The Update I Owe All of You
Hello, my dear readers. I'm BACK. Did you miss your favorite retro gal? I missed you. Last week or the week before I resumed p...
Showing posts with label It's personal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label It's personal. Show all posts
Happy 2018...I'm Still Here!
Happy New Year, retro fans! Yep, I'm still here. In case you've been wondering if I've abandoned this blog, I sure haven...
The Spacey Between Us
Kevin Spacey was the celebrity that I least expected to ever see associated with a scandal. I've been a fan of his for nearly 20 ye...
Beauty Salon Dropout: Why I Cut and Color My Own Hair In the Year 2017
A (very purple!) 1980s hair salon. Image via Scanagogo A few months ago I made the difficult decision of emailing my hairdresser to le...
Jürgen Prochnow Should Have Been a Huge Star In the States
Hey Germany, let's make a deal. I'll trade you George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, James Franco, Matt Damon, Ryan Gosling, Joh...
Why I Love Bobby Darin
Happy Mother's Day to all of the retro lovin' moms out there! Not only is it Mother's Day, but it also would have been Bobby ...
Stay Tuned (Go Retro and Life in General Updates)
You've probably noticed (or at least I've noticed) that I haven't been posting on here as much...not as much as ideally I'...
How Not To Let Yourself Go (Especially If You're Over 40)
"It'll never happen to me," I used to say when I was younger. "I'll never let myself go." But then I was la...
Three Reasons Why I Almost Never Go To the Movies Anymore
The last time I went to a movie theater was in January to see the Ben Affleck film Live By Night . Before that, it was a good year earlie...
Clean Up Time
I'm working on a new post, but in the meantime needed to vent a bit. Tonight I got an email from an ad network I work with, that also...
I'm Still Standing: Looking Ahead to 2017
Happy New Year, Go Retro readers! I think this is about the fifth time I've attempted this post. I simply wasn't sure whether I r...
Losing My Potty Mouth: The F*** Stops Here
You wouldn't know it from my blog postings but I swear -- sometimes a lot. I recently reviewed a blog post I wrote on here five year...
Why It's OK To Want To Be A Housewife Today
I have a confession to make. If I meet the right man within the next few years, get married, and he's in a position where I can sta...
Quick Favor To Ask Of Go Retro's Facebook Followers
Facebook drives me crazy, and not just because this time of year my newsfeed is clogged with content pertaining to politics and the elect...
When a Seventies Child (Me) Becomes Middle Aged
"Welcome to middle age!" declares an advertising campaign for Philosophy starring Ellen Pompeo that I keep seeing online. "...
Why I Don't Like Texting
A few months back I blogged about why I still feel men should pay for the meal on a first date, and how women shouldn't chew out men...
My Ten Least Favorite Songs From the Seventies
I could have called this post, "The Ten Worst Songs of the Seventies" but I can hear the comments starting already..."Hey ...
Meet My Nifty Mid-Century Modern Stacking Tables and Ceramic Cat Sculptures
If you're a long-time reader of this blog you may have wondered why I never seem to share anything vintage that I actually buy. The a...
New Day. New Ideas. A New You (Er, Me)
So here's the scoop, kids. On Friday I was informed that my position at work was being eliminated. Yep, this is the same job that I t...
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