center.
- Crushes
- August 24, 2009
- My husband was not my first love. There were many others before him. And, by that I mean many, MANY others. The first was Wally Cleaver. Deep in my heart, I knew he was way too mature for a girl of 7. He was in high school, after all. His younger brother, Beaver, was a more age-appropriate match. But Wally was so cute with his wavy brown hair and big blue eyes. I loved him unabashedly and was bitterly jealous of his girlfriend — that pert and perky Mary Ellen Rogers — who was so unworthy of him.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Garage door, car fender longtime blood brothers
- August 23, 2009
- I don’t mean to brag, but as a wife and housemate, I’m just about perfect.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Week with rehabbing mom reveals unexplainable quirks
- August 16, 2009
- I arrived at my mother’s house last Sunday afternoon — suitcase, laptop and mini-blender in hand.
- Boomer Girl Diary: The future of health care: Take a number
- August 9, 2009
- I am sitting in Surgery Waiting Room 1, doing what a person is supposed to do in such an aptly named place: I’m waiting.
- Tree Frog resonates in any language
- August 2, 2009
- MY freshman year in college, I got an A in Latin. I’m talking five credit hours each semester, people! Sure, it was only Latin 101, but my scholastic accomplishment is worth noting due to my previously poor record in Spanish, my otherwise unimpressive GPA and a band named Tree Frog.<
- Boomer Girl Diary: Sleep woes fast track to lunacy
- July 26, 2009
- Anyone who suffers bouts of insomnia is all too familiar with the inner bedtime monologue.
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