Celine CogginsI’m Re-Branding My Mid-Life Crisis, And You Should Join MeI celebrated my 49th birthday this week. I’m now officially on the road to 50, the age I associate with the mythic mid-life crisis. Living…Sep 23, 2022Sep 23, 2022
Celine CogginsCalling in the Gen X Search Party: How Can 65 Million Adults Be Invisible?Hey Gen X, who wants to take a road trip to Springfield, Illinois next month? I’ll explain more in a minute, but we may find something of…Sep 13, 2022Sep 13, 2022
Celine CogginsMillennial Student Debt Win Should be a Wake-up Call to Gen XYesterday President Biden announced the cancellation of roughly $300 billion of student debt, up to $20,000 in relief per borrower. It was…Aug 25, 2022Aug 25, 2022
Celine Coggins5 Questions to Ask Your Teens about Social Media(Their Answers Will Flip the Way You Think about Freedom)Aug 11, 2022Aug 11, 2022
Celine CogginsWill a Third Party Be Part of the Gen X Legacy?A few days ago, Andrew Yang, Christine Todd Whitman, and David Jolly announced the formation of a new political party, Forward, designed to…Aug 2, 20221Aug 2, 20221
Celine CogginsThree Stories of My Why: The Good, the Bad, and the AARPI’m a student of social movements and have spent much of my career building them and teaching about them. Marshall Ganz’s framework for…Jul 28, 2022Jul 28, 2022
Celine CogginsJumping In: A Big Idea for Gen XThe Legacy Years Project: A Call to Collective ActionJul 22, 2022Jul 22, 2022
Celine CogginsThe Fall of Roe: Stop 2 on the Gen X Summer 2022 Apology TourI was born a couple of hours after Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in the tennis ‘Battle of the Sexes’. It was September 1973. The same…Jul 8, 2022Jul 8, 2022
Celine CogginsWhat Makes This Time Different?Since the massacre at Robb Elementary, I have been trying to make sense of what it was about the death of George Floyd that led to the…May 27, 2022May 27, 2022
Celine CogginsGen X: It’s on Us to Fix America’s School Shooting EpidemicAs the horror of the school shooting in Uvalde, TX, filled every corner of the media Tuesday afternoon, I fell into a familiar state of…May 25, 2022May 25, 2022