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Buzzfeed Listed Indispensable and Inexpensive Products For Parents That Will Make Grandparents Lives Easier Too So Buy For Their Home Too
This Grandma has become a Buzzfeed fan. I first saw the car seat opener, that is incredible and even easy for a mechanically challenged...
Dec 21, 20233 min read
Where Do You Fall In the Controversy Over Clear Plastic or Bullet Proof School Backpacks For Our Grandchildren or Neither At All
It is easy to want to put school shootings out of your mind. Then school starts and the issue is again in front of you or put in front...
Oct 3, 20234 min read
Reading and Writing Cursive May No Longer be Taught to Our Grandchildren: An Easy Three Step Process For Grandparents to Teach Grandchildren How to Create A Cursive Signature of Their Own
When this Grandma was a child, I remember hearing about how some would mark their signature with an X because they could not read or...
Jul 29, 20235 min read
We Boomers are Asking The Wrong Generation If They Want Our Prized Possessions As We Do Our Spring Cleaning or Downsize
We Boomers are downsizing, or so I continually hear in the news and media. Moreover, especially during spring cleaning time, articles...
Jun 10, 20235 min read
The Best Relationship Advice of Two Questions This Grandma Has Learned to Share With Grandchildren
QUESTION NUMBER ONE Do you want to be helped, heard or hugged? How many times has someone dear to us been upset and we mistake their...
Jun 3, 20234 min read
ChatGPT Wrote This Blog Post. Part II. How Can We Boomers and Grandparents Use ChatGPT for information and writing? Can Chat GPT be useful to Boomers and grandparents who want to share family history
After reading The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, April 6, 2023, article about ChatGPT, “The Robots Have Finally Come For My Job,” by Greg...
Apr 22, 20237 min read
Archives Must Reads For New Grandparents: Part I Grandma Lessons and Tips
A dear long friend, who is becoming a grandma for the first time, asked me to give her my must reads for new grandmas from my archives. I...
Mar 12, 20231 min read
In Our Society, Most Teenagers and Preteens Have Seen Online Pornography, Hear Pornographic Lyrics, A Six Year Old Child Shot His Teacher, and That is Not The Worst of It
When my grandchildren are in the car with me, I always have Pop Hits I on Sirius. I want to relate to them and their music. . . or so I...
Feb 16, 20236 min read
Truth, Like Beauty, Is In The Eye Of the Beholder And The Best Advice I Ever Received On How To Keep Your Truth To Yourself
I first started writing this blog because my Judicial Assistant, who became and is a dear long (we never say old) friend, was going to...
Jan 27, 20236 min read
Why and How Instagram Taught Me To Search “Life Hacks” For Simple Solutions to Daily Tasks. Who Knew How Really Helpful Ice Cubes Can Be
Instagram taught me to search “Life Hacks” on Google for simple solutions to daily tasks! Instagram is an application (app) that my...
Jan 7, 20233 min read
Should I Be The Grandma on the Floor No More
One of the absolute best tips I received as a new grandma almost two decades ago was to always be the grandma on the floor. Of course, I...
Nov 27, 20222 min read
To Text, Message, Contact, “Like,” Just Because You Are Thinking of Someone Improves the Quality of Your Life, Especially for Boomers
COVID has necessarily caused us to be distant. Even now when I bump into someone in public who I have not seen in a while who I normally...
Aug 20, 20224 min read
To Text, Message, Contact, “Like,” Just Because You Are Thinking of Someone Improves the Quality of Your Life, Especially for Boomers
COVID has necessarily caused us to be distant. Even now when I bump into someone in public who I have not seen in a while who I normally...
Jul 29, 20224 min read
What Day(s) of the Week and What Time(s) Can I Leave My House To Most Likely Avoid A Mass Shooting in 2022
What is safety in 2022? Safety enough to go to the local supermarket….or a local July 4th parade in a suburb with not a single murder...
Jul 17, 20225 min read
Four Important Tips Regarding What to Do in An Active Shooter Event and What We Grandparents and Our Grandchildren’s Parents Can Begin To Do To Be Proactively Preventive Regarding School Shootings
The Uvalde school massacre has done this Grandma in. I want to address two important tips we parents and grandparents need to know now...
Jun 8, 20226 min read
Zoom Face is A Real Thing And Affects More Than We Realize, Which May Include When To Have the COVID Vaccine or Boosters
Going on our third year into pandemic life, we’re all still adjusting mentally and physically to this abnormal state. Many of us feel the...
May 8, 20223 min read
Our Teenage Granddaughter’s Award Winning Poem Brought Back the Reality that Being a Teenager is Hard Anytime,Harder During A Global Pandemic & We Grandparents Can Make It Easier Now and in the Future
During the COVID-19 coronavirus lock down period in March and April, 2020, I interviewed our older grandchildren, two aged 13 and one...
Apr 29, 20223 min read
What Message Are You Giving Your Children and Grandchildren About Living Life
Life and Death And Survival Among Jews these words resonate, as through history Jews and Jewish families have had to face the threat of...
Mar 18, 20227 min read
We Grandparents Have the Opportunity To Expand the Universe For Us and Our Grandchildren By Sharing the Journey of the Miraculous Space Marvel, The Webb Telescope, and Its Discoveries To Come
Grandparents can open grandchildren’s eyes to marvels of the world and expand their horizons, and in this case expand the universe for...
Jan 29, 20223 min read
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
This Grandma, now retired, has the time daily and I read the local newspaper, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the New York Times, the...
Jan 15, 20223 min read
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