Please Don’t Call Me “Boomer”

I’ve never felt a part of my generation

Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

Those things in the photo above are called “slides.” We put them in machines called “slide projectors.” Often, the picture on the screen was upside down.

I was born in 1959. Frank Robinson, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, and Yogi Berra played in the All Star game that year. “Mack the Knife” by Bobby Darin was a hit song…