Tag: Inspiration

Winona Ryder Breaking Silence in a Tough World

As many fans wait for the 5th and final season of Stranger Things, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is smashing the box office. Winona Ryder is back in the spotlight, but she has never been silent. She impacted Generation X with important lessons about metal health and early adulthood with movies like Girl Interrupted and Reality Bites. This…
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September 13, 2024
Memento Mori and the Masque of the Red Death

2 days ago I had emergency surgery. I’ve had it before and I am going to have it again. It is a reminder that life is to be lived and pain is bittersweet. It is also a reminder of mortality. Since I was ten I have been a fan of Edgar Allan Poe. In grade…
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September 9, 2024
Avril Lavigne’s Breakaway Makes a Difference

Is she the pop punk queen or the mother effing princess? Did she open doors? Is she punk? Is she a hub bridging influences and being an influence? It’s…Complicated. But there is no mistaking that she is more and does things that matter. I recently learned that, like me, our music and culture columnist Jeremy…
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September 6, 2024
In Search of Truth: A Journalist’s Tips for Modern News Consumers

By Ivy Guiler When I first arrived in Washington, D.C., I was filled with excitement, a sense of patriotism, and high expectations for the work I was about to do. A few months and one presidential election later, my excitement transformed into frustration, my patriotism was left jaded, and my high expectations were drowned at…
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September 4, 2024
Music Will Change Your Life: Stranger Things

Season 1 of Stranger Things was the beginning of Gen X Watch. It presented a compelling thought. Some of our nostalgia and trauma are intertwined in a beautiful dance. In season one young Will Byers is missing. He is trapped in the Upside Down, a dark and mysterious realm coexisting with our own. It is…
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September 2, 2024
You Made August Matter For Strong Women!

This month was really a sifting of the wheat from the chaff. There were challenging articles and the readers took to the challenge. It is ever a reminder of how wonderful and powerful our audience is. This was a rare month that we did not have growth, but we missed that by less than 200…
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August 31, 2024
Stormy Daniels and Her Refusal to be Silenced

Does Stormy Daniels have anything in common with Maya Angelou, Cyndi Lauper, and Kathleen Hannah? Does she deserve to be more than a punchline in counterpunches? Is it time for Feminism to move beyond SWERFS? Can a sex worker be a victim of sexual assault? Absolutely! Other Fem Fridays we have written about were strippers…
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August 30, 2024
Dolly Parton And the Choices We Make

Can where we come from shape our views? Is the joke on us? Can our words show truth? Did the choices of others both deter and inspire a young writer? Dolly Parton embodies the best of the yeses to these questions with Country Class and kindness that enlightenment and education doesn’t always provide. This is…
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August 23, 2024
The Important Reflections of Jenny’s Feedback

Last Friday I wrote and published an interview called, “Jenny’s Feedback and Graceful Truth“. It was not only the most popular Fem Friday in over three months, but it also created some comments that have left me moved. Jenny is profoundly deaf. She communicated to me about her experiences as a woman who felt the…
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August 19, 2024
Bjork’s Avant Garde Life and a Kiss Sweeter Than Sugarcubes

Can an artist always experimenting defy definition? Is it possible to mash up various inspirations into one inspiring figure? Can Gen Xers hear the voices of the young and change and grow while still setting a social tone? And can her early concert bind two lost souls into a first kiss? If we are talking…
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August 9, 2024