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a pile of old pocketknives, one of the memories that stirs this poet's heart. Boomer reader Julia Nunnally Duncan recalls the little things from the past that speak to her still: "mementos of a past time and place."
From Our Readers

‘The Little Things’

A poem

By Julia Nunnally Duncan | November 5, 2022
Runner along the Stanley Park Seawall Vancouver. Image by Vismax. Author Wesley Shennan muses on his running in days past and the thoughts that used to run interference in his mind as he ran.
From Our Readers

Running Interference

Musings on the thoughts that occupy one runner’s mind

By Wesley Shannon | November 2, 2022
Cover image: Robert W. Norris wrote a moving tribute to his mother: “The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise: Pentimento Memories of Mom and Me.”
Books

‘Pentimento Memories of Mom and Me’

Preface from ‘The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise’ by Robert W. Norris

By Robert W. Norris | October 31, 2022
Chefs working in a Chinese restaurant kitchen. Photo by Sarayuth Punnasuriyaporn, Dreamstime. Chicago, 1957, two boys found fun in watching food prep at a Chinese restaurant. Their experience led to positive influences throughout life.
From Our Readers

The Chinese Restaurant: Memories from Childhood

Curiosity led to a new friend and a lifetime of influence

By R.G. Begora | October 28, 2022
young girl at church Valeriia Titarenko Dreamstime. The 2-year-old gave a gift of canned peas, demonstrating the joy of giving. The world needs “More peas, please,” says her proud grandmother.
From Our Readers

‘More Peas, Please’

A donation from a child sparks joy all around

By Darlene Edwards | October 19, 2022
Julia Nunnally Duncan became enamored of her grandmother's treasures as a child and followed the story behind one: Her great-uncle Charlie Lynch's military collar disks.
From Our Readers

My Grandmother’s Treasures

Trinkets of the past open up new worlds and a reverence for family history

By Julia Nunnally Duncan | October 11, 2022
multiracial senior friends at a table outside, with food and wine, laughing. Alessandro Biascioli Dreamstime. Boomer reader Kate M. Carey bemoans little aches and pains, remedies, and early evenings that infiltrate life with her husband and friends.
From Our Readers

Little Aches and Pains 

A Boomer reader put the inevitabilities of aging into perspective

By Kate M Carey | September 30, 2022
A quilt made from pieces of her mother's aprons: Author, educator, and Boomer reader Diann Logan recalls her mother’s many aprons over the years, her childhood game of playfully untying her mother’s apron strings, the fabrics that made these homespun garments, and the aprons as her ties to the past.
Family

Apron Strings

Fond memories of her mother

By Diann Logan | September 6, 2022
Female scuba diver over a healthy coral reef, Licensed Adobe Stock Photography
From Our Readers

Coral Reefs and Environmental Resilience

Abridged excerpt from ‘Indigenous Reconciliation and Environmental Resilience’ used with permission

By Wesley Shennan | August 31, 2022
A restored Good Humor Truck and man dressed as the Good Humor Man. Photo by Greg Kelton, Dreamstime. A memory of childhood excitement when the Good Humor Truck came to the neighborhood: from hearing the bells to enjoying the "heavenly treat."
From Our Readers

The Good Humor Truck

Fond memories of flagging down the ice cream man

By R. G. Begora | August 30, 2022

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