HeyJaredMusings from the Midsection
If you are a person who often finds themself saying, "remember when?" and also "How were the 80s FORTY years ago?" then the Midsection is the place for you Join me for a stroll down memory lane, some GenX musings, and even a bit of fiction.
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Come aboard, (opens the original)
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I’m ba-ack. (Do you get the reference? Then you are in the right place!)<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="440" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rD4m!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.
GenX Gym class (opens the original)
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The last few weeks’ Musing have touched on just enough memories of strange elementary and high school gym class activities and now I can’t stop thinking about them. How bizarre they were and how they had not one thing at all to do with physical fitness.We’ve already talked about square dancing and dodge ball. Neither of which required any sort of fitness, and barely if any physical activity-maybe that’s why we got so workout crazy in the 80s? We had ground to make up.<a class="image-link image2
People are People (opens the original)
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Last week’s Musing focused on GenX’s collective spirit of helping each other out. (If you haven’t had a chance to read it, you can, right here). It was very kumbaya, both the Musing and the mentality of the generation. But that’s not to say we didn’t have our fair bit of competitiveness in our upbringing.We did, it was just a bit less divisive than whatever this is we are currently living through.This purposeful division.We were a generation who had to endure picking teams in gym class. As a sel
I'd like to teach the world to sing (opens the original)
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Recently, Costco, of all places, set off a women-of-a-certain-age/GenX earthquake by releasing three versions of the iconic ESPRIT sweatshirt. The run on that store had the potential to be compared to the long-fabled Cabbage Patch Christmas mayhem of 1983. Except we’re all way too nostalgic now. <div
All She Wants to do is Dance (opens the original)
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Saturday was my niece’s dreamy, beautiful, magical wedding! And while each and every detail made it perfect, the grand finale, the dance party, was the cherry on top. And yes, that’s what it was called on the invitation—there was no mistaking what the intent was for that portion of the festivities.They had an old school DJ, with RECORD ALBUMS. So, while like many other weddings you could request songs you wanted to hear when you RSVP’d, there was no club remix. No classic song ruined by a boomin
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