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Boomer Opinion: There can be good news in climate change

Climate change rarely becomes a headline story. But it’s always in the background, and in this political year, moving toward…

Boomer Opinion: Iran is a dangerous gamble

BoomerCafé’s co-founder and executive editor Greg Dobbs, a veteran journalist, covered Iran over many years, from the revolution to the…

A boomer learns the hard way about traveling with protection

Pat O’Donnell of the Kansas City suburb of Olathe was taking one of those trips of a lifetime: a week-long…

Boomer Opinion: Will Science & Technology Save Us?

Some big changes aren’t headline stories. And that’s what Ed Meek of Somerville, Massachusetts, writes about in this Boomer Opinion…

A boomer’s breakup… with an unlikely lover

We think some of you will relate to this: San Francisco author Marsh Rose is breaking up. But in this…

Facts to Know About Buying a Retirement Condo

Written by John Moran If you and your spouse are looking for a new place to call home for your…

This boomer gives us the whole poop on messy grandkids

Did you have kids? Do you have grandkids? If so, you’ll relate to this story about How to Bathe a…

Those sexual awakening days of a boomer’s education

Boy meets girl? Sure, that happened when we boomers were young. Boy loses girl? Yep, that too. And that’s the…

Boomer Opinion: a worrisome presidential election year

We just don’t know yet how, if at all, the current crisis with Iran might affect the presidential race. But…

Boomer Opinion: For this funny boomer, something sober

It must be hard for a career columnist who has always written about the oddities in other people’s lives to…

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