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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...
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...
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...
Boomer Life

CNAs worked through risk. Home care companies scrambled

Betsy Bean - 0
Linda Stephens, 62, began caregiving at an early age in the tiny town of Siloam in Greene County. As a child, she took care...
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Boomer Life

Life in Corona-time

Sharron Hannon - 2
My husband and I are mostly homebodies, so our travel in early March was unusual. First, there was the weekend in Atlanta, watching our...
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Boomer Life

Get a move on!

Sharron Hannon - 0
January is the time for new year’s resolutions and topping many people’s lists is a resolve to get more exercise. For seniors, that’s a...
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Boomer Life

Author! Author! Boomer Writers Abound.

Kelly Capers - 0
Following their passions and learning the book business Writing the Great American Novel may be a pipe dream for those of us in later life,...
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Boomer Life

Athens Places in Peril African American sites lead the list

Betsy Bean - 0
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

Betsy Bean - 0
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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Boomer Life

Second Acts: Boomers launch new careers and new lives

Kelly Capers and Betsy Bean - 0
From singer to actor: Originally from Nebraska, Marty Winkler is the ninth of 14 children. From the beginning she was destined to stand out from the crowd, performing her own work in public
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Boomer Life

Activism Then and Now, Part 2

Kelly Capers and Betsy Bean - 0
Nancy McNair, 81, grew up in a Quaker household in Swarthmore, Pa., so activism came early for her, even in the conservative 1950s. “My mother...
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Boomer Life

Activism Then and Now

Kelly Capers and Betsy Bean - 0
Many baby boomers were swept up in the tides of change beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, marching, protesting, meeting, boycotting, organizing, letter-writing, petitioning...
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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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Boomers Write

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Humor

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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