“I Question America”

I have written here before about the Greatest Generation, born between about 1909 and 1929 and celebrated for enduring the Continue reading →

#Tech #Support

During my long-ago childhood I could never have imagined that a phone—a heavy, stable black object—would become a traveling computer Continue reading →

On Food: From Tuna Fish Casserole to the Age of Arugula

I have long believed that the opening salvo of second-wave feminism was fired in 1960, several years ahead of its Continue reading →

P.S. Not So Silent

Memory can take you in unexpected directions. I wrote recently about student summer travel in the 1950s, and after the Continue reading →

Generations

My generation, born between 1928 and 1945, was identified as Silent when many of us were still too young to Continue reading →

Once Upon a Time

In 1955, right out of college, I found one of those jobs in publishing so dear to history and English Continue reading →

In & Out: The Generations Gap

My granddaughter wants pajama pants for her birthday. That sounds OK, but I remember giving her some fairly recently, maybe Continue reading →

“Madly for Adlai”

I cast my first vote for Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and worked in his campaign, knocking on doors, stuffing envelopes, Continue reading →