I always get a little nostalgic when I hear Madonna’s This Used To Be My Playground. It reminds me of all the old playground equipment disappearing from our parks and recreationg areas. …Live and learn Tell the years they flew And we never knew We were foolish then We would never tire And that little […]
Defying Odds: Mommy Blogger Appears on Lost Ogle Blog Roll
I’ve been avoiding acknowledging a small feat in my career as a mommy Generation X blogger, because the second I draw attention to it, the doers are probably going to go all Gen-X isolationist-disaffected on me and delete me. Like they say, no good deed goes unpunished. Nevertheless, here’s a lollipop for those crazy fellows who run The Lost Ogle. After […]
Figure Skating Drama Among Gen X Ice Skaters
This Sunday is the Figure Skating Exhibition Gala of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and the perfect opportunity to pause and reflect upon the most soap operatic moments in Gen X ice skater history. Our generation, by broadest definition born between 1961 and 1981, has produced many extraordinary figure skating talents, including the formidable jumper and now infamous, Tonya […]
My Husband Thinks Tesla is the Car for Gen-X
The first time I heard of Tesla was in 1989, about five years after the heavy-metal rock band emerged from Sacramento. I was working at a small factory in Oklahoma City and a guy who worked on the line with me wore Tesla concert T-shirts to work every. He kind of scared me, but I […]
Christmas Cranberry Salsa
Red and Green Christmas Recipe! Cranberry Salsa The other day I discovered a fantastic recipe for cranberry salsa, which I served at our Christmas dinner tonight. I found it on an Oklahoma City blog. The blogger (Carey Sue) is an etiquette expert. When she said this salsa had a kick, she wasn’t kidding! I could eat this all day long, and it’s […]
strawberry pretzel salad
KMGL (104.1 in Oklahoma City) has kept me in Christmas tunes since before Thanksgiving. The other day, the DJs were talking about a recipe posted on the station’s Web site for strawberry pretzel salad. I’d never heard of anything like it, but I thought it sounded Chrismassy and so I decided to try it. This dish is […]
Book: You Are Not Helpless by Erica Warren
In her eight-year career, Erica Warren has worked in four industries, at seven jobs, and been laid off three times, most recently in June 2009. In spite of all of that, this resilient Atlanta Generation Xer is not afraid. A Stimulus Package to Combat Hopelessness Warren has embraced her recent layoff by creating a mental […]
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