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COVID19: 10 WAYS TO BE A SMART AND SAFE BOOMER RIGHT NOW

Sharron Hannon - 0
There’s an article making the rounds on Facebook about adult children who are freaking out because their Boomer parents are not taking the present...
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ACCA meal costs up $12,000 a week

BoomAthens - 0
The Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA) reports that meal delivery during the COVID-19 crisis has expanded to serve 509 new clients in addition...
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Senior trade group finds silver lining in COVID crisis

Betsy Bean - 1
Members of the Athens Senior Resource Network held their regular monthly meeting today through the meeting platform Zoom. Thirteen members representing home care agencies,...
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Stuck On A Cruise Ship and Other Stories of Sudden Change

BoomAthens - 0
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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Assisted Living Residents Get Creative

Sharron Hannon - 0
Experiencing the pandemic in community-living facilities For those in community-living situations – including independent and assisted living facilities – the onset of the pandemic has...
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Senior trade group finds silver lining in COVID crisis

Betsy Bean - 1
Members of the Athens Senior Resource Network held their regular monthly meeting today through the meeting platform Zoom. Thirteen members representing home care agencies,...
Read more
19-News

ACCA meal costs up $12,000 a week

BoomAthens - 0
The Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA) reports that meal delivery during the COVID-19 crisis has expanded to serve 509 new clients in addition...
Read more
19-News

COVID19: 10 WAYS TO BE A SMART AND SAFE BOOMER RIGHT NOW

Sharron Hannon - 0
There’s an article making the rounds on Facebook about adult children who are freaking out because their Boomer parents are not taking the present...
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Boomer Life

Moving Their “Retirement” Home – All 300,000 Pounds.

Betsy Bean - 0
  While many boomers are downsizing their living space or are planning to do so, Tom and Beth Allen have enlarged theirs. In fact, they...
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Boomer Life

Home Ec Revisited: More Than Cooking and Sewing

Theresa Rice - 1
  Boomer boys took shop and auto mechanics in junior and senior high. We young ladies studied Home Economics. We were introduced to kitchens and...
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Boomer Life

Uber and Lyft

Saleen Martin - 2
The money can be very good; the hassles mostly minor, and the hours totally flexible, say some of the boomers driving locally for the...
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Memoir

Genealogical Surprises! Love Letters Reveal a Mother I Never Knew

Doris Y. Kadish - 0
I retired from the UGA departments of romance languages and women's studies in 2011 after a lifetime of studying and teaching. And for all...
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Boomer Life

The Acquisitive Generation Begins to Downsize

Betsy Bean - 0
Teresa Howard, 59, and her husband, Dallas, 63, are anxious to sell their 4,200 sq.f. house in Lawrenceville to move closer to their daughter...
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I need a new bra

Dan Akins - 1
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

Myrna Adams West - 6
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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