Barn Near Luther, Oklahoma | Photo by Jennifer Chronicles | ALL RIGHTS RESERVEDAn earlier version of this post appeared on the Gen-X Substack. 🐙 Billy Beans: Deep Where the Stories Live For the past few summers, I’ve been retracing the steps of my misspent youth,...
Monica Lewinsky Reclaiming Podcast Inspires Listeners to Reclaim What’s Been Lost, Taken
Reclaiming Monicay Lewinsky These fragments I have shored against my ruins.(T.S. Eliot) What do you want to reclaim? Monica Lewinksy, the nation's leading voice on cyberbullying and public shaming, is nearly 20 episodes into her new podcast aptly titled Reclaiming....
FUN: Essays on a Life Embraced Is a Heartfelt Homage to Gen X
Aline Weiller’s Fun: Essays On A Life Embraced is a fun conversation with a perceptive friend who has lived, laughed, and loved deeply. Part memoir, part cultural reverie, Weiller captures the Gen X experience with a voice that’s both personal and relatable. One of my...
In This Brief Life by Eugene Richards
In This Brief Life In This Brief Life, by Eugene Richards, is a collection of more than 50 years of mostly unseen photographs. It features some of the photographer's earliest pictures of sharecropper life in the Arkansas Delta. In addition, many of the photos feature...
18 To Party Billed As 💌 Love Letter to Gen-X
18 to Party is an independent coming-of-age film billed as a love letter to Generation X. A 2019 film-festival favorite, it will be released in theaters on November 6. 18 To Party Synopsis It’s 1984 and outside a small-town nightclub, a group of 8th graders gather,...
Giveaway! 50th Anniversary Edition Judy Blume’s “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Judy Blume's iconic coming-of-age book, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., I am hosting a special giveaway! The prize is a copy of this new special edition book, which features a deluxe faux-leather embossed cover in...
Before Cobra Kai There Was Hong Kong Phooey
My husband Robert is pretty much ready to call it a night every night at 9 p.m. So, the fact he kept me up three nights in a row binge-watching Cobra Kai, is an indication of just how much Gen-Xers -- particularly Gen-X men -- love this show. Originally released as a...
MTV Documentary Airs on Tuesday
An MTV documentary that was a 2019 Tribeca Film Festival favorite, is set to air Tuesday night on A&E. What would Gen-X look like without MTV? My last years at home with my parents were spent stealing every moment of TV time I could get just to see my favorite...
Julie Danho | Lounging on the Couch on My 39th Birthday…
Poem Hunter I’m a poem hunter. Always on the lookout for some wonderful words to bring to everyone. Something you haven’t read yet that will help you know yourself better or feel your love deeper. Or maybe it’s joy or sorrow you need to bring to the surface. Your...
#EXTRAOrdinary: Ride the Waves and Share Your Story (Book Review)
#ExtraOrdinary Book Review My copy of #ExtraOrdinary marked with sticky notes. Also, my friendship pins! Book Details Authors: Carleen Matts-Behrends and Lisa Shaffner Sohn Publisher: Wise Ink Creative Publishing Pages: 216 Category/Sub-Category: Women’s Biographies;...
Anne Frank Video Diary: A Vlog for Generation Z
What if Anne Frank had kept a vlog instead of a diary? In search of a new way to reach Generation Z with Anne Frank’s story, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam developed a 15-episode online video series based on Anne's letters to Kitty. The imaginative production was...
Smarsh and Hollis: Two Gen-X Memoirs
I was small for my age and rarely smiled at the camera. Not because I was unhappy, but because I didn't know that little girls were suppose to perform like that I guess. Nobody in my family told me to act dainty. Plus, it was before all the digital screens that show...