IDK - Prince playing Purple Rain, in the rain in Miami(?) - with those blond I Dream of Jeanie twins....that ruled the halftime. Best ever. Ever.

I'm a 50 year old suburban white grandmother. And I've loved Missy Elliott ever since her Lose Control video.... only thing that that made me flip back/forth from the Forensic Files - didn't want to miss Miss Missy.

ah, the small pox shot. Everyone used to have that that super dooper scar that looked like a lamprey kiss on their shoulder. Mine is now barely visible but still there 45 years later. (It was a nasty shot).

I'm of the first generation that had full access to the primary vacs. Born in early 1960s. But it was still far from unusual to have classmates out with measles, mumps, and scarlet fever. I remember in 2nd grade boys talking about how their testicles swelled like softballs and the pain. I remember several older high…

I'm 50 and like most kids my age, we were all pretty much 'free range'. Are there things my parents didn't know I did that they should have known about - that I'd want to know if my kids did? Did I do some really stupid shit? Were there things I did that had risk? You bet. But nothing bad happened.

You nailed what I was thinking. Born 1964. It wasn't that everything was 'safer'; the difference was your neighbors knew - or at least knew who - each other. And for the most part all the kids in the neighborhood were identifiable by name to the adults. So, someone's hurt - you knock on the door across the street…

Two or three years ago my friend ran to the local CVS at 7 pm. Her 12 year old stayed in the car. Friend is waiting to pick up her prescription and a woman comes into the waiting area and asks waiting patrons if any of them owns (friend's car), in the parking lot with a child inside. Friend speaks up thinking maybe…