Finding the Good Life

Gen-Xers are grown up and navigating the chaos of real, full-on adulthood — and honestly, sometimes it feels like we blinked and woke up here. I’m one of them, and I’m closer to 50 than I’d like to admit. I have a family, a daughter about to start college, a middle-management job, and a respectable start to retirement savings.

We’re the generation that lived through Saturday morning cartoons, mixtapes, and payphones. We watched personal computers go from wild new gadget to everyday necessity, saw cell phones evolve from bricks to tiny supercomputers in our pockets, and witnessed social media transform from harmless fun to… whatever strange universe it is now. We remember life before the internet — and we also remember the dial-up tone like it was a battle cry.

We're that weird in-between generation — latch-key kids turned self-sufficient adults, independent to a fault, raised by TV and common sense, able to entertain ourselves for hours with nothing but a backyard and a bike. We never really fit the Boomer mold, and we don’t have the Millennial vibe. We’re the overlooked middle children of the cultural timeline, just out here quietly doing our thing, like we always have.

Now we find ourselves in a season of life that’s complex in ways we never expected. We're juggling retirement planning, college tuition, career plateaus, aging parents, health curveballs, kids leaving the nest, and those mysterious aches that arrive for no reason other than existing. We’re trying to stay relevant in a world moving at the speed of light while figuring out who we are now that we’re not the “rad” kids in acid-wash jeans and flannel shirts anymore.

How do we keep our identity — or reinvent it — without abandoning everything that made us… us? How do we stay “cool” in our Gen-X way while handling news full of doom, family dynamics, career uncertainty, and this constant expectation that we should have it all figured out by now? How do we find the Good Life as we define it for ourselves, whether that is a house on the beach, a fully-funded 401k, or simply the contentment that comes from a life well lived with people well loved?

These are the questions so many of us are wrestling with. And that’s what this blog is all about: shining a light on the real issues Gen-Xers face, laughing at the absurdity of it all, offering support, sharing tips, and figuring it out as we go. If you’re feeling nostalgic, hopeful, determined, and still a little punk rock at heart — you’re in the right place.

This is our space. Our voice. Our moment to say, “Hey, we’re still here — and we’ve got a lot to say.”

I hope you’ll join me on this journey. Let’s navigate midlife with humor, honesty, and the quiet confidence of a generation that survived rotary phones, unsafe playgrounds, and drinking straight from the hose. We’ve got this — even if we question it every step of the way. Come with me to find the Good Life.