I have so much fun with the sort-of-daily photo on Facebook, but I often forget to cross-post them here! Earlier this morning I posted a picture of Field Day 1979 and someone cleaned the photo up a bit. I am not a fan of editing vernacular photos but I love what Chase did with this picture. It...
I am part of a private online group of writers publishing journal entries every day during the month of June. [A Journal Entry, 6.3.21] Happiest Days During the pandemic, I had some of the happiest days of my life. Starting in March 2020, Robert and the kids were home all day long with no place...
This 1990s prom dress is too 1990s for the 1990s. I purchased the original recently for my collection. I paid around $15, so if you swipe it and put in on your wildly famous 1980s Instagram account, please cite the photographer and this blog, https://www.jenx67.com/1990s-prom-dress. Thank you so...
The Holderness Family has created a new Gen-X anthem. The part at the end about collect calling? All true. LOL.
It was such a long winter. One that began on March 13, 2020, and ended just the other day. I spent two springs, a summer, fall, and winter basically indoors. I wonder if I look younger than I would have had there not been a pandemic. I’ve missed the sun. Here are some beautiful pictures of...
We were…waiting on a miracle Tryna find ourselves in the winter snow –Ed Sheeran, 2020 Everest 78 In 1978, Pierre Mazeaud became the first Frenchman to climb Mount Everest. The event was widely celebrated throughout France and Western Europe, evidenced by the branded sweater on the...
🙏 I’m still awestruck by the Pray As You God podcast. After two years, I am still awestruck by the Pray As You God podcast. I sometimes listen to each episode three times in a day. Today’s episode went straight to my broken heart. And, all our hearts are broken right now. Am I right? I...
Today, Lifetouch, a national school photography provider, celebrates the second annual National School Picture Day, an opportunity to relive and celebrate school pictures, from bowl cuts to mohawks, neon to flannel. (Especially the neon and flannel, Xers.) This commemoration is all the reason I...
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 web series on...
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 music videos: Nikita by Elton...
Here’s a picture of me (front left) with some high school friends, my Care Bears folder (Tenderheart Bear lol), a mullet 😆, history textbook and a preppy crewneck sweater, 1983. It’s the only known photo of me with books and friends (ha!) and therefore perfect for this big...
Pink and Purple Sunset | Photo by Jennifer, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Submissions are now being accepted for level:deepsouth, an online anthology that documents the experiences of Generation X in the Deep South during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. The writer, editor and curator is Foster Dickson who lives...
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