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Can you believe Barbie is a boomer? Here's a snippet of the story from Brandweek: Mattel has announced initial plans for Barbie's yearlong, global 50th birthday celebration. Bloomingdale's, colette, Stila, Dylan's Candy Bar, Jonathan Adler and 50 fashion designers are just some of those invited to the party. Over the course of the year, Barbie's birthday will be celebrated through a host of...

It's an interesting year for me and my family. Today, my mom is celebrating her birthday. On this day 29 years ago, she was 29 years old, pregnant with me, and -- as it turns out -- just four days away from delivery. This year, I turn 29. The same age as my mom was when she had me. It's bizarre to think that I have passed the age where my mom gave birth to her first child, almost five years...

Uncle Dave, 2005 This is my uncle, David Kyle. He is recognized in the science fiction community as the elder statesman, certainly to the older generation and since the passing of two of his very close friends, Arthur C. Clark and more recently, Forrest J Ackerman, the man who coined the term, sci-fi. I don't know how many present day fans he has, but it's not all that important. He...

The number thirty, depicted as -30-, is used to indicate the end of a newspaper (or broadcast) story; it's a copy editor's typographical notation. Yet, among all the other ways thirty is used in our daily lives, there is one that is special. It is that day when someone turns thirty - a special and magical birthday. It is not the ending but rather the start of the best years of one's life....

Oh what a wonderful day we had! It was a long day filled with fun, laughter and meeting new...