Blog Series Highlights Lost Generation Analogy
Chloe kicks off her series on The Last Lost Generation over on her blog, Light From A Pixel. Please hop over and check it out. It’s a beautiful piece. This is a year-long series she’s created, so be...
View ArticleHippie Parents: Anecdotal Evidence of Generation X (Daily Photo)
The Daily Photo is an opportunity to visit the stories and experiences of Generation X through slides, videos and pictures. In this exercise, the smallest details, such as a reference to a pack of...
View ArticleDressed For Church: Gen X Kids vs. Baby Boomer Kids
These two photos provide a nice comparison and contrast between Gen-Xers and Baby Boomers as we all appeared when dressed for church. The first photo is an original 35 mm slide image that was taken in...
View ArticleGrowing Up In The Suburbs: A Teen’s Memoirs of Life in the 1970s
“. . . the late 1970s suburbia . . . young kids full of angst and hormones – what are they to do? I’ll give you a hint – it WASN’T bowling. Roller skating yes, bowling NO. Bowling was for the old man,...
View ArticleBarry Rich Photo Archive Features the Splendid History of Gen-Xers in the...
Over the years, I’ve discovered some fabulous online photo archives. Among my favorites are those that feature scanned images from the last four decades of the 20th Century. I especially love the ones...
View ArticleWe Are Not The Lost Generation: The Gen X Essay That Went Viral Before We...
The following essay about Generation X, We Are Not A Lost Generation, was written during the late 1990s. It was first circulated via email and then later posted to numerous blogs and websites. The...
View ArticleAging and Gen X: Study Reveals Xers Want To Live Past 90
Slackers Aging: The generation that’s been perpetually too young and old at the same time faces the stress of aging. Bruce Springsteen, Madonna Way before Nirvana There was U2 and Blondie And music...
View ArticleBest of Generation X Tweets, News Links, Blog Posts
The hallmark of this blog has always been an unfolding of the Generation X narrative. Part of my intention is to maintain a tiny space on the Internet where evidence of Gen X society can be preserved —...
View ArticleBridgy’s Nadia Comaneci Medal (We’ve Come A Long Way, Folks)
All you Gen-Xers out there who watched Nadia Comaneci score perfect 10s at the 1976 Olympics will appreciate the amusing irony of this picture. It’s my daughter Bridgy wearing the gymnastics medal she...
View ArticleKellyanne Conway on Generation X
Kellyanne Conway talks about her “operating principle” as a Gen-Xer in a recent Question and Answer in the Washington Post: “My father left when I was very young. I didn’t meet him until I was 12 or...
View ArticleJustice For Etan Patz, First Missing Kid on a Milk Carton
Etan Patz‘s killer was finally convicted yesterday. The 6-year-old boy went missing on May 25, 1979, after he left home to catch the school bus. The bus stop was just two blocks from the family’s...
View ArticleGen X: The Work Hard, Play Hard Generation
An Australian newspaper, The Independent, rpublished an article about Generation X: In the war between millennials and baby boomers we have forgotten about the work-hard, play-hard Generation X. It has...
View ArticleTiffanie Dark’s Gen X Memoir: Now We Are 40, Whatever Happened To Generation X?
Tiffanie Darke, a British writer, has penned a new memoir, Now We Are 40: Whatever Happened To Generation X? Published by Harper Collins, the book play mostly to a British audience, highlighting...
View ArticleWinter in Mt. Upton, New York (Daily Gen X Photo)
This picture of two first-wave Gen-Xers was taken in 1969 in Mt. Upton, New York. I chose it for the Daily Gen X Photo because high quality winter photos from this era are hard to come by and I can...
View ArticleKurt Cobain Should Have Turned 50 Today.
Today, Kurt Cobain should have turned 50. His daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, posted the following tribute to her late father on Instagram. February 20th 2017. Happy Birthday. A post shared by Frances...
View Article8 Steps to Loving Your Child Through Purposeful Discipline
The following is a guest post by Dr. Domenick Maglio An undisciplined child typically develops destructive behavioral patterns that hurt him or her as well as others. On the other hand, a disciplined...
View ArticleWhat Possessions Xers, Boomers, Millennials Value Most (Infographic)
If you could keep only one thing you own, what would it be? Allstate Insurance Company asked more than 1,000 U.S. adults about their belongings and how they feel about them. They found that people...
View ArticleWhen Generation X Takes Over Politics
Quantumrun has a podcast that focuses on the trends and innovations that will shape our world over the next two decades. Their latest episode is When Generation X Takes Over Politics, which reminds me...
View ArticlePan Am Terrorist Attack: A Millennial Honors Syracuse Student Killed in 1988
Last year, I promised to write about each of the 35 Syracuse college students who died in the Pan Am terrorist attack on December 21, 1988. Unfortunately, life has a way of getting in the way of all my...
View ArticleHow We Change Time (Part 1)
by Chloe Koffas, Light From A Pixel How We Change Time When you are a child who is only five or six years old, you excitedly and impatiently wait for the celebration of your birthday or an upcoming...
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