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Dear Google...A Wish List For Blogger, If I May...

Google, why hast thou forsaken us? So it's pretty well known that Google has not been devoting that much dev time to Blogger in recent y...
Okay Fine, I'll Be On Facebook If Everyone I've Ever Met Is On Facebook

I just posted this on Facebook: Hi guys. I just now created a FACEBOOK PAGE for my blog , Diary of a Low Budget Superhero. It would mean a l...
My Super-Talented Family Members: Joe "onlyone" Kowalski (Musician/Actor/Filmmaker)

My husband is Joe Kowalski , an imaginative Gen X polymath and among the most talented people I know. I learned the term "polymath...
To Blog or Not To Blog (And If So, Where?): A Round-up of blogging platforms

There has been some talk on Facebook and Reddit in recent weeks about blogging--whether it's still relevant, who is doing it, and what ...
Would You Look At The Way This Gen X Reddit MOD Talked To Me?

So you know my last post, about latchkey kids ? I made the mistake of posting it to the Gen X subreddit, with a link back to the blog, witho...
Throwing Back to 1983: Culture Club

Culture Club got so popular so fast that I needed to rouse myself from my summer of 2016 grim languor and actually do research. Billboard...
ACOSTA FAMILY: Are these girls okay?

When I typed "Acosta..." into Google, the auto-fill came up with "...family." That means I'm not the only one who we...
The Apartment Hunt Continues (OMG THIS SHOWER CURTAIN LOL)

So. We think we might have found a place, but it's been like almost two weeks and no word back about our application. I don't know ...
Gen X: The Era of the "Latchkey Kid"

By today's standards, childcare in the 70s and 80s would have gotten our parents arrested. I watch a lot of "body cam" police ...
My Super-Talented Family Members: Michael Lombardi (Actor/Musician)

Photo from IMDB My brother Michael Lombardi (different fathers) is a handsome, talented actor. The first time I realized it for real, I...

The Star Wars Holiday Special : Merry Gen X'mas

Long ago in a galaxy we 40-somethings refer to as "childhood," we built a cherry Kool-Aid world with rad high tech toys like ...
ACOSTA FAMILY: Are these girls okay?

When I typed "Acosta..." into Google, the auto-fill came up with "...family." That means I'm not the only one who we...
Never Forget Who Broke That Egg: The Triumph of Marcia Brady

One of my buddies confided that he can't stand it when his other single friends goad him into going "tom-catting around" on ...
To Blog or Not To Blog (And If So, Where?): A Round-up of blogging platforms

There has been some talk on Facebook and Reddit in recent weeks about blogging--whether it's still relevant, who is doing it, and what ...
Losing Your Religion? Consider an Upgrade!

A Short Primer for the Spiritually Conflicted If your thousands-of-years-old religion's definition of "dec...
Where Is Lexi Kahn?

No matter how much I try to stop ruminating, there come the thoughts again. Why didn't I do this, why did I pick that, why have I mad...
Music Makers and Dreamers of Dreams

When I was 24 years old, I found it necessary to retract and re-submit my * theory about musicians and just what the hell is their deal a...
Me and the Loony Bin

Self-Portrait The first time I went into the mental hospital was in early 2014. I'd been fired from my job at the end of Nove...
American Borer Story: The Blair Witch Project Turns 15

Fifteen years and a whole bunch of copycats later, I still say that it's a miracle we ever heard of The Blair Witch Project . ...

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