Roxanne Jones blogs at Boomer Haiku, a mostly light-hearted, often irreverent look at life as a baby boomer, 17 syllables at a time. We’ve all seen ‘em: those “listicles” that impart wisdom (“All I Need to Know About Life…”) gleaned from dogs, cats, cows, the Easter bunny, toddlers and the like. Life lessons, it seems, …
Roxanne Jones blogs at BoomerHaiku. This post was originally featured there. Memories My 80-year-old mother-in-law came to live with Hubs and me for what turned out to be the last six months of her life in 2004. Pat had lost her husband the year before to complications from Alzheimer’s disease, and was in year eight …
Roxanne Jones blogs at BoomerHaiku. This post was originally featured there. As crazy-making as it can be to care for aging parents sometimes, there also can be moments of snort-stuff-out-your-nose hilarity. Sometimes we only see the humor in retrospect – since we’re so aggravated or mortified at the time it’s happening. Here’s a case in …
As I stood at the magnifying mirror one recent morning plucking rogue moustache hairs, it occurred to me that this was something I never had to do 20 years ago. Damned interlopers. I have two words for errant facial hairs: pluck ‘em! This got me thinking about all the other things I didn’t have to do …
Roxanne Jones has found some amazing but true medical reports that can change the life of boomers everywhere! Read more from Roxanne on her blog. Many medical advances we now take for granted were the stuff of science fiction when we boomers were growing up. Now that we are grown up, medical science continues to …
