Time we have wasted on the way

February 23, 2024
Oh, when you were youngDid you question all the answers?Did you envy all the dancers who had all the nerve? ~Graham Nash The other day one of my high school...
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5 Comments · Blog, Inspiration

How we’ve failed to meet the promise

April 18, 2023
failed
While visiting my nephews in Washington, DC I visited the new-ish Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. I wanted to to remember an ex-boyfriend, now dead, who was the...
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6 Comments · Blog, Opinion, Soul School, Spirituality

When the passing of a generational icon hits home

August 28, 2021
cultural icon
I can feel the excitement here, can't you? Connie Hamzy died the other day. If you're a Boomer, like me, you probably know who she is, even if you think you don't....
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San Francisco: the city of love

March 22, 2016
60s-style
It's only fitting that, wandering around San Francisco, the city where the Love Generation took hold, I found stores still rockin' the 60s vibe. Yes, yes, I know,...
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19 Comments · Blog, Travel

My Baby Boomer test

November 30, 2015
Baby-Boomer-test
Flush with the success of my far superior Alzheimer’s test not too long ago, I simply had to devise a test for Baby Boomers to assess their knowledge of our cultural...
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Nothing stays the same

May 20, 2015
Nothing stays the same, and sometimes, that makes us sad.  In that vein, we said goodbye this week to a series that was almost universally loved for its pitch-perfect...
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29 Comments · Blog, Stylin'

In the future, remembering days past

May 15, 2015
It was 1967 and I was 16 years old when I heard the opening lines of Nights in White Satin. And then, the heavily orchestrated music of the Moody Blues began: Nights...
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Throwback to the 1960s

March 26, 2015
Buick has reinvented itself now, but back in the day, there was no better throwback than a 1960s Buick. Note the gear shift on the steering column. The narrow, uncovered...
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40 Comments · Blog, Stylin'

An evening of Sixties nostalgia

September 23, 2014
If I said love beads, The Pill, Vietnam the Space Race, white boots and hippies, you'd know immediately what I was talking about. Sixties nostalgia. Actually, all I'd...
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The Sixties: maybe we saw too much

August 20, 2014
Watching the CNN series on The Sixties, I wasn't surprised that an entire two-hour episode was devoted to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I've seen so...
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