My Mom Is a Fashionista

My mother was born in the 1940s. She knew poverty and lived through sweeping change. Ignorance, hardship, innovation, and explosive social upheaval all shaped her generation. The everyday ups and downs of family life held love and hate, affection and resentment. We, the generation born in the 1960s and 1970s and raised in her unvarnished way, grew up wild and untamed. We were confused, kind, and loving. Read our stories, and you may see yourself or your parents in us.