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Alan Sivell's A Boomer Life

By: Alan R Sivell
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  • I’m one of 74,000,000 Baby Boomers. I am writing my life story (on my blog) and narrating it (here) because if I don’t, the only earthly notice of my middle-class, middle-American existence might be a feature story in a nursing home’s newsletter when I reach 110: “Last Surviving Woodstock Attendee: ‘It was a hot, muddy mess.’”
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Episodes
  • Chapter 28: Working for the Man (And I am the Man)

    Chapter 28: Working for the Man (And I am the Man)
    May 21 2024
    At the end of April and during the first two weeks of May, 1970, my life felt like the crescendo at the end of the Beatles’ song “A Day in the Life” when there is this crazy whirl of noise and music that spirals up in energy, pace […]
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    12 mins
  • Chapter 30: The Nightmare of the Dream Job

    Chapter 30: The Nightmare of the Dream Job
    May 21 2024
    I drove down Farmington Avenue shaking with excitement and nervousness. I was heading to an interview for a paid, three-month co-op job at the Hartford Courant. The only thing that could have topped this interview would have been one with the Yankees. I’d been reading the Courant since […]
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    14 mins
  • Chapter 29: A Forgettable Fall

    Chapter 29: A Forgettable Fall
    May 21 2024
    My education for sophomore year had started earlier that summer. That’s because Northeastern only offered dorms for first year men and then they were unleashed on the city to find their own room and board. I had spent just nine short months removed from the safety and security […]
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    12 mins
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