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…

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. …

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. …

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. …

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

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…

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…

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…

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…