Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.
Hey, Mom! The Explanation.
Here's the permanent dedicated link to my first Hey, Mom! post and the explanation of the feature it contains.
A Sense of Doubt blog post #4207 - GEN X - I am not a Boomer; I am a Gen Xer - Music Monday 2608.24
A Sense of Doubt blog post #4207 - GEN X - I am not a Boomer; I am a Gen Xer - Music Monday 2608.24
I have been engaged in debates about my generation.
I have never felt that I fit in with BOOMERS. After all, the Baby Boom was a post-World War Two population explosion of veterans returning from the war and starting families. My father was not a WWII vet. My paternal Grandfather was but not my Dad.
My parents were ten and nine years old at the end of WWII; they married in 1958. I was born in 1962, during the Kennedy era, that's seventeen years after WWII ended.
I am Gen X. I identify with EVERY cultural marker of Generation X and none of the cultural markers of the Baby Boomers.
Just like I didn't fit in with my original class of 1980, graduating high school or entering college, and identified completely with the next college class, graduating in 1985. And so I graduated with them.
Accepting arbitrary decisions of so called experts divisions of generation markers as indisputable law is fatuous.
There's actually quite a lot of debate about the years of the Baby Boomers and the years of Generation X as I copy below from Wikipedia. Regardless, I hold to Strauss and Howe as well as Gordinier (whose book I have read) that puts Gen X between 1961 and 1981.
Even more interesting is David Foot's separation of Gen X to 1960-1966 and the "Bust" generation from 1967-1979.
Nevertheless, I consider myself Gen X, and I will die on this hill against anyone trying to argue otherwise.
Also, it's Music Monday, so I made a mix for Gen X.
It's 1980s and 1990s music with only some Nick Drake (late 1960s and very early 1970s before his death in 1974) and a Beatles cover of "Tomorrow Never Knows" (1966) as the only pre-1980s or even 1990s selections.
On the basis of the time it takes for a generation to mature, U.S. authors William Strauss and Neil Howe define Generation X as those born between 1961 and 1981 in their 1991 book titled Generations, and differentiate the cohort into an early and late wave.[48]Jeff Gordinier, in his 2008 book X Saves the World, include those born between 1961 and 1977 but possibly as late as 1980.[9] George Masnick of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies puts this generation in the time-frame of 1965 to 1984, in order to satisfy the premise that boomers, Xers, and millennials "cover equal 20-year age spans".[44] In 2004, journalist J. Markert also acknowledged the 20-year increments but goes one step further and subdivides the generation into two 10-year cohorts with early and later members of the generation. The first begins in 1966 and ends in 1975 and the second begins in 1976 and ends in 1985; this thinking is applied to each generation (Silent, boomers, Gen X, millennials, etc.).[49]
Based on external events of historical importance, Schewe and Noble in 2002 argue that a cohort is formed against significant milestones and can be any length of time. Against this logic, Generation X begins in 1966 and ends in 1976, with those born between 1955 and 1965 being labelled as "trailing-edge boomers".[50]
The 1994 book Baby Busters: The Disillusioned Generation by George Barna refers to those born 1965–1983 as the "baby busters" generation rather than as Generation X.[51]
In Canada, professor David Foot describes Generation X as late boomers and includes those born between 1960 and 1966, whilst the "Bust Generation", those born between 1967 and 1979, is considered altogether a separate generation, in his 1996 book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift.[52][53]
I originally created this post before Dad died - on this date - 2409.07 - 10:10
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2608.24 - 10:10
- Days ago: MOM = 4071 days ago & DAD = 725 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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