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Eating a raw oyster, like Chicken Jack demonstrated. Image by Volodymyr Tverdokhlib
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The Legend of Chicken Jack

A brief meeting, a lifelong lesson, and oysters

By Phil Perkins | August 12, 2025
A vintage classroom. AI generated, by Yulia Ryabokon. For memories of growing up in the 1960s and '70s, "we never walked alone."
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‘We Never Walked Alone’

Reflections from a 1957 baby boomer

By Gregory Meece | August 5, 2025
Road trip bonding pic from the trip, from Allan Ripp
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Road Trip Bonding

‘Take Me Home, Dad’

By Allan Ripp | July 29, 2025
One of the people that the author met, "Like ships in the night," on her travels
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Like Ships in the Night

A lifetime of travel and of meeting memorable strangers

By Sherrill Pool Elizondo | July 22, 2025
A man plays a home piano, with a smile on his face. "Enjoy Yourself," a classic old song! Image by Tatsiana Yatsevich
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‘Enjoy Yourself’

An uncle’s favorite song plays on in her mind

By Gail Bobrowitz | July 15, 2025
Collectibles in an attic. Image by Joachim Berschauer
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Is There a Hidden Fortune in Your Attic?

Silly collectibles gathering dust

By John Ficarra | July 8, 2025
Young teenage boys on bikes, as in the story "We Were Explorers." Image by Brett Jorgensen
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For the First Time, We Were Explorers

An adventure in that summer between grade school and junior high

By Roger Pierangelo | July 1, 2025
A hand holding a cigarette, demonstrates the concept of a "tarnished finger" – Image by Alikaj2582
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Why I Became a ‘Tarnished Finger’

Exploring the roots of his smoking habit, from infancy on

By Jimmy R. Coleman | June 24, 2025
A country farmhouse and outbuildings, a happy place and part of the ten-year plan. Image by Snehitdesign
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The Ten-Year Plan

The stages of life

By Andy Juniper | June 17, 2025
Beach memories: A young couple getting set up on a beach in the late 1940s or early 1950s at Myrtle Beach.
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Myrtle Beach Memories

How I spent my summer vacations

By Lonnie Mann | June 10, 2025

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