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Jay Ahlbeck at Breithorn Summit. Ahlbeck shares lessons from Breithorn
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Lessons from 13,000 Feet

Reaching the peak of the Breithorn was the goal

By Jay Ahlbeck | October 31, 2023
Old picture of children dressed up in costumes and playing an apple-eating contest, by Everett Collection Inc. Article on Halloween memories
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The Great Halloween Scam

A Boomer reader remembers

By R.G. Begora | October 25, 2023
A sad woman in a wheelchair in a nursing home, by Didesign021. For article on "Whatever happened to living like the Waltons," when the elders shared the family home?
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What Happened to Living Like the Waltons?

When Grandpa and Grandma shared the family home

By Karen Czuleger Strgacich | October 24, 2023
Totem poles in Saxman Native Village. Image by Anna Griessel, article on traveling outside of the guidebook
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‘That’s Not in the Guidebook’

And that’s a good thing

By Dale Davis | October 17, 2023
climate change concept image, with green on one side and parched bare ground and burning mountains on the other.
From Our Readers

The Madhouse Logic

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it yet

By Jim Fetter | September 19, 2023
fountain pen and writing on parchment paper. For post on "Those Little Notes"
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Those Little Notes

Stirring up memories of her mother

By Doreen Mary Frick | September 12, 2023
Santana concert in 2022
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Please, Let There Be More Rock ’n’ Roll!

A Boomer reader remembers, and mourns the passing of icons

By E. A. Grifone | September 6, 2023
Memories and our senses are powerfully connected. Sherrill Pool Elizondo recalls sights, smells, feelings – and the sound of Niagara Falls. Image by Wwycliff.
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I Can Still Hear Niagara Falls

Memories stirred by the senses

By Sherrill Pool Elizondo | August 29, 2023
an old college portico with four rocking chairs and large old photo. CREDIT Josephthomas. Boomer reader Naomi Marcus knows hesitated to go to her reunion. She recalls her challenges attending Columbia University Journalism School. She knows very valid reasons not to go to a reunion. But she went.
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Would You Go to Your Reunion?

A Boomer reader muses on graduate classes, classmates, and changes

By Naomi Marcus | August 22, 2023
young woman with cancer head scarf looking at a cat, softly smiling. Credit: Andreaobzerova. For essay, On Love When You are Dying
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On Love When You Are Dying

An aunt remembers conversations with her niece

By Janet Hammer | August 18, 2023

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