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Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1967

Myrna Adams West - January 10, 2018 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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Letters from Vietnam, 1968: Love that knows no boundaries.

Myrna Adams West - March 19, 2018 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: Deferment and Luck

Jim Marshall - March 19, 2018 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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To everything there is a season. Some thoughts on inner harvesting

Virginia Carver - October 20, 2019 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 - October 27, 2018 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 - June 8, 2018 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...

Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1968: Love that knows no boundaries.

Myrna Adams West - March 19, 2018 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...

Memoir

My Vietnam Decision: Join or Be Drafted

Betsy Bean - March 19, 2018 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...

Memoir

My Vietnam Decision: Deferment and Luck

Jim Marshall - March 19, 2018 1

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

Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1967

Myrna Adams West - January 10, 2018 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,...

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

Betsy Bean - June 15, 2016 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 - March 21, 2017 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 - January 19, 2017 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 - June 15, 2016 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 - November 11, 2016 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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