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We grandparents love to spend time with our grandchildren. My grandchildren range from age 7 to age 22, and each of the six is special in his or her own way.  Five of them  are Generation Z or “Zoomers”, between 14 and 29 years old, the first true digital generation, knowing and living with smartphones and social media attached to them at the hip, and finding anything that will grab their attention otherwise is a miracle. Enter the miracle of American Mah Jongg!  And auspicio

I have just returned from a memoir writing workshop retreat, called “Write By the Lake,” at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, with Joyce Maynard. A long (we never say old) dear friend, Valerie, went exactly one year ago and told me to immediately sign up. I did.   As I learned at the retreat, I am making a list of the words that describe the experiences of spending a week in rural and rugged Guatemala at Lake Atitlan and with Joyce Maynard, surrounded by thirty- four varieties of bird

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, was January 27, commemorating the genocide of two thirds of the European Jewish population by the German Nazis. This is the day which aligns with the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in which over 1.2 million Jews were murdered. My Mother was a Holocaust survivor of five work concentration camps in Poland. She survived the unspeakable, and screamed of it