This Grandma, now retired, has the time daily and I read the local newspaper, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. On line, I read Apple News and Flipboard and most of the news articles published daily, PBS and BBC News. On TV, I watch […]
We Boomers Have Been Waiting For the Exciting New Global News Organization Going to Be Started By Ben Smith, Media Columnist for the New York Times, and Justin Smith, Bloomberg Media Chief Executive Officer
January 15, 2022 By Leave a Comment
The Wiring in Grandma’s Brain is the Subject of A New 2021 Study and the Findings Reaffirm our Place in the World
January 7, 2022 By Leave a Comment
“You know that special bond your mother seems to have with your kids? The one she doesn’t seem to have with anyone else — even you? You’re not just imagining it, according to a new study.” This was the beginning of a CNN article, by Madeline Holcombe, November 19,2021, “Is Your Mom Warmer with her […]
Cars, Trucks, Construction Vehicles and Toys and Books Galore For Holiday Gifts 2021
November 21, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Having five grandsons means learning a lot about cars, trucks and construction vehicles. Our youngest grandson, age three, has a girl cousin, also age three. Watching them at his house playing with his cars, trucks and construction vehicles was enlightening. They both lined every matchbox size car in a row. They both use the flatbed […]
Honoring My Mother-In-Law Today and Forever
November 6, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Ten years ago, I wrote a blog post about my mother-in-law, “My Mother-in-Law, the Star,” honoring her and everything about her which made her special to me as a mother-in-law, and special to everyone in our family as our GG, great grandmother, and matriarch of our family. GG Lee was eighty-eight years old ten years […]
From Facebook About How Living Longer Brings Learning and Wisdom To Share to Improve Quality of Life
October 30, 2021 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma is new to social media. When I was a sitting judge in Florida, I was constrained from participating in social media. I never participated in Facebook and, retired from the bench, really enjoy it now. Posts from my friends and acquaintances keep me connected in this COVID era. I am reluctant to pass […]
Take the Spookiness Out of Halloween 2021 with A Celebration of National Cookie Month
October 24, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Halloween was and is always special to this Grandma. It enabled me, as a long distance grandma, to help select and buy Halloween costumes for the grandchildren since they were babies. See, for example, “It’s Time to Find the Best Halloween Costume for Grandchildren Again,” and “Halloween Costumes are a Great Grandma Gift,” and other […]
I AM A REFUGEE. I LOVE AMERICA
September 26, 2021 By Leave a Comment
One Sunday morning, I was watching news reels of Afghan refugees carrying babies. It hit home to me, as I was a baby brought to America at six months old by my Holocaust survivor parents. I sat down at the computer and began to write what I intended to be a blog post. After I […]
From Facebook About How Living Longer Brings Learning and Wisdom To Share to Improve Quality of Life
September 19, 2021 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma is new to social media. When I was a sitting judge in Florida, I was constrained from participating in social media. I never participated in Facebook and, retired from the bench, really enjoy it now. Posts from my friends and acquaintances keep me connected in this COVID era. I am reluctant to pass […]
Thinking Posts About Masks Were Done Months Ago: Back To School With Masked Grandchildren is Not What This Grandma Expected
September 9, 2021 By Leave a Comment
When I wrote the last blog post about masks, I really thought it was going to be my last. Now with schools starting in Florida, parents are fighting for and against masks in school. The school board in Broward County, where Fort Lauderdale is located, has determined that the only safe way to open schools […]
Easy Vanilla or Chocolate Pudding Dirt Cake Recipe Especially With Grandchildren Who Love to Play in the Dirt
August 29, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Our youngest grandchild has the largest sandbox at home created by his handy father. Nevertheless, he took his wagon, favorite excavator (he has many as he loves this construction vehicle), shovel, and went right for the dirt where his father was planting. He is always more interested in playing in the dirt. It does not […]
What Family Vacations, Grandchildren, and Grandparent Electronics Lessons Have in Common
August 15, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Not especially tech savvy, I wait for family vacations to pester our older grandchildren and ask their help to make my use of electronics more user friendly. The best is when they, by happenstance, see me struggling with something and teach me a trick that is indispensable to my life. This may seem like an […]
The Five Most Important Reasons Why and When NOT To Put Wedding and Family Photographs Away When The Parents of Our Grandchildren Get Divorced
August 8, 2021 By Leave a Comment
In the May 18, 2021, Washington Post, Ms. Manners answered the following question at the end of her advice column: “Dear Miss Manners: When your child gets a divorce, when should you put the wedding pictures and other family photos away?” Miss Manners’ answer: “When your child gets a divorce.” That is an easy answer […]
.We Over Seventy Seven Million Boomers of which Seventy Million are Boomer Grandparents Have the Power And Ability To Fight The “Disinformation Dozen” As They Are A Life Threatening Danger To Our Grandchildren
July 31, 2021 By Leave a Comment
REMEMBER THESE TWELVE NAMES. 1.Joseph Mercola 2. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 3. Ty & Charlene Bollinger 4. Sherri Tenpenny 5. Rizza Islam 6. Rashid Buttar 7. Erin Elizabeth 8 Sayer Ji 9. Kelly Brogan 10. Christiane Northrup 11. Ben Tapper 12. Kevin Jenkins As a grandparent who is a child of Holocaust survivors, I have […]
The Boomer’s Best Secret Weapon in America is Finally Being Appreciated and Respected
June 13, 2021 By Leave a Comment
This Boomer Grandma has been hearing this for what seems like eons: Americans do not appreciate and sufficiently respect its elders. Then, I had an “aha” moment. This pandemic has changed that. Our Boomer’s best secret weapon in America of wisdom gained from living a long life may have a positive impact on the rest […]
Father’s Day After the Pandemic Shutdown: Planning Get Togethers and More Gift Ideas
June 6, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Last year, Father’s Day was like no other, and this Grandma acknowledged that with gifts appropriate to that experience. Father’s Day 2020 is a Father’s Day Like No Other and Consider Gifts Like No Other Year Father’s Day 2020 is a Father’s Day Like No Other and Consider Gifts Like No Other Year Previous […]
Gray Divorce is not About What You Are Reading In the Media: Hear It From A Retired Family Court Judge
May 30, 2021 By Leave a Comment
The media hoopla around the divorce of Bill and Melinda Gates is the impetus for this blog post and my sharing of my thoughts on “gray” and “white” marriage and divorce. “Gray” divorces are considered ages 50’s and 60’s. I guess that leaves us Boomers with “white” divorces. After a long profession of helping children […]
The One Major Impetus For Our Friends and relatives To Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19 As Soon As It Is Available To Them
May 8, 2021 By Leave a Comment
There are risks to each of our choices as whether to vaccinate or not vaccinate for COVID-19. To think there are no risks is risky. We have no knowledge of the effect of vaccination in five years, ten years, thirty years. This a new vaccine and the unknown is the unknown. It is not only […]
Spring and Summer Dessert Pizza Recipes after Pizza for Breakfast
April 29, 2021 By Leave a Comment
It is hard for this Grandma to realize that I have been sharing “grandma lessons” since September 2011, almost ten years. What is harder to believe is that the impetus for this blog, the birth of my first grandchild, my oldest grandson, is heading off for college! When his mother, our oldest daughter, told us […]
