Last week, I wrote about inflation. Riveting stuff, I know. However, in the post I twice used the phrase, “When I was your age…”, a line that has been used by older generations the world over to express, often with disdain, how the times have changed. Then, it hit me like a double shot of[…]
In the spring of 1998, during peak puberty, I won an all-expenses paid trip to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Atlanta, GA. I was so excited that it made Charlee Buckett’s “golden ticket” moment in Willy Wonka seem as basic as winning a small fry on the McDonald’s peel-off Monopoly game. After my parents’[…]
The Millennial Generation is diversely one. I was reading an article on POPSUGAR titled Why Early-’80s Babies Are Different Than Other Millennials. I found the article quite amusing and relatable, since I am on the older end of the Millennial spectrum. It examines the segment that is arguably wedged between Gen X and Millennial (the premature-Xer or[…]