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Sam Kemp-Jackson
@samkj27.bsky.social
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Canadian 🇨🇦
She/Her| Mom| Nana | Words: @torontostar @cbc @globeandmail @lonelyplanet @Chatelaine, etc.|Talk: @ctv @cbc + |Teaches
@SenecaPolytechnic.

A Gen-Xer who writes about back in the day @ livinginthepast.substack.com.

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October 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Time-lapse: Memories of a bucolic summer vacation in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.

#nature #beauty #Quebec
October 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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“We Gen-Xers were fortunate enough to grow up in a time when, absent of the wireless and largely solitary-focused technology of today, we were exposed to every type of music possible, whether we liked it or not.”

livinginthepast.substack.com/p/before-blu...
#GenX #music
October 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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If you grew up on reruns of The Flying Nun, Hogan’s Heroes, or That Girl, you probably wondered the same things I did:
1) How did a 90-pound nun really fly?
2) Why were POW camps played for laughs?
3) Who was funding Ann-Marie’s endless wardrobe?
Gen X memories meet 60s absurdities👉 bit.ly/42pWAMT
Sally Field as "The Flying Nun."
September 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Never been so sure in my life🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

#vote
April 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Why not?

#Thoughts
Tomorrow's another day. That's what we tell ourselves as a measure of hope that we can start anew in 24 hours. But what if we stopped looking towards tomorrow and started thinking about today? More specifically, right now? We all have the ability to start anew at any given point in time. Why not now?
April 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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"Big Hair, Don't Care."
And it wasn't just in the 80s.

Remember?

livinginthepast.substack.com/p/big-hair-d...

#hair #trend #80s #GenX
Dolly Parton and her big hair, 1980s style. Superstar "hair metal" band from the 1980s, Mötley Crüe. A typical "big hair" look from the 80s. Cher rocking her big hair in the 80s.
March 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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This book blew my mind. A must read that will make you question the nature of time and reality. Has anyone else read it and has have similar thoughts?

#BookSky
Cover of the book "The Order of Time" by author Carlo Rovelli.
March 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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A masterpiece.
Robert Deniro in Goodfellas
January 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Let’s face it: it was always about the drugs.

livinginthepast.substack.com/p/psychedeli...

#GenX #TV
January 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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What a great idea from @destry66.bsky.social! Here are mine.
Bok: Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday. Charleston Heston as Taylor, along with Zira and Cornelius in a scene from the original Planet of the Apes. Cover of the original Jesus Christ Superstar album, 1970. Walter White/Heisenberg, from Breaking Bad.
November 16, 2024 at 1:35 AM