Giving You Easy Ways to Use Certain Classical Music Which Listened to in the Background For Twenty M
We Grandmas want to make things easy for our families and loved ones. When I read that research suggests that the soundtrack to your...
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Jul 10, 20183 min read
Fourth of July is Over, So Why Should We Care For July 4th 2019 What Was Wrought in 2018?
This Grandma, a naturalized citizen, is very patriotic. Yes, the red, white and blue of July 4th are very important. Only PopPop and I...
Jul 4, 20182 min read
It Is Worth Taking the Time To Opt Out For Privacy on Google, Email Accounts, Amazon, and Internet A
This Grandma watches the Today Show and Rossen Reports is a favorite segment. With the European Union cracking down on Facebook, and...
Jun 27, 20184 min read
Learning About Having #It All From Another Woman Who Has Had It All, But Not All At the Same Time
Justice of the United States Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said she believes women can have it all, but perhaps not all at the...
Jun 20, 20184 min read
Fourth Trimester and Optimal Age for Human Baby and Puppy Cuteness Optimization Are the Same
With two new baby grandsons, the difficulty of the new parent experience is relived. This Grandma equates it to being a hamster on a...
Jun 12, 20183 min read
Five Healthy Habits to Give Us Twelve to Fifteen Additional Years to Celebrate Milestones With Our Grandchildren and Only One Word To Remember
Since the birth of our first grandchild, Grandpa and I periodically converse about how old we are going to be when he graduates from high...
Jun 6, 20182 min read
New Baby Clothing Made With Magnet Closures Make Middle of the Night Changes A Breeze
Onesie footies are always the key for newborn and baby dress, although this grandma does love the gowns. Our daughter in law and son,...
May 30, 20184 min read
Grateful for the Fathers In Our Lives This Father’s Day 2018 Seventy Years After the Holocaust
As I thought about this Father’s Day 2018, the year’s traumatic and potentially fatal health circumstances clearly highlighted thoughts...
May 16, 20183 min read
Why Boomers’ Lives May Depend On Paying attention To Oral Health and Periodontal Disease
Here is a short true-false quiz: (persistent is defined as two weeks or more) If you have persistent bad breath it may be a sign of...
May 8, 20187 min read
Senior Discounts Are No Joke and For the Best Senior Discounts You May Be “Carded” As You Were At Ag
When all of our friends were turning 50, Grandpa and I gave two gifts. The first was a three year membership to AARP (now $43) because...
Apr 20, 20183 min read
Six Ways To Celebrate 2018 Earth Day and Earth Month With Grandchildren
On April 22 each year since 1970, we celebrate Earth Day, a day to appreciate and be aware of our environment and the Earth. Earth Day...
Apr 17, 20183 min read
Be Aware and Beware of Little Known Adverse Consequences of DNA and Genetic Testing Before You Do Such and Before You Gift It to Loved Ones
“23 and Me” ads are all over the television. So many people gifted this ancestry and their health genetic testing or other companies’...
Apr 8, 20189 min read
Preserving Family History Leads To Much Less than Six Degrees of Separation with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Future Connecting With the Significant Past
“Six Degrees of Separation” a play and movie of our Boomer generation, written by American playwright John Guare, opened on Broadway in...
Apr 3, 20183 min read
Who Would Believe “Good Old Days” Would Be So Perfectly Described By a Thirty Four Year Old in Colla
Once our grandchildren began listening to pop music on the radio, and it was earlier than we realized, this Grandma convinced Grandpa...
Mar 30, 20183 min read
Unique Modern Art Gifts For Baby and Older Grandchildren
We grandmas are always looking for unique gifts for our grandchildren and unique decor for their rooms. I have written about books on...
Mar 27, 20184 min read
Our Choice of Bread Defines Where We have Come From, Who We Are, and Sometimes Who We Aspire To Be
Our eleven year old granddaughter, visiting for spring break, asked for a sandwich. Ever the doting grandmother, I had purchased three...
Mar 25, 20183 min read
Teenagers are Like Two Year Old and We Must Remind the Parents of Our Grandchildren to Treat Them As Such
Oftentimes, in my twenty years as a family court judge, I found divorcing parents fighting over time with their teenagers. I was always...
Mar 20, 20183 min read
Poop Should Not Be A Toy and We Grandparents Should Say Phooey to Poop Toys
The article, “Toy Fair is Flush with Poo-inspired Games and Trinkets,” in the Washington Post February 24, 2018, by Mark Lennihan, has...
Mar 16, 20182 min read
Golden Retriever Buddies Movies Are Boomer Grandparents’ Best Home Movie Friends
We are in an era where families are having movie nights and board game nights and that is fabulous bonding time. I find that I am...
Mar 13, 20182 min read
Bugaboo Steps Aside for UPPAbaby
My favorite picture of myself as a baby has me sitting up in a huge fancy baby carriage. When I had my first child, now nearly 45 years...
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