Grew

Nostalgia is a strange and complex emotion. I never would have predicted decades ago that when I was an adult, I would get strangely wistful for the days when TV shows would stop every 15 minutes to sell you sodas and cars and toys. But back then no one knew that in 30 years time, … Read more

Kids today don’t know how good they have it. My own children have almost no concept of television commercials. They watch everything on streaming, so on the extremely rare occasion that they do watch something on a traditional TV channel — like, say, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade — they are baffled. “So the whole … Read more