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How I went back to 1984 with a millennial and a Zoomer or the magic of digital restoration
It’s inevitable that parents pass on their taste, or lack thereof, to their children. For better or worse, my children have had to endure a pop culture menu top billed by Annie Lenox, The Clash, The Doors, Ella, Marvin, King, Spielberg, Star Wars, and Kubrick. I shudder to think of how watching their mother sing…
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How an old fart became a global phenomenon or why I love the Bernie Sanders meme
Of all the the images which came out of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president of the United States, none had as much impact as Senator Bernie Sanders sitting by his lonesome, masked and mittened. Most of the major players chose their attire deliberately, making sure they had their messaging right. Kamala Harris took…
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Generation X is 50, and that’s just excellent!
“When you grow up, your heart dies,” and so goes Allison in The Breakfast Club, a movie set in a library where five teenagers spent most of their time talking. It sounds kinda boring, I know, and kinda angsty, you’re right. But I distinctly remember teenager me murmuring, “I don’t want my heart to die.”…
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How Gen X caregivers cope
By the time my father got confined to the hospital last Friday, another friend’s father had already been in the hospital for a couple of days, as was another friend’s father, as was another friend’s husband. These are the ladies I grew up with. We had shared career stuff and marriage stuff and children’s stuff…
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When Gen Xers care for their Boomer parents
It was Friday the 13th. Mom had been confined to the hospital for a couple of days, and I was the night’s designated watcher. It was almost midnight and for the past one and a half hours, I had been trying to make her comfortable even as she complained of having a headache, experiencing pain…
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