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...
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...
This collection of 25 cultural artifacts isn’t just a catalog of things Generation X once owned. It’s a reflection of who we were and how we lived, primarily through music and communication. There are hundreds of other artifacts I didn't list including movies and...
David Abercrombie was born in 1965 and died in 1994. You can read a two-part tribute to him on Instagram. Click here and here.To Tommy, With Love By the time Tommy died of AIDS-related complications, he'd been estranged from most of the community we once shared for...
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...
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...
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,...
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...