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4 weeks ago | 
brainerddispatch.com | Sue Sterling
This month I’m going to digress from my baby boomer theme and speak to the whole community. Memorial Day was recently observed in this country, so I want to speak to you about my experience as a mother of three soldiers and being the daughter of a World War II survivor. War is hell, even for the family members left at home when their soldier goes off to war. Flashback: It’s 2004 and two of my three sons are fighting in a war — one in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan.
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2 months ago | 
brainerddispatch.com | Sue Sterling
Welcome to Spring, and since Mother’s Day is just two weeks away, I’m going to focus on grandmothers. Whether you are a baby boomer or Generation X, Y or Zer, you have a grandmother somewhere. Well, my grandmother was my Shero. During a walk in the park recently I watched a young mother pushing her toddler on the swings, and my thoughts reverted to days of long ago when it was me pushing my child on a swing after a long day’s work. I remember wanting to give him everything the world had to offer.
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2 months ago | 
brainerddispatch.com | A Resident |Sue Sterling
The unrecognized war — a conflict, according to the government — was fought in Vietnam between 1955 and 1975. These were turbulent times in America, too, not just in Vietnam. While our soldiers were fighting to keep communism from spreading, the streets of America were battle grounds for equal rights; anti-war sentiments were broadcast every night from radio and TV news stations. Many of our soldiers came home to ridicule and hostility, but did their best to fit back into society.
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Mar 29, 2025 | 
brainerddispatch.com | A Resident |Sue Sterling
Loneliness is an insidious disease. It is an anti-discriminatory disorder that afflicts people of all ages, races, and creeds. It probably contributes to more deaths each year than all other diseases combined, yet they haven’t manufactured a drug capable of curing it. There are a lot of imitation cures out there in the form of antidepressants and mood-altering drugs that mask the symptoms, but what is the real remedy? It afflicts many regardless of their social status.
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Mar 29, 2025 | 
pineandlakes.com | Sue Sterling
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Feb 22, 2025 | 
brainerddispatch.com | A Resident |Sue Sterling
Have you ever felt really stupid, I mean really, really stupid? You’ve always thought you would recognize a scammer when approached by phone, text or online but then when it actually happens to you, you fall for it. That’s what happened to me, and I tried for a long time to understand why I didn’t listen to my gut when I got that call. This is how it all transpired. Fear was the main instigator of my acquiescence to the callers’ demands.
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Jan 26, 2025 | 
brainerddispatch.com | A Resident |Sue Sterling
OK, baby boomers, like it or not many of us are now some of the oldest members of our family and society. If you haven’t noticed, we have not aged like our parents’ generation or the generations prior to them. We have cut out an identity unknown since the industrial revolution. That being said, we have the ability to show this country, and the world, that we can overcome the ideology that has driven this country over the past years.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
brainerddispatch.com | Sue Sterling
The year 2024 is coming to a close and I, like many others of my generation, get retrospective this time of year. For us baby boomers, most of our life is behind us and we would like to share the things we’ve learned during our lifetime with the young. The irony is, they don’t want to listen. They just want to go about their lives making their own mistakes. I’ve been wanting to write a letter to my 20-year-old granddaughter to share some wisdom with her and her new husband, age 22.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
brainerddispatch.com | A Resident |Sue Sterling
By the time you read this, Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is fast approaching, bringing with it challenges that only us “Golden Agers” and “Baby Boomers” understand. Like wondering if you want to go to all the bother to put up the decorations and bake all the treats. After all, it’s not like you have a family around to appreciate it, and it takes so much energy to put up and take down those decorations. And Christmas cards — do we send them, or is that a thing of the past now?
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
brainerddispatch.com | Sue Sterling
BRAINERD โ On Wednesday, Nov. 20, the community was treated to a magic show that helped raise funds and fun for the Minnesota Disabled American Veterans (DAV). It was organized by Tammy Ebertowski and supported by many local businesses and organizations. Members of the Brainerd Honor Guard were there to post the colors and lead the attendees with the Pledge of Allegiance.
