Remembering those fabulous 80′s

Before there was Lady Gaga, there was Madonna. And before Kanye, Big Daddy Kane. Alex P. Keaton and Bill Cosby taught us about family ties, and the housewives on Dynasty and Dallas would put today’s desperate housewives to shame. It’s been over 20 years, but the images, sounds and characters of the 80’s shaped our teen years and introduced us to would-be cultural icons like Oprah Winfrey, MTV and Super Mario Brothers.

For the next few weeks I’ll be taking a step back into the 80’s.  For women at forty, these were our junior and high school years, influential in shaping us into the women we’d one day become. Much of the confidence we now have, or the issues we still hang on to, began during those “wonder years.”

During the 80’s, mothers began working away from home in greater numbers and movies like Baby Boom and TV’s Murphy Brown began bringing single motherhood into the spotlight. The Cosby Show gave the world a window into the lives of African American families, and the Oprah phenomenon began its meteoric rise.

Every generation says it about their heyday, but times were simpler then. I don’t envy the enormous social pressures on teens today, it all makes me a little nostalgic for the days of my youth. So join me on this journey back in time as I pay homage to the things that were important to our generation during the 80′s.  I’ll be revisiting our music, movies, TV shows, fashion…you name it. Hang on, this is going to be a blast!

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