🙏 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...
Rainbow Connection
Guest Post by Chloe Koffas The following blog post is from regular contribute Chloe Koffas. It first appeared on her blog, Light From A Pixel. Republished with permission from the author. Rainbow Connection For a short time, I lived in a small town in New Mexico...
Marvelous Memories Blogger Pens, “Gen-Xer In Quarantine”
Guest Post by Amy The following post was written by one terrific gal who has been creating excellent content for Generation X for a long time! Amy is such a nice person and so talented! She runs the popular Marvelous Memories Facebook page, and the Marvelous Memories...
The Lost Generation of High School Athletes
In the late 1980s, the Illinois High School Sports Association created a file about the growing lack of interest in high school sports like basketball, football, and baseball. Struggling to understand the empty stadiums and gymnasiums, they labeled the folder The Lost...
Amulet for Gen Z: Latchkey Memoir
The following post, The Amulet for Generation Z, was originally a commentary about some unfortunate events that occurred during my latchkey childhood. Specifically, childhood sexual assault. After it aired a friend sent me this quote from Maya Angelou: As soon as...
5 Forgotten Protests of Generation X
The Children's March For Survival, 1972 On March 25, 1972, 30,000 people, most of them African-American school children, gathered on the streets of Washington D.C. to protest welfare reforms. The protest was called the Children's March for Survival. The kids...
Playground Sexual Harassment in the 1970s: A Story About Mary*
June 23, 2009 - Some stories take a long time to tell. This one about playground sexual harassment at school is one of them. I wrote it down in 2008 for my daughters, and for Mary*, wherever she is. In 2005, on her fourth day on the job, Jamie Lee Jones, a young...
The Latchkey Generation is Generation X
For the Latchkey Generation When happily ever after fails and we’ve been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers dwell on small details Since daddy had to fly-- Don Henley’s End of the Innocence, 1989 Generation X: The Latchkey Generation According to Douglas...
Locked In The Bathroom: A Brief Latchkey Memoir
It's estimated that more than 40 percent of Generation Xers (those born between 1961 and 1981, according to Neil Howe and William Strauss, the esteemed authors of Generations), were latchkey kids. I came across the blog of a Baby Boomer the other day, Finding Pam. The...