I graduated from high school at a time when it seemed everyone, male or female, was trying very hard to look like Cher. I remember very well a class where our teacher was explaining how things come into fashion and then disappear, to be laughed at by the next generation. One of my serious-mindedContinue reading “Hobbled”
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More Worries
We were discussing faded fads in our last column, considering those phenomena that blazed through the culture with such acclaim that everyone knew what they were about, but which disappeared so suddenly that it isn’t easy to figure out, years later, exactly what was going on. (Not now, Butterscotch Broth, we’ll discuss pogs someContinue reading “More Worries”
Making Lemonade
So, as I was trying to point out, before I was so rudely interrupted by a pandemic, the world is so full of wondrous things that I’m sure we should all be as busy as bees. I may not have that quotation exactly right, but that’s the way it goes. Whereas I used to sortContinue reading “Making Lemonade”