The view of Crater Lake in Oregon, from across the car parking lot. Image by Nick Thomas
Nick Thomas

Take a Hike! To Crater Lake in Oregon

Visiting this 7,700-year-old breathtaking beauty

By Nick Thomas | September 10, 2025
A woman with cancer sits in a wheelchair and looks mournfully out of the window. A woman is concerned about her longtime friend’s cancer diagnosis, but the friend’s aggressive reactions to her inquiries are damaging the friendship. Advice columnist Eric Thomas weighs in.
Advice for Life

Friend’s Cancer Diagnosis Splinters Friendship

Hurtful comments are driving a wedge

By R. Eric Thomas | September 5, 2025
Name That Cartoon Caption: September 2025 - a birder with a phoenix on his hand talks to another man who is astonished by the sight
Fun & Games

BOOMER Cartoon Caption Contests: Newest and Beyond

A new chance every month to exercise your sense of humor ... or judge someone else's!

By Brian Marsh | September 2, 2025
grandparents playing a computer puzzle with their granddaughter, like the Jumble puzzles with translations and coins. Image by Nd3000
David L Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

Jumble Puzzles: Translations and Coins

Two scrambled word challenges – Jumble for Kids and the Classic

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek | September 1, 2025
A couple having an argument at home, such as over the husband’s emotional affair. By wavebreakmedia ltd
Advice for Life

Husband’s Emotional Affair

First it’s over, then it’s not

By R. Eric Thomas | August 29, 2025
American Revolution reenactment at Yorktown. By Joe Sohm. Used with What's Booming August 28
What’s Booming – RVA Events

More What’s Booming RVA: Aug. 28 to Sept. 4

Events, a road trip, and news in Boomer’s one-of-a-kind, curated Richmond calendar

By Annie Tobey | August 27, 2025
Senior woman writing, as her writing group helped her achieve her late bloomer boomer goals
From Our Readers

Late Bloomer Boomer: How My Writing Tribe Helped Me Grow

One woman’s story of achieving a dream

By J.H. Jones | August 26, 2025
Items in the Marx Brothers exhibit, including one of the dangling prop ducks from Groucho’s TV series, “You Bet Your Life.” PHOTO CREDIT: Sheri Determan, Courtesy Hollywood Museum.
Nick Thomas

The Hollywood Museum Marx Brothers Exhibit

Jade Marx reflects on grandpa Groucho

By Nick Thomas | August 25, 2025
A man in the hospital bed with a nurse checking on him. Post on a disrespectful nurse. Image by Auremar
Advice for Life

Upset by a Disrespectful Nurse

Sticks and stones broke his bones, and words hurt, too

By R. Eric Thomas | August 22, 2025
big black lace-up boots. Image by Vera Aksionava. For Connie Cook, the bunion saga means wearing ugly cumbersome shoes
From Our Readers

Me, With 11 Toes

The dilemma: shed the bunion or wear ‘cumbersome clod-hoppers’

By Connie Cook | August 19, 2025

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