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Betsy Bean

Betsy Bean completed graduate school at UGA in 1972. She was a school librarian for a year and then became a rock and roll DJ for the next 10. Subsequently, she worked as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal/Constitution, followed by public relations and marketing and newsletter publishing and was, more recently, the downtown development director for the City of Anniston, Ala.
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In This Issue Vol. 3, No. 4

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Writing and publishing a book is a huge undertaking but there seem to be no end of local boomers who have done it recently....
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Boomer Life

Athens Places in Peril African American sites lead the list

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Melissa Jest, African American Programs Director for the Georgia Historic Preservation Division has worked in three majority-minority cities – Philadelphia, Washington, and Savannah –...
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Boomer Life

Gay couple reflects on long journey

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Frank Scott, 78, and Al Nettleton, 88, have been together 26 years, but both men began their adult lives in heterosexual marriages. Between them,...
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In This Issue Vol. 3, No 3

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It’s the nature of the publishing business that sometimes we start out in one direction, only to veer off or...
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Caregiving

Caregiving: Where to start

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Megan Vogt is immersed in the issues of caregiving. As program manager for the Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC) at the NE Georgia...
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Caregiving

Who will care for us?

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A PBS report last summer painted an alarming picture of the pressures that are building on the home care industry. Caring for the aged...
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Opinion

Just a thought. Of caregiving, book clubs, and mortality

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Talk about coincidence. When I planned this issue earlier in the summer, I didn’t know about the book my own book club was going...
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In This Issue Vol. 2, No. 5

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Rosalynn Carter said it best: “There are only four kinds of people in the world. Those who have been caregivers. Those who are currently...
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In This Issue

In This Issue: Vol.2, No. 4

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Things change for all of us as we age, but Boomer-era men, perhaps more than any of us, are faced with some challenges they...
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Local News

Artistically Designed Bus Shelters in Athens

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Here's a sample of the latest art shelters funded by the SPLOST program and administered by the Athens Cultural Affairs Program.
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Sponsored

OLLI classes continue online

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It is, or at least it was, easy to take everything around us for granted – our favorite restaurants, our walks, our routine. Sometimes...
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Legislature

Governor signs senior care safety bill

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In a special summer session, the state legislature unanimously passed HB 987, which provides more safeguards for seniors in assisted living and personal care...
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19-News

Stuck On A Cruise Ship and Other Stories of Sudden Change

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Athens resident Wendy Bartels flew out of Atlanta on Feb. 29 for a two-week cruise along the coast of South America with her sister,...
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Caregiving

Nursing Home Model In Trouble

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Life and Death in Senior Living Facilities Senior Wire Getting older in American will never be the same, after the astonishing death toll in nursing homes...
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Magazine

Boomers Write

Editor Picks

Humor

I need a new bra

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Caregiving for his 80-year-old mother challenged one writer’s ingenuity when she told him “I Need A Bra.” Enjoy two new submissions to the Boomers Write section.
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Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1967

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Small flakes of snow prickled against my face and hands and left little wet splotches on the stationery on my lap.  It was 1967,...
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