Passing Along Something Beautiful and Thought Provoking During the Coronavirus Pandemic
So many jokes and cartoons and videos come to me during this coronavirus period. They bring comic relief to this time of the coronavirus...
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Apr 1, 20206 min read
Twelve Tips on How We Grandparents Can Help the Parents of Our Grandchildren Survive Home 24-7 With Their Children
This Grandma tells the parents of our grandchildren that if they lament that a grandchild is behind in a skill or learning that the...
Mar 25, 20204 min read
From A Child of Holocaust Survivors Who Never Knew Grandparents: In 2020, We May Have to Picture Our
Until this date, March 24, 2020, the coronavirus outbreak, dangerous to us Boomers, has meant PopPop and I had to self quarantine, and we...
Mar 18, 20206 min read
Dear Grandchildren, The Year 2020 is Cancelled
This Grandma just got off the telephone with our oldest grandson, age 16, a junior in high school. It is March 16, 2020 at the end of...
Mar 11, 20207 min read
Seven Positives From Coronavirus Virus Outbreak For Boomers and Those The CDC Has Told to Stay Home
Since the Coronovirus has reached our shores, it is we Boomers who have most negatives in relation to the outbreak. We are over the age...
Oct 23, 20193 min read
If Allowances Are A Tool To Teach About Money, How Grandparents’ “Bank” Is Perfect
The Harris Poll recently did a survey for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants about parents’ allowances for children,...
Oct 16, 20197 min read
Five Best Tips To Maximize and Personalize Your Group Tour or Travel to Anywhere in the World
PopPop and I consider ourselves world travelers. After all, we have conquered all the wonders of the world on every world list, except...
Oct 9, 20193 min read
Grandparents Also need a Handy List of Questions to Ask Grandchildren That Will Get Them To Share About Their Day
We grandparents have Face Time. We grandparents have texting. We grandparents have old fashioned telephone contact. When we ask our...
Sep 11, 20192 min read
A Spiritual Leader’s Recollected Life Lesson to Share with Grandchildren
The Catholic Priest gave this homily* at the funeral of a dear friend recently. As he spoke, I recalled that I had heard this life...
Jul 31, 20193 min read
Because Everyone Has Something, There are Life Lessons to Pass on To Our Grandchildren
Great Grandmother (GG) Frieda, My Mother, a Holocaust survivor, who was taught Kabbalah by her Father, a Rabbi in the small shtetl (town)...
Jun 19, 20196 min read
Now That I Am in My Seventies I Understand Why No One Tells You the Truth About How To Optimize Life in Your Seventies
When I was about to hit seventy, GG Lee’s (Great Grandmother age 95) mantra was hitting home. She said live your life to its fullest...
May 29, 20195 min read
What this Grandma, Meghan Markle and Peppa Pig Have In Common Seems to Be the Big News Currently and
When I immigrated to the United States with my parents, I was six months old. Although my mother (GG Frieda) insisted that I was toilet...
May 22, 20193 min read
Best Products and Tips New And Wonderful From the Mother of Her Third Child, Our Youngest Grandchild
This Grandma forgot the overwhelming joy a baby can bring to a family. After all, our youngest baby boy grandchild has brothers seven and...
Apr 26, 20193 min read
One Day University is Just Enough Of Lifelong Learning To Keep Our Boomer Brains Blossoming
Once Grandpa and I finally settled into semi-retirement mode, we started paying attention to our friends who had preceded us into leisure...
Apr 19, 20195 min read
The Hidden Danger of High School Reunions and Why You Should Beware
The hidden danger of high school reunions is not what you would initially think. When I served on the family court bench, I was surprised...
Feb 14, 20194 min read
How Preteen and Teenage Grandchildren Are Like Cats
Grandparenting preteens and teenagers is different than any other grandparenting stage. Grandparenting babies, whether a long distance or...
Feb 6, 20197 min read
How We Grandparents Can Share What Our Grandchildren Will Never Know Otherwise Part 1: Reading and Writing Cursive Is No Longer Taught to Our Grandchildren
When this Grandma was a child, I remember hearing about how some would mark their signature with an X because they could not read or...
Jan 17, 20194 min read
I am one of the Boomer Women Who Personally Experienced Discrimination “On The Basis of Sex”
I just saw the movie,“On the Basis of Sex,” and cannot share the “wow” moment in the movie for me without spoiling the movie for you. I...
Jan 9, 20194 min read
Goal Setting & Pursuing Your Passionate Purpose In The New Year! From An Expert Health & Wellness Coach
Just too few years ago, our younger daughter re-introduced us to a high school friend with whom she reconnected. As we of long years...
Dec 31, 20185 min read
Memorializing Family Rituals and Traditions in the New Year 2019
The last two years, this Grandma’s New Year’s posts have been heavy and emotionally taxing. See post, 2018 New Year’s Resolutions...
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