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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
calico cat, credit Maisan Caines. For "Gladys, my formidable feline foe" essay by Jeff Sawyer
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Gladys, My Formidable Feline Foe

Memories of a childhood calico cat

By Jeff Sawyer | August 15, 2023
an embroidered lace handkerchief, by Ale059
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Gretchen’s Handkerchief

Remembering a childhood piano teacher and her old-fashioned ways

By Julia Nunnally Duncan | August 8, 2023
a drive-in movie theater in the 1960s, from Everett Collection. The first drive-in movie theater opened in 1933, giving birth to memories of drive-in movies for many people, like this fond remembrance. 
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Memories of Drive-in Movies

A brief history and a reminiscence

By Carl Scharwath | August 1, 2023
young hands and old hands exchanging a bright red heart. From Kosobu. For article, Did I Learn Anything from the Pandemic?
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Did I Learn Anything from the Pandemic?

A Boomer reader wonders if the lessons have endured

By Karen Czuleger Strgacich | July 26, 2023
elderly woman in park, from Vladimir Voronin. The 81-year-old celebrity showed us that we can look great at any age – or was the message something entirely different? Baby boomer Margaret Hopkins offers a tongue-in-cheek look at the swimsuit-clad Martha Stewart and how her generation views aging and body image.
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Thanks a Lot, Martha Stewart

Congrats on the SI swimsuit edition, but ...

By Margaret Hopkins | July 18, 2023
Marilyn Monroe statue at Madame Tussaud's museum, photo by Sanja Baljkas
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Marilyn and Me

An 11-year-old’s coming of age and the iconic sex symbol

By Bill Levine | July 11, 2023
Solomon and Lottie Callihoo, and their children, Charlie, Christina, and Camilla. Camilla went to live in the Canadian residential school system for Indigenous children soon after and never returned to her family.
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‘I Never Got to Meet Her’

A family tragedy that resonates a century later

By Wesley Shennan | July 5, 2023

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