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Real Men Didn’t Eat Quiche in the 70s

They ate granola. And yogurt. — Or “eggs are for eggheads,” they said Okay, before you blast me for my anachronistic assertion about culinary preferences a few decades ago, I am very well aware that the popular book — “ Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche “ — was actually published in 1982. That being said, the lead-up to this societal pronouncement was brewing…

Gen X

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Real Men Didn’t Eat Quiche in the 70s
Real Men Didn’t Eat Quiche in the 70s
Gen X

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ILLUMINATION

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Leaving on a Jet Plane

I know we won’t go back again — There was a time when we used to dress up to travel. Heck, we dressed up to walk to the store. Sweat pants were not an option. When my childhood travel memories enter my mind, they are inevitably filled with images of being purposefully dressed up by my mother in…

Travel

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Leaving on a Jet Plane
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Travel

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Life, Unvarnished.

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7 Life Lessons I Realized in Middle Age

Simple advice that I wish I knew in my 20s — Dreams of time travel As a woman of a certain age, it’s easy to look back over my life and think about the mistakes that I’ve made. Decades of trial and error, achievements and disappointments have coloured my perspectives on a range of real-life experiences. …

Life Lessons

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7 Life Lessons I Realized in Middle Age
7 Life Lessons I Realized in Middle Age
Life Lessons

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Fanfare

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The Flintstones and Other 60s Shows: I Have Questions

Why was the family holding a car frame while running? — The “Modern Stone-Age Family” elicits many questions On the heels of The Brady Bunch and Other ’70s Shows: I Have Questions, it became crystal clear that I wasn’t the only one who needed answers. …

Society

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The Flintstones and Other 60s Shows: I Have Questions
The Flintstones and Other 60s Shows: I Have Questions
Society

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The Startup

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You Don’t Need A Side Hustle. Period.

Why following the popular trend may be more trouble than it’s worth — Suddenly, everyone has to have one It came out of nowhere. Then seemingly, this term — “side hustle” — was everywhere. It was the must have endeavour for any determined and ambitious worker. …

Business

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You Don’t Need A Side Hustle. Period.
You Don’t Need A Side Hustle. Period.
Business

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Haiku World 575

·Sep 7

Latchkey Living

A Haiku — I let myself in With strangers lurking around; I made it home safe. Brand New Key(s) And there were many…medium.com

Gen X

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Latchkey Living
Latchkey Living
Gen X

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Life, Unvarnished.

·Jul 6

Older and Wiser?

Perhaps. Or maybe it was just the fashion that aged us. — Why did people in the past look older? Did people in the past look older? They did. Apples to apples, age to age, a direct and equal comparison between two people from different eras reveals that indeed — our predecessors looked much more long in the tooth than we do now (fortunately). Was it the non-4k resolution of…

Genx

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Older and Wiser?
Older and Wiser?
Genx

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Life, Unvarnished.

·Jun 22

Whatever Happened to The Bermuda Triangle?

And when did it become safe to fly over it again? — If you were a kid or an adult in the 1970s, it’s very likely that you were petrified to get on a plane. Why? Because of the strange and frightening stories related to the Bermuda Triangle — stories that saturated news coverage almost daily. News of what seemed to be…

1970s

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Whatever Happened to The Bermuda Triangle?
Whatever Happened to The Bermuda Triangle?
1970s

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Life, Unvarnished.

·Apr 5

A Losing Streak

Remember? Or, how could you forget? — Naked and Unafraid Oh, the horror! The audience was mortified every time it happened. A naked person — or persons — unexpectedly appeared out of nowhere, to the surprise of the unwitting participants of this event. “Streaking” as it was labeled, was perhaps the most ridiculous of fads that we Gen-Xers had to…

Generation X

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A Losing Streak
A Losing Streak
Generation X

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Life, Unvarnished.

·Dec 14, 2022

Brand New Key(s)

And there were many… — Shiny and new So many of us had them. You know, the chain around our necks, holding the most-important item required to end a long day at school. Or perhaps your particular jam was “freestyle,” meaning you’d carelessly throw it in your pocket, your knapsack or any other place that it could immediately…

Generation X

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Brand New Key(s)
Brand New Key(s)
Generation X

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Samantha Kemp-Jackson

Samantha Kemp-Jackson

1K Followers

Writer, Media Commentator, Podcaster and overall opinionated individual. I live in the past A. Lot. Follow me on Substack: LivingInThePast.Substack.Com

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