What The World Needs Now IS For This Judy Blume Book to Come to Life
“Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” The Movie Is Coming — and Millions of MidLife Women Are Here for It How many Gen X girls like me...
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WHO IS GENERATION X?
We are sandwiched between 80 million Baby Boomers & 78 million Millennials. Born 1965 - 1980, we have just 46 million members. Small, but mighty!
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Erin Mantz
- Dec 29, 2022
- 1 min
The work spouse is dead
The “Work Spouse” has gone the way of water cooler chitchat, daily coffee runs with coworkers, and spontaneous commiseration. And that...
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Erin Mantz
- Nov 16, 2022
- 2 min
Book review: In light of recent events, by amy klinger
I don’t read novels often. I guess I am drawn more to non-fiction, because I feel like I need to be able to walk away with some learning...
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Erin Mantz
- Aug 10, 2022
- 3 min
What Olivia Newton-John Gave Generation X
Grease was the word, but it’s "Sandy" we heard. Olivia Newton-John helped Generation X believe. In the possibility of reinventing...
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Erin Mantz
- Jul 26, 2022
- 2 min
internship insights from a gen x girl
Maybe some things don't change across the decades. I found a photo (Polaroid of course) from my college internship today. WLS-TV (ABC)...
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Erin Mantz
- Jul 22, 2022
- 1 min
Love's Baby Soft - The Film!
If growing up in the '70s and '80s had a scent, it would be Love's Baby Soft. And now a special film is bringing us back to those...
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Erin Mantz
- Jul 11, 2022
- 1 min
Tomorrow Night, 7/12, at 8pm ET! Love's Baby Soft Film Behind The Scenes
If growing up in the '70s and '80s had a scent, it would be Love's Baby Soft. And now a special film brings us back to those amazing...
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Erin Mantz
- Apr 30, 2022
- 3 min
tv characters I love to hate...but i'm not supposed to
I hate most of the TV characters I watch, yet I can't stop watching. Why? The older I get, the more I find myself hating on most of the...
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Erin Mantz
- Apr 16, 2022
- 3 min
book review - kids in america: a gen x reckoning
An engaging book and revealing look at Generation X that goes behind the nostalgia and makes us wonder... how did we turn out so well?...
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Erin Mantz
- Apr 3, 2022
- 4 min
a gen x girl goes to italy...
Top Five Observations From My Trip I was a little hesitant to plan a trip alone to Italy to visit my oldest son, a college junior who’s...
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Erin Mantz
- Mar 20, 2022
- 2 min
X says, z says
A new monthly series by Gen X Girls Grow Up Just how much do the decades and times we grew up in shape our perspectives and beliefs? How...
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Erin Mantz
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
book review: the pandemic midlife crisis - gen x women on the brink
As a Gen X woman living in a strange, “middle age” period, in a pandemic, I knew I wasn't alone. But I wasn’t sure how much I would be...
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Erin Mantz
- Jan 30, 2022
- 1 min
HBO's "Euphoria" and Me
I’m the Same Generation as the Characters in And Just Like That. Why Would I Rather Watch Euphoria? These high school kids feel...
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Erin Mantz
- Jan 29, 2022
- 1 min
gen x girls giveaway! the "80's girl candle"
Smell Love's Baby Soft again! Don't miss the "80's Girl Candle" giveaway, happening on my Gen X Girls Grow Up Facebook page through 10pm...
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Erin Mantz
- Nov 29, 2021
- 1 min
My latest post on the reveler blog: Give us the memories of our pop culture moments
Forty years ago, thousands of Gen X girls across the country got their moms to call them into school “sick,” and parked themselves in...
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Erin Mantz
- Oct 20, 2021
- 1 min
Ready for '80s trivia night?
Join me on Sunday night, October 24 at 8pm Eastern as I host our first '80's Trivia Night - Movies & Music virtual gathering on Hello...
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Erin Mantz
- Oct 10, 2021
- 1 min
A Millennial/GenX-er/Boomer Mentoring Mash up!
This is such a cool premise and platform I recently learned about! Early in her career, CIRKEL Founder Charlotte Japp noticed a huge gap...
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Erin Mantz
- Jul 24, 2021
- 2 min
Five Things Generation X Wishes Millennials and Gen Z understood
In response to a recent BuzzFeed piece, "Millennials Are Sharing The Things They Wish Older Generations Understood, And It's Kind Of...
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Erin Mantz
- Jul 23, 2021
- 1 min
Go-Go's Giveaway!
A Go-Go's GIVEAWAY for Gen X Girls! Win a copy of the Go-Go's Documentary DVD. To enter, head over to the Gen X Girls Facebook page and...
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Erin Mantz
- Jun 5, 2021
- 2 min
Gen X Girls Speaks Out in NBC News "THINK"
Here's my Letter to the Editor in NBC News THINK's newsletter today, June 5, in response to: We were supposed to be over the 1980s by...
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