I was groundedWhile you filled the skiesI was dumbfounded by truthsYou cut through liesI saw the rain-dirty valleyYou saw BrigadoonI saw the crescentYou saw the whole of the moon The Waterboys, 1985My wonderful Gen Z son. We sacrificed much of our retirement savings...
Welcome to the latest Gen X Newsletter, cross-published on the Gen X Substack.The Committee Names Gen-Xer of the Month Mr. Tom Ward, Unintentional Style Icon, is the only influencer Gen X actually trusts. Recently featured in People, the 7th-grade Nebraska history...
Every year brings a new Word of the Year, a snapshot of how language is shifting in real time. For 2025, Dictionary.com has selected 67 (or, depending on who you ask, 6-7 or 6 7). A number, not a word, drawn from the fast-moving churn of internet slang and youth...
Michelle Carey of Midwest City goes through the final paperwork as her Army National Guard unit prepares to participate in Operation Desert Shield.Argo, Jim. [Photograph 2012.201.B0124.0308], photograph, September 20, 1990;...
Stop Saying Gen X is Small and Forgotten. It's Not True.Stop Saying Gen X is Small and Forgotten. It's Not True.Don't you try and pretendIt's my feeling we'll win in the end...—Don't You Forget About Me, (Simple Minds, 1985)It's time to stop saying Generation X is...
This month's theme is Hippie ParentsI love to design and had a lot of fun putting together this old school, 1990s-style zine. I'm calling it GenXine. =) If you enjoy my work, please share it. If you have trouble viewing the publication as a flip book, you can view it...
At 17, I’d never heard of T. Boone Pickens or Carl Icahn, but overnight, my teenage fears grew the way they did in springtime when tornadoes tore through nearby towns, ripping roofs off houses and lives off their foundations.In 1985, the Youngest Gen-Xers...
© 2025 The Jennifer Chronicles. All rights reserved.What Are Micro Generations? I want to find something I’ve wanted all along / Somewhere I belong. (Somewhere I Belong, Linkin Park, 2003) Micro generations are narrow age bands that fall between the generational lines...
Why Martino’s Vintage L.A. Matters More Than Ever I was born in Boyle Heights in 1967, when East Los Angeles was still a city of pocket-sized bungalows, backyard tamale steamers, and local movie houses that glowed like lanterns at dusk. This was before the open-air...
Acalanes Class of 1980, Lafayette, CA., looking quite preppy and light years from the groovy 1970s. These folks were born 1962-1963.© 2025 The Jennifer Chronicles: Are You There, God? It's Me, Generation X. All rights reserved. This content is the intellectual...
How can you mend this broken man?How can a loser ever win?Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again...(The Bee Gees, 1971)More and more, the data is pointing to something many of us have felt for years: Generation X is dying way too young. Of the...
Proprietor’s Note Note: This post first appeared on the Generation X Newsletter on Subtack. What I loved about Elizabeth Wurtzel’s writing, especially Prozac Nation (1994), was her electric ability to write what was happening as it was happening. She didn’t wait for...