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The meaning of Motown for a white kid

Jim Marshall - 0
Do you remember them? Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Drifters, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, The Chiffons, The Shirelles,...
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To everything there is a season. Some thoughts on inner harvesting

Virginia Carver - 3
There’s a small branching plant with clusters of yellow pods that burst open in the fall to reveal intense orange, jewel-like berries. In Indiana...
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The Crazy Club

Charlotte "Chip" McDaniel - 0
On my fiftieth birthday I visited Mother at her nursing home, thinking about my own mortality. Mother was hunched in her old brown recliner...
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Letters from Vietnam: 1967 & 1968. A follow up

Betsy Bean - 0
In response to Myrna Adams West’s two articles about the letters she and her brother Fred exchanged while he was in Vietnam, several readers...
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Letters from Vietnam, 1968: Love that knows no boundaries.

Myrna Adams West - 5
In January and February 1968 while I was sleeping snug and warm in my dorm at Tift College, my brother Frederick was spending nights...
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My Vietnam Decision: Join or Be Drafted

Betsy Bean - 1
Larry Hudson had never contemplated going to college — it wasn’t a common goal for African American young men when he graduated from segregated Burney Harris...
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My Vietnam Decision: Deferment and Luck

Jim Marshall - 1
The year 1969 was not altogether different from this year — the country was deeply divided by politics, race, culture, geography, and most especially,...
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The Necklace Plant

Rosemary Woodel - 0
When I was a child, every few weeks we would visit my Aunt Norene, my daddy’s sister, and her husband, Uncle Nat. They lived...
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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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A Memoir: What I Learned from a Sexual Assault in 1975

Connie Crawley - 0
If you ask most people to describe an influential teacher, they will pick an inspirational person who taught them in school or on a...
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How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood

BoomAthens - 0
White baby boomers born and raised in the deep South each have a unique personal history of their  experiences and attitudes about race. They...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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