Month: May 2024
-
The Breakfast Club Library Confessions and Beautiful Tribes
Does The Breakfast Club have insights we still need? Did belonging to a club or team help many of us find friends? Is it okay that these tribes were imperfect and the same as other tribes? Memorial for a Friend Last weekend I was at a memorial for a dear friend from high school who…
-
Being Pretty in Pink And How Not to Drown
Name Redacted I recently interviewed one of the most popular women we’ve written about in Fem Fridays. You first met Heather in my Madonna Piece, “When Material Girls Make a Rule.” Her essence and mentions of her were in other stories, but more popular than the Fem Fridays is Heather’s interview. In the interview Heather…
-
Limited Time and the Unspoken Truths
Is Gen X running out of time? Do we need to speak the unspoken while there is still time? Yes. The Memorial Last night I participated in a memorial for the dearest of friends. Her name was Erika and I wrote about her in a poignant article in the early days of Gen X Watch.…
-
The Doom or Destiny of the Ladies Tea Party
Are women more powerful together? Is it punk to have tea parties and collaborations? Did a young man need weeds to disrupt the manicured lawn of religion? Did trauma take a toll? Did the weeds bring life back? Yes. The Mad Punk Ladies Tea Party At the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, London a very…
-
Celebrating April’s Rad Growth With a Casey Kasem Style Countdown
Thank you to every reader, Patreon, and contributing columnist. I look at what has happened this last month and I am completely blown away! Any and all goals my team and I set were crushed! In a time where it is more difficult than ever for columnists and audiences to connect in the AI driven…
Recent Posts
- Chrissie Hynde Taught Me How to Listen
- Surviving the Cold War (Again): A Gen Xer’s Guide
- Generational Fan Fusion Heals My Heart of Glass IRL
- Sample Chapter of Hearts of Glass & An Open Heart
- Gloria Estefan Taught Us How to Come Out of the Dark
Tags
1980's 1980s abuse addiction art breakfast club cassie trilogy cold war cyndi lauper david bowie death domestic violence erika Fem Friday feminism feminist friendship GenX gen z hearts of glass helping others history HOG Inspiration jeremy ritch joan jett lgbt lgbtq lgbtqia+ madonna mental health miami vice music News nostalgia pride rap sexism suicide swatch Then and now tina turner trauma watch yearbook
Comments
i feel like you described our mall in eugene oregon in the 80s! I wish I had kept all of…
Powerful, beautiful and personal thank you! I’m an atheist and child sa survivor. Religion is this world’s evil imo.