Memorializing Family Rituals and Traditions in the New Year 2021
When I wrote previous New Year’s blog posts I thought those transitions were difficult. See blog post, Memorializing Family Rituals and...
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Dec 25, 20204 min read
School Mask Breaks And Other 2020 COVID-19 Experiences Our Grandchildren Should Preserve For Their Children and Grandchildren, Sample Questions for Videotaping Them and How To Do It
During the COVID-19 coronavirus lock down period in March and April, 2020, I interviewed our older grandchildren, two aged 13 and one...
Dec 3, 20206 min read
The Best of the Best 2020 Christmas and Chanukah Gifts for Everyone and Especially Grandchildren in This Far From the Best Year for Celebration
Thanksgiving 2020 took a toll. Not only could this Grandma not cook small enough for two, nothing tasted as good as when the entire...
Nov 25, 202014 min read
Our Holocaust Family History, Part II. My Mother, Holocaust Survivor
My mother, born Feiga (“little bird” or Zipora in Hebrew) Jelen, for whom our granddaughter is named), rarely spoke of the Holocaust....
Nov 5, 20205 min read
The Difference in American Life due to COVID-19 Between March and April 2020 and November 2020: Pandemic Loss of Memories and Sharing Life Passage Events Brings Tears
When the pandemic lockdown occurred March, 2020, I videotaped the three oldest grandchildren for them to save and look at their videos in...
Oct 21, 20207 min read
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and This Florida Judge’s Immigrant Life Following Her A Decade Later. Para
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a giant among us and her loss has been felt nationwide. The following two quotes I...
Sep 17, 20205 min read
Finding COVID-19 Testing For Adults By Mail is Easy But How Can Parents Find COVID-19 Testing by Mai
Travel is scary now enough for adults. I have several friends who have flown and send me pictures of themselves on the airplane. It was...
Sep 9, 20205 min read
The Best Idea For Maintaining Close Contact With Grandchildren During Covid-19 Comes From An Unexpec
PopPop, and I, as long distance grandparents, made it our business to visit our grandchildren often when they were younger, about every...
Sep 2, 20208 min read
PART TWO of Learning Tips to Pass On and Incorporate With Your Grandchildren During Remote or Part Time Learning and Any Time
At this time of remote or part time learning, we are all concerned about how much our grandchildren are going to retain. I hope the two...
Aug 19, 202010 min read
A New Scientific Study Shows How We Grandparents Cause Ill Will Between Us and the Parents of Our Gr
“Half of Parents Report Butting Heads with Child’s Grandparent Over Parenting,” is a new study from C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital...
Aug 12, 20209 min read
Seven Great On Line Shopping Tips During COVID-19 or Anytime to Get the Best at the Best Price
In this time of COVID-19, spending more time in our homes, we are not only cleaning closets and reorganizing, we are looking to change or...
Jul 29, 20206 min read
Let Us Not Forget We are Living Through History In the Making and The Generations That Come After Will Never Forget Us
We are living through history in the making and the generations that come after will never forget us. We are not only passively living...
Jul 22, 20205 min read
The Four Ways The Pandemic COVID-19 Even Affects Our Celebration of National Ice Cream Month
July is National Ice Cream Month. That makes sense. July is the highlight month of the summer, with July 4th and summer vacations and...
Jul 8, 20209 min read
The Best and Worst About Our Grandchildren Safely Going To School This Coming School Year While the Pandemic, COVID-19, Is Still Among Us
This Grandma interviewed the three oldest grandchildren to preserve their memories about what life is like during the pandemic. The...
Jul 1, 20203 min read
A Humorous and Profound View on What We Have Learned from Covid-19: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
A friend who is an outstanding writer shared an article she wrote for her local community newsletter and gave me permission to share it...
Jun 17, 202010 min read
The Six Best Tips for Car Travel in the Time of Coronavirus, Covid-19
With the corona virus pandemic, we do not want to leave the house, much less travel any distance. Yes, staying home is getting old. But,...
Jun 3, 20203 min read
Father’s Day 2020 is a Father’s Day Like No Other and Consider Gifts Like No Other Year
We are in the midst of once in a century and half century traumatic events. There are protests in the street after the murder of George...
May 27, 20206 min read
Grandparents May Be the Answer To The War Against Vaccines
Beginning around 2013, I read that the Russians first tried a social media campaign against vaccination in the United States as a test to...
May 20, 20202 min read
For A Sweet Relief From Seriousness of the Pandemic, Ice Cream Bread To Try Out For Yourself With The Leftover Rainbow Sprinkles You Cannot Now Share With Your Grandchildren or Zoom Make it With Them
Pandemic Pounds. That is what I call the extra weight I am carrying around due to a sweet tooth and being home all the time to overdo. ...
May 13, 20205 min read
A Child of Holocaust Survivors View of Surviving the Coronavirus, Covid-19
For the very first time in over seven decades, I decided that I would participate in an on line video group of second generation...
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