About this blog
Welcome to Twenty & Change! Here, you'll find stories from York Daily Record's Generation Y'ers as they blog the many changes that come along in your 20s -- good and bad -- and, essentially, how to survive until you’re 30.

-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- beate on Grandparentless: Losing your last grandparent
- The Southpaw on Grandparentless: Losing your last grandparent
- April on Study: Millennials like nice things
- E.C. Pollick on To school or not to school? That is the question.
- Smart Magazine | Is honey an allergy cure-all? It’s up in the air on Finding my organic community in York
Blogroll
Categories
- 20-ish Dish
- 20-something
- Aging
- Apartment living
- April Trotter
- Ashley May
- Bethany Fehlinger
- Bill Landauer
- Boomerang Kid
- Brittany Wilson
- Career
- Caryn Rupert
- Charity
- Cohabitating
- Dan Rorabaugh
- Do-it-yourself
- Emily Opilo
- Entertainment
- Erin McCracken
- Faith
- Family
- Fashion
- Food
- Generation Y
- Growing up
- Guy's perspective
- Health
- Home
- Kids
- Lauren Boyer
- Leigh Zaleski
- Love
- Makeup
- Marriage
- Money
- Music
- Online dating
- Pop culture
- Quarter-Life Crisis
- Relationships
- Sarah Chain
- Stephanie Reighart
- Travel
- Uncategorized
- Vacation
- Voting
Archives
Category Archives: Quarter-Life Crisis
Bye bye terrible twin: At 24, Lauren Boyer gets a big girl bed
This weekend, I got a little closer to adulthood. You see, a while back, I wrote this post about being 23 and sleeping in a twin bed. It wasn’t that big of a deal … but it was THAT BIG … Continue reading
Hard of hearing at 26
For the past week, I’ve had an eye-, er, ear-opening experience, and a few choice words for friends, family members, co-workers and even strangers: “Huh?” “What?” “I’m sorry?” Last Thursday, I lost an ear. Not like Van Gogh, silly. It … Continue reading
Posted in 20-something, Aging, Growing up, Health, Love, Quarter-Life Crisis
Tagged doctor, ear, hearing
Leave a comment
A 20-something wins the Iditarod
Dallas Seavey has a story none of his college buddies are likely to beat. Finally got that first job? Figured out what that rattling noise is in your furnace? Finally moved out of your parents’ house? That’s cool; he just … Continue reading
Posted in 20-something, Dan Rorabaugh, Guy's perspective, Quarter-Life Crisis
Tagged Alaska, born in 1988, Dallas Seavey, dog sled race, Iditarod
1 Comment
Not a jack-of-all-trades, just unique
Growing up I always was the girl with a million activities: soccer, cheerleading, gymnastics, piano lessons, flute lessons, singing in school concerts, parts in plays, working for the school newspaper, a member of a handful of clubs, altar server at … Continue reading
My Valentine’s Day dates were good. They were hot. They were … my parents.
My Valentine’s Day dates are going AWOL this year. That’s right. I’m a lucky girl. Last February, I had TWO people take me out on that special holiday that celebrates love through candy, flowers, gifts, and entire grocery store aisles … Continue reading
Posted in 20-something, Lauren Boyer, Quarter-Life Crisis, Relationships
Tagged 20-something, date with parents, dating, lauren boyer, parents, relationships, single, valentine's day
2 Comments
Twenty & Change debate: Lana Del Rey
Erin: I’m getting into the Lana Del Rey debate late, but her album “Born to Die” did just come out Tuesday. Which seems strange, since every critic on the planet already chewed her up and spit her out. For a … Continue reading
Posted in 20-something, Generation Y, Growing up, Pop culture, Quarter-Life Crisis
Tagged Born to Die, Lana Del Rey, Lizzy Grant
Leave a comment
Talk about promotions: 20-something could be next North Korean leader
Update: North Korea calls Kim Jong Un ‘supreme leader,’ cementing the family’s hold. ——————————————————— He lived a private life while his father, called “Dear Leader,” ran what is considered the world’s most isolated state. However, Kim Jong Un was thrust … Continue reading
Posted in 20-something, Career, Generation Y, Growing up, Quarter-Life Crisis
Tagged 20-something, careers, criticism, growing up, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Kim Moon-soo, North Korea
1 Comment
Am I even making a difference?
I just read this blog post by Allison Jones titled “How do you know you’re making a difference?” Allison works in the nonprofit world, but I think this question has crept up in any 20-something’s mind after graduating college. At … Continue reading
The toilet list
Estimable blogger extraordinaire April Trotter published her bucket list in a previous post. As the Twenty & Change’s resident not-20-something male, I felt I should offer the crotchety take. Bucket lists. In my experience, only the very young or the … Continue reading
Posted in 20-something, Bill Landauer, Quarter-Life Crisis, Uncategorized
Tagged cheese, crotchety, death, ear hair, old
1 Comment
Friend’s birthday inspires a ‘Before 30′ bucket list
Today my “sister from another mister” turns 30. She was one of the first friends I made when I moved to Harrisburg more than four years ago. We both worked at the same newspaper, so we’d sometimes commute to work … Continue reading
Posted in 20-something, April Trotter, Growing up, Quarter-Life Crisis
Tagged 20-something, 20-somethings, before 30, birthday, bucket list, budget, career, debt, finance, generation y, growing up, master's degree, quarter-life crisis, twenty, Twitter
3 Comments
