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If A Boomer Cannot Immediately Bring to Mind A Date, Name, or Word Does Not Mean He or She Is Impaired, Challenged, Or Lacks Wisdom, Intelligence, Or Competence
This Grandma is getting angrier and angrier about ageism. According to the World Health Organization, “ageism refers to the stereotypes...
Feb 17, 20244 min read
We Boomer Grandparents Should Consider Being Realistic About Pet Adoption and Include Our Fur Babies
Now that the new year 2024 is upon us, let us make a resolution to take care of our pets so they are cared for forever. When PopPop and I...
Jan 21, 20245 min read
With U.S. Births Held Flat, Can We Boomers Expect to Be Grandparents, How Do We Help to Become Grandparents, and the Ambivalence About It
I distinctly remember exactly where I was when I first found out I was going to be a grandmother for the first time. I admit the...
Jun 17, 20234 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
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
When We Boomers, Our Adult Children, and Our Grandchildren Too, Need A Movie Bathroom Break Without
My mother insists that she toilet trained me at six months. I told her she was trained and could not go anywhere. My mother demurred....
Mar 3, 20233 min read
New Technology gives us a Self Driving Stroller If You Want To Spend As Much as We Boomers Spent on Our First Cars and After A Serious Look Arguably is Justified in 2023
When my father used to tell my brother and me that he bought a loaf of rye bread for a nickel, and we had to buy a loaf of rye bread for...
Jan 15, 20234 min read
Boomer Grandmother’s View on Being Comfortable With The Names You Call or Don’t Call Your In-Laws, The July 2022 On-Line Survey Results, and How To Earn Extra Cash Doing On-Line Surveys
When this Grandma was a newlywed, decades ago, what to call your in-laws was a major dilemma. I did not want to offend my parents by...
Dec 3, 20224 min read
Sneakerheads, Hypebeasts, and Other Groups Are New to Boomers But AntiSemitism is the Oldest Prejudice That Has Now Again Infiltrated Our American Culture
You know you are longer (we never say older) when some words your eleven year old grandson introduces you to and tries to explain are the...
Nov 6, 20225 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
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
Gratitude in the New Year 2022 For the Lifetime Benefit to Us Boomers of a Combination of Active, Daily Activities
This Grandma recently ran into a professional colleague I had not seen in nearly five years. It is hard to believe I am retired from the...
Jan 1, 20225 min read
The Children’s Song “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. . . “ Brings us To Three Important Tips For Boomer Grandparents’ “Eyes, Ears, Mouth, And Nose.”
Grandma loves the exercise and movement song to sing with grandchildren from toddlers to older than you would expect: Head, shoulders,...
Dec 24, 20214 min read
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 Grand
REMEMBER THESE TWELVE NAMES. 1.Joseph Mercola 2. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 3. Ty & Charlene Bollinger 4. Sherri Tenpenny 5. Rizza Islam 6....
Jul 31, 20217 min read
The Best Reason Our Grand babies Need More Sleep Than We Do: Chart of Sleep We Need By Age Group
This Grandma happened upon a great article on line, “How much sleep you need, depending on your age,” by Dana McMakin, May 14, 2021,...
Jun 24, 20213 min read
The Boomer’s Best Secret Weapon in America is Finally Being Appreciated and Respected
This Boomer Grandma has been hearing this for what seems like eons: Americans do not appreciate and sufficiently respect its elders....
Jun 13, 20214 min read
The 2019 Most Popular Baby Names Have Few Surprises But the Biggest Surprise is How The Impact Of Cu
This Grandma loves seeing the Social Security Administration’s listing of the most popular baby names of the year. If you put the term...
Oct 15, 20203 min read
It Is Wonderful It Is Not Only Boomers Who Feel Like We Are Losing It During the COVID-19 Pandemic
My friends and I who are Boomers keep sharing that we cannot remember what day it is and what we did yesterday, much less last week or...
Jul 15, 20207 min read
The Truth About Boomers Filling Each Day During the Coronavirus Pandemic, and Why It is Important to America’s Economy To Pay Attention to Us
It is May 2020, and we are in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19. We Boomers have been self isolating or quarantining since...
May 6, 20207 min read
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