I came across a quote the other day that stuck with me: "The strangest part of nostalgia is how ordinary those days felt when you were living them." I've thought about that quote more than once since reading it. Maybe…
Why your boomer parents keep defending instead of hearing you, and how to break the stalemate. One of the most painful things about being an adult child is realizing that your parents may never become the people you keep hoping…
“It also made most of us hella adaptable because no standard stayed around for long.” Millennials born in the early ’80s may have hit the sweet spot between modern technology and everyday life. The key? It was all about learning to…
Not everyone had the “latchkey kid” experience that those with Boomer parents did. Most of us have a pretty good sense of who we think Gen Xers are and how they were raised: the latchkey kids who raised themselves, drank…
Written on Nov 05, 2026 Gen X parents did the best they could with the tools and knowledge they had. After all, they were the first generation raising kids who were digital natives in a time of unprecedented social change. Looking back…
By Jaycee Gudoy | Published 34 seconds ago Nobody in the 1960s or 1970s thought they were being reckless. They were following the advice of doctors, the design of the era, and the common sense of the neighborhood. Most of it was simply how…
There is a lot of pressure to have things sorted by the time you reach your thirties. You should know what you want from life, have a good idea of where you’re going and, ideally, have made some of the…
Joining the dots between acid house and retirement, the Spice Girls and the menopause, Pac-Man and mortgage rates - Generation Remix: Meet gen X in midlife explores what happened to the generation that once defined youth culture in middle age. Guardian…
Written on Nov 05, 2026 Technology has changed the way we operate, and people born before 1995 were right on the brink of the most major shift. Many of the changes didn’t become popular right away, so people spent plenty of their time…
Regional Australians in their 80s and older are more likely to feel highly satisfied with life than their younger counterparts, while Millennials have emerged as the least satisfied generation. A picture of generational differences - and similarities - has emerged with the release…
Career pivots, sandwich caregiving, community leadership, and midlife health.
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