The Snooze Button Generation

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Sunday, December 1, 2024

Gen X college holds own vs. Gen Z

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It's time for me to battle Sophie. Mano y mano. I grew up on games and competition, and we played constant board games, cards and HORSE....
Friday, November 1, 2024

Let's do the Time Warp again

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It's astounding. Time is fleeting. Oh thank God, the 2024 Presidential Election will end — hopefully, maybe — this week, and I'm not...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Active aging enables freedom

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Well, another year has sped by in my aging process, and I turned 51 on Friday. I'm loving this aging thing and have accidentally committ...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The art of overachievement

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It feels great to overachieve. But what does that even mean? Achievement and goals can be tricky to gauge because we usually move the goalpo...
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Thursday, August 1, 2024

Art sneaks into Polack's world

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It's hard to be an artist in the modern age. For some, they might chuckle at the word. Artist?!? Are you kidding me? It's curious to...
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Monday, July 1, 2024

The Year of Coffee Shops

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We parents have a lot of guilt — or at least I do. I am so sorry for addicting my youngest daughter, Chloe, to caffeine. My bad! It began in...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Praise the messenger

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"Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel." With the twisted economics of baseball, big-market teams, like the Yanke...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Connection keys our health

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Editor's Note: The Snooze Button Generation originally published "100 Nonfiction Books I Recommend" in 2019. As we read more n...
Monday, April 1, 2024

Darkness before light on Opening Day

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My hometown of Cleveland will experience quite a day next week, when the Guardians play their Home Opener two hours after a rare total solar...
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Friday, March 1, 2024

We are not our accomplishments

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Editor's Note: The Snooze Button Generation originally published "100 Nonfiction Books I Recommend" in 2019. As we read more b...
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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Accidental wisdom seeps in

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Patience is the companion of wisdom. A wise person sees the big picture and recognizes that they are not God or the most important person in...
Monday, January 1, 2024

Quick nunchi in Costco

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Editor's Note: After one year of having a Costco membership, Snooze Button Generation founder and CEO Joe Stevens let it expire. "I...
Friday, December 1, 2023

Can democracy survive uber-capitalism?

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Editor's Note: The Snooze Button Generation published 100 Nonfiction Books I Recommend in 2019, then updated it with 25 new books this y...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Why do they put cotton in pill bottles?

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"I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you s...
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Sunday, October 1, 2023

A midlife shift to woo-woo wonder

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Midlife crisis? I'm pretty sure the word crisis  is too harsh to describe my deal. In my thesaurus, synonyms are catastrophe, calamity, ...
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