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Animal Farm: The Rest of the Story
Author Forrest Greenslade offers an allegory for current events
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Relationships With Our Parents, Grandparents, Ancestors and Descendants Until the Day We Die, Or Long After?
My father died in 1988 but I still have a relationship with him.
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Dad’s Surprising Wisdom
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Aging, Choices and Parental Figures' Deaths
Will it be on our own terms?
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'The Longing For Home.' Eden, With A Sense of Place
“Eden is a conversation.
Mar 17, 2024
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Historian-Journalist Charlie Clark Lives On
He thought global, wrote local; created a vast archive; and still helps the public learn about a rare brain disease
Mar 17, 2024
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Broken Long-Term Care System
Dowager Mother-in-Law's Story Touched Readers
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A 101-Year-Old's Final Week
She did it her way
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92+ Years Apart, Yet Linked Together
Happy Holidays
Dec 25, 2023
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Boomers Forever
A meme I can’t resist sharing.
Dec 16, 2023
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All We Are Is Dust in the Wind? Is That All There Is?
This catchy tune by Kansas from 1977 expressed the existential angst that a lot of people felt.
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Rosalynn Carter on Caregiving, Mental Health
Former First Lady passes on, age 96
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