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EndNotes archive for Oct. 8, 2013

TUESDAY, OCT. 8, 2013

Paul Merkel for Endnotes (Courtesy Walline / The Spokesman-Review)

Writing your parents' lives

In Monday's Boomer U, we ran an excerpt of the book Rain Delayed by Linda Merkel Walline. Her father Paul Merkel led a Whitworth College baseball team to a national championship in 1960, against great odds and on a shoestring budget. Walline researched and wrote…

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Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.