This Grandma watches the Today Show and Rossen Reports is a favorite segment. With the European Union cracking down on Facebook, and strengthening on … [Continue reading]
It Is Worth Taking the Time To Opt Out For Privacy on Google, Email Accounts, Amazon, and Internet Advertising From This Grandma Who Did It By Herself
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Learning About Having #It All From Another Woman Who Has Had It All, But Not All At the Same Time
June 27, 2018 By Leave a Comment
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 same time. She … [Continue reading]
Fourth Trimester and Optimal Age for Human Baby and Puppy Cuteness Optimization Are the Same
June 20, 2018 By Leave a Comment
With two new baby grandsons, the difficulty of the new parent experience is relived. This Grandma equates it to being a hamster on a treadmill that … [Continue reading]
Five Healthy Habits to Give Us Twelve to Fifteen Additional Years to Celebrate Milestones With Our Grandchildren and Only One Word To Remember
June 12, 2018 By Leave a Comment
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 school, from … [Continue reading]
New Baby Clothing Made With Magnet Closures Make Middle of the Night Changes A Breeze
June 6, 2018 By Leave a Comment
Onesie footies are always the key for newborn and baby dress, although this grandma does love the gowns. Our daughter in law and son, with their … [Continue reading]
Grateful for the Fathers In Our Lives This Father’s Day 2018 Seventy Years After the Holocaust
May 30, 2018 By Leave a Comment
As I thought about this Father’s Day 2018, the year’s traumatic and potentially fatal health circumstances clearly highlighted thoughts of gratitude … [Continue reading]
Award Winning Outdoor Toys For 2018 Spring and Summer Fun
May 23, 2018 By Leave a Comment
Each year the Oppenheimer Toy Awards on Toy Portfolio give us guidance as to our toy purchases. Each year, it seems, it is harder to pry our … [Continue reading]
Why Boomers’ Lives May Depend On Paying attention To Oral Health and Periodontal Disease
May 16, 2018 By Leave a Comment
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 cancer. If … [Continue reading]
Senior Discounts Are No Joke and For the Best Senior Discounts You May Be “Carded” As You Were At Age Twenty One
May 8, 2018 By Leave a Comment
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 it would shock … [Continue reading]
Best 2018 Mother’s Day Gifts for Grandmothers and Great Grandmothers
May 1, 2018 By Leave a Comment
Each year this Grandma has tried to think of new and different Mother’s Day gifts that we grandmas might actually want to receive. Then I think back … [Continue reading]
How To Get The Yuck Out of the Ducks, Other Bath Toys and Items and The Bathtub Itself
April 24, 2018 By Leave a Comment
When this Grandma tries to get to the source of a series of articles, I find some really obscure on line journals. The one for the source of learning … [Continue reading]
Six Ways To Celebrate 2018 Earth Day and Earth Month With Grandchildren
April 20, 2018 By Leave a Comment
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 has now … [Continue reading]
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
April 17, 2018 By Leave a Comment
“23 and Me” ads are all over the television. So many people gifted this ancestry and their health genetic testing or other companies’ genetic testing … [Continue reading]
The Truths and Myths About Flu and Cold Survival You Need To Know When About on Earth and in the Air
April 13, 2018 By Leave a Comment
Grandpa and I are trying. We are trying to change habits to be safer in this cold and flu season. We are trying NOT to shake hands even when others … [Continue reading]
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
April 8, 2018 By Leave a Comment
"Six Degrees of Separation" a play and movie of our Boomer generation, written by American playwright John Guare, opened on Broadway in 1990, and was … [Continue reading]
Who Would Believe “Good Old Days” Would Be So Perfectly Described By a Thirty Four Year Old in Collaboration With a Thirty One Year Old
April 3, 2018 By Leave a Comment
Once our grandchildren began listening to pop music on the radio, and it was earlier than we realized, this Grandma convinced Grandpa that we too had … [Continue reading]
Unique Modern Art Gifts For Baby and Older Grandchildren
March 30, 2018 By Leave a Comment
We grandmas are always looking for unique gifts for our grandchildren and unique decor for their rooms. I have written about books on artists, and … [Continue reading]
Our Choice of Bread Defines Where We have Come From, Who We Are, and Sometimes Who We Aspire To Be
March 27, 2018 By 1 Comment
Our eleven year old granddaughter, visiting for spring break, asked for a sandwich. Ever the doting grandmother, I had purchased three different kinds … [Continue reading]
Teenagers are Like Two Year Old and We Must Remind the Parents of Our Grandchildren to Treat Them As Such
March 25, 2018 By 1 Comment
Oftentimes, in my twenty years as a family court judge, I found divorcing parents fighting over time with their teenagers. I was always confused. … [Continue reading]
Poop Should Not Be A Toy and We Grandparents Should Say Phooey to Poop Toys
March 20, 2018 By Leave a Comment
The article, “Toy Fair is Flush with Poo-inspired Games and Trinkets,” in the Washington Post February 24, 2018, by Mark Lennihan, has this Grandma … [Continue reading]
