The SFB

Random musings from a Gen X life lived on the edge… of nothing except Lake Erie. 70s and 80s pop culture and music.

relationships

  • My love/hate relationship with Valentine’s day

    What’s up with holidays that are about forced merrymaking? A Valentine’s Day rant. Nothing  wrong with celebrating love, but come on, what actually is Valentine’s Day?  I mean no one is celebrating St. Valentine, right? I know the story about St. Valentine.  I was the advisor to a middle school newspaper in which kiddos wrote… Read more

  • Friends? Chums? Cohorts? Pals? Alter egos? Allies? Buddies? Confidants?

    NOT S OR F OR B today- just contemplating relationships I started this blog in the late winter of 2024 as a way to sort through the process of trying to reclaim the core of who I am, of who I used to be, and to figure out how to move through the world as… Read more