Boomeresque:Definition
1. Adj.: Describing a person born between 1 Jan. 1946 and 31 Dec. 1964
2. Adj.: Description of a person, place or thing possessing Baby Boomer je ne sais quoi
3. See also, Boomer, Esq.: A Baby Boomer who is also a licensed attorney (See, e.g., About).

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Zentangle Diva’s Challenge #207 – Bethesda, Maryland Edition

March 2, 2015 29 comments

[If you’re scratching your head and wondering, “Zen-what?”, start here.] I wear a few hats: recovering lawyer, mother of adult sons and one fur child, daughter of a soon to be 90 year old mother, blogger and trailing spouse. The last is why I found myself attempting today’s Diva’s challenge in a Starbucks in Bethesda, […]

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Zentangle Diva’s Challenge #206 – Out of My Comfort Zone Edition

February 23, 2015 27 comments

(If you’ve never heard of Zentangle, start here.) The Zentangle Diva’s challenge this week is to use materials or tools we’ve never used before for tangling. Uh oh. Change is anxiety producing for me and I’m already feeling stressed because we leave for Turkey and Israel on March 11th, we’ll be gone for three weeks […]

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Zentangle Diva’s Challenge #205 – Phrozen in Philadelphia Edition

February 17, 2015 24 comments

Zentangle Diva Challenge #205

Last week, I responded to the Zentangle Diva’s Valentangle challenge from a cruise ship in the Caribbean Sea. Some of you left comments suggesting that you would rather have been there than where you were. If misery likes company, you will be happy to know that we flew back to Philadelphia on Sunday, landing when the wind […]

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Zentangle Diva’s Challenge #204 – Valentangle – Bright Blue Sea Edition

February 9, 2015 21 comments

Zentangle Diva's Valentangle challenge

Let me start by apologizing to all my Canadian, northern US friends and northern European friends for posting this from the Caribbean Sea aboard a cruise ship, the Celebrity Silhouette. If it looks like a lot of people are missing where you live in Canada, I want to assure you that they probably were not abducted […]

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Zentangle Diva’s Challenge #203 – “Get Me Outta Here” Edition

February 2, 2015 28 comments

(If you are sitting there scratching your head and wondering, Zen—what? who?, you may want to start here for my take on it (prior to my upcoming training to be a Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) after which my take is likely to change.) It’s the first Monday of the month, so this week is a […]

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Zentangle Diva’s Challenge #202 – Snowmageddon Edition

January 26, 2015 35 comments

Zentangle Diva's challenge #202 Chebucto and Copada

(If you are sitting there scratching your head and wondering, Zen—what? who?, you may want to start here for my explanation of what Zentangle is and how I became addicted.) This week, the Zentangle Diva, Laura Harms, challenged us to produce a “DuoTangle” using only two tangles by Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) Laura Bremner, chebucto […]

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Zentangle Diva’s Challenge #201 – Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day

January 19, 2015 23 comments

My composition (tile) in recognition of Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day.

(If you are sitting there scratching your head and wondering, Zen—what? who?, you may want to start here for my explanation of what it is and how I became addicted.) This week, Laura Harms, the Zentangle Diva, has challenged us to use the moebius syndrome logo in a composition to promote Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day which […]

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Zentangle Diva’s Challenge #200 — “Bi-zen-tennial Celebration”

January 12, 2015 38 comments

Zentangle Diva weekly challenge #200

(For those of you new to Zentangle, you can read my take on it here.) This week, the Zentangle Diva challenged us to produce a monotangle tile using one of our “mac ‘n cheese” (i.e. comfort) tangles and incorporating the number 200 to celebrate the 200th week of the Diva’s weekly challenges. One of my […]

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Zentangle Diva’s Challenge #199 — Hitched

January 5, 2015 26 comments

Zentangle Diva's Weekly challenge #199 --- Hitch

After a two week hiatus over the holidays, the Zentangle Diva returned this week to challenge us to use a tangle developed by HeidiSue called “Hitch”. HeidiSue reported that she developed this tangle when she made a mistake trying to learn how to make a Celtic Cross. Apparently, she ascribes to my husband’s mantra that […]

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Zentangle Diva’s Challenge #198 – Keep it Simple

December 15, 2014 22 comments

The Diva’s challenge this week is to “Keep it Simple”. Hmm. This is easier said than done for a recovering type A lawyer. I made an executive decision that for me, keeping it simple meant doing a monotangle for which I chose “phicops” — one of my current tangle favorites. But then, I couldn’t resist adding […]

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