Raspberry yumyums. Goody gumdrops. Wispy cotton candy swirls. Sweet. My Little Pony. Those soft puffy strawberry candies that sometimes taste like soap. Crest toothpaste. Neapolitan ice cream. Strawberry. Vanilla and chocolate. How many licks does it take to get to the centre of the tootsie pop asks the owl. Nostalgia. Eighty’s baby. Ninety’s child. Jem and the Holograms. KD for lunch. Raised by my german nanny. Parents fought. A jukebox with oldies. Kids these days think Eminem is ‘oldies’, and now he’s cool again.
Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre take-over the Superbowl with 90’s jams. Has the pandemic made us long for the past more so than ever, and as a collective?
Is this how my parents felt when I wore low-rise bellbottom jeans, thinking that was a new trend ‘our’ teenage generation started?
where rivers are born 