A memoir for the Baby Boom generation

WHO WE ARE

It’s About Time

A Story of Two Lives, One Street, and the Decades That Shaped a Generation.

1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Beyond
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Who We Are — front cover

It’s going to make you smell your mother’s kitchen.
It’s going to make you hear a screen door slam in 1958.
It’s going to make you remember where you were when Kennedy was shot — and when Armstrong walked.

From the Prologue

Born into one world.
They lived to see it become another.

Between 1946 and 1964, seventy-six million babies were born in the United States — the largest generation the country had ever produced. They changed everything. Not because they were smarter or braver, but because of when they arrived.


Who We Are traces two parallel lives — his and hers — through every decade from the Forties through Today, weaving personal milestones with the history that shaped a generation. From Kennedy’s inauguration to the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the birth control pill to the glass ceiling, this is the story of how we became who we are.


“The world was dead wrong.”

His story. Her story.
One generation.

The same decades. Different worlds. One extraordinary convergence.

The Boy — Born 1949

The path was narrow — but it was clear.

He came home from the hospital in a blue blanket, to a house where his future was assumed. He would grow up, get educated, find a career, support a family. Every institution in America was organized to keep him on that path.


He didn’t stay on it — not entirely. Nobody in his generation did.

The Girl — Born 1949

She was building the road while she walked it.

She came home in a pink blanket, to a world that had already decided what she would become. Every door she opened had been locked the day before. Every seat she took had been reserved for someone else.


Her story doesn’t run alongside his as a footnote. It runs alongside his as an equal narrative — because that is what it always was.

Seventy-seven years.
Seven chapters. One life.

1940sChapter OneBorn into a world still catching its breath after the war
1950sChapter TwoPlayed in the suburbs, under Ike, before Elvis changed everything
1960sChapter ThreeThe world cracked open — and they fell right through
1970sChapter FourWatergate, disco, gas lines — and the hard work of growing up
1980sChapter FiveReagan, the Wall coming down, and a family to raise
1990sChapter SixThe internet, the bull market, and the beautiful illusion it would last
BeyondChapter SevenGrandchildren, pandemics, and the dream that never stops

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ISBN: 979-8-9958166-0-7  •  Published 2026