My generation

The trend in naming age cohorts is just to use letters. Now we’ve reached the end of the alphabet. What’s next?

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We all have a story to tell. With each new day that passes, your story unfolds. Will it be a romance, comedy, a novel or a documentary film. However you tell it, know that your story is significant.

I­ was the first in my family to leave for school, so everyone came along.

In my last Adweek column introducing the Post Generation—my nickname for the under-14 cohort, also variously referred to as Gen Z or Centennials or the Homeland Generation (among other appellations)—I discussed how they're coming of

Generation, to Generation...to Generation. Me, My Father and My Grandfather - Family Photography 'Growth and Evolution'

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A few years ago I was reorganizing a closet and discovered cardboard boxes tucked into a dark corner. Much to my surprise, I found dress boxes and shoeboxes filled with photographs from the 1940s and early ’50s. I had forgotten that when my father died I inherited his personal photographs. That afternoon and long into the night, I sat on the hallway floor looking at the pictures and reliving some of those moments. It was like discovering buried treasure, a forgotten family heirloom.

With the discovery of human remains on the grounds of residential schools, this history is now dominating the conversation in the country.