Tag: nostalgia

Hearts of Glass Recalibrates the Moral Compass

In a world that often asks us to settle, to compromise, or worse—to look away—Pat Green refuses. Instead, he acts and he writes. He writes about heartache, survival, and the complex human spirit that refuses to break thinly disguised as nostalgia. His latest book, Hearts of Glass: Living in the Real World, is not just…
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March 13, 2025
Storytelling as Resistance: The Power of Our Words

by Jenny S. You know me as Jenny in Pat’s Fem Friday’s. He’s asked me several times to write and I’ve refused. I’m not a writer. As I wept over my non-binary teenager watching people cheer as our president threatened my child’s existence, I thought about Pat’s book (spoiler alert, I’ve read all four drafts).…
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March 6, 2025
Why We Need Indie Bookstores to Resist & Hope!

How have used and indie bookstores survived the winds of change? Do they matter? What can we learn from them? Over the last two weeks I have lost count how many bookstores I have been inside and had conversations with as I get closer to releasing Hearts of Glass Living in the Real World. Over…
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March 3, 2025
Twenty Eight Days of Friendship and Top Three

All the rest have thirty-one, except February, twenty-eight days clear. It is the shortest month of the year. But you, the readers, have shown some fascinating insights based on your clicks and you clicked more this short month than last month. There seems to be a yearning for deeper than surface nostalgia based on the…
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February 28, 2025
How to Celebrate National Retro Day

Happy National Retro Day! We talk about healthy and unhealthy nostalgia at Gen X Watch often. Today is the day to have fun with nostalgia, lean into it, and have a little bit of fun. Why Does National Retro Day Exist? In 2018 Hermelinda A. Aguilar and Robert and Tina Duran founded national retro day.…
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February 27, 2025
You Need Better Friends! Being There

“You need better friends! I’ll be there.” That is what she said to me. It changed my perspective and can change yours. Together we can do the same for others. Do you have the friends you deserve? What do you deserve? Not everyone has a “ride or die”. The have a “ride and bye”. Smoothie…
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February 20, 2025
Joy Division and the New Order of the 80’s!

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announced its 2025 nominees for the Hall of Fame! In the list as one nominee is Joy Division/New Order. This is a bittersweet moment in musical history that not everyone knows about. In Gen X Watch, columnist Jeremy Ritch has written about the importance of not being…
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February 17, 2025
Zen and the Art of Origami Texting (Passing Notes)

Before there was texting there was the art of passing notes. Experts who are teachers and teenagers report that the artform has not completely died, but is on life support. What made the notes special and what can we learn from them? Note Genres There were various types of notes that Gen X passed in…
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February 13, 2025
Almost Famous and Hearts of Glass Intersect

Almost Famous, released in 2000, is a cult classic by Cameron Crowe. In a 2025 rewatch, there was something familiar in the vibe of the movie to the upcoming book, Hearts of Glass Living in the Real World. Why is this movie special and what do these two works have in common? The Movie The…
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February 10, 2025
Hearts of Glass Living in the Real World

Hearts of Glass living in the Real World is almost here! It is the first YA novel in the Hearts of Glass series! 3 books and a series of short stories in an expanded universe based on the Fem Fridays we have written about here at Gen X Watch! It is unique and we need…
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February 6, 2025