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Nov 3, 20235 min read
The Truth Is Most Painful
My Mother, a Holocaust survivor, experienced inhumanity to man that I would wish on no one. She raised me with tikkun olam (meaning...


Aug 21, 20216 min read
Good News For Us Postmenopausal Chocoholics: An Extra Large Milk Chocolate Bar Twice A Day Is Found
This Grandma is an unapologetic chocoholic. As I previously shared, I fed my first baby warmed chocolate fudge at three months old, one...


Jul 17, 20214 min read
Good News For Us Postmenopausal Chocoholics: An Extra Large Milk Chocolate Bar Twice A Day Is Found
This Grandma is an unapologetic chocoholic. As I previously shared, I fed my first baby warmed chocolate fudge at three months old, one...


Apr 1, 20206 min read
Twelve Tips on How We Grandparents Can Help the Parents of Our Grandchildren Survive Home 24-7 With Their Children
This Grandma tells the parents of our grandchildren that if they lament that a grandchild is behind in a skill or learning that the...


Mar 11, 20207 min read
Seven Positives From Coronavirus Virus Outbreak For Boomers and Those The CDC Has Told to Stay Home
Since the Coronovirus has reached our shores, it is we Boomers who have most negatives in relation to the outbreak. We are over the age...


Jun 5, 20197 min read
We Boomers Are in Medical La La Land If We Do Not Expect Medical Issues To Permeate Our Lives Now and NUMBER ONE TIP For Medical Survival Through Our Seventies
This Grandma has been living in medical La La Land. GG (Great Grandmother, now age 95) said live to the fullest and travel in ‘Young Old’...


Mar 7, 20196 min read
Best Four Tips We Boomer Women Should Share About Menopause and Beyond
This Grandma has written about how we should have friends that are at least ten years older than us so we can learn what faces us in life...


Jan 9, 20194 min read
Goal Setting & Pursuing Your Passionate Purpose In The New Year! From An Expert Health & Wellness Coach
Just too few years ago, our younger daughter re-introduced us to a high school friend with whom she reconnected. As we of long years...


Nov 15, 20183 min read
Boomers Protein Needs Are So Much More Than We Know For Optimum Muscle Mass and Longevity
Selection of pulses on porcelain spoons on checkered tablecloth with copy space This Grandma has found that we Boomers are beyond the...


Sep 26, 20184 min read
Silver Sneakers and Boomers’ Best Medicare Free Fitness Benefit or Not
If you have not heard of Silver Sneakers, join the club. You will want to join the Silver Sneakers club, as I did, when I heard about...


May 16, 20183 min read
Why Boomers’ Lives May Depend On Paying attention To Oral Health and Periodontal Disease
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...


Mar 10, 20183 min read
Happiness is Now Taught In College As the Younger Generation Seems to Need Be Taught What Happiness
The big news across media platforms that are viewed by us Boomers is Professor Laurie Santos’s “Psychology and the Good Life,” course at...


Dec 19, 20174 min read
Holiday Gifts for Grandparents Should Include All Kinds of Balls Which Will Contribute to Our Health
In 2014, this Grandma wrote a blog post about “Two New Easy Ways for Boomers To Measure Our Youth for Our Age and Good Health and How to...


Nov 29, 20173 min read
How to Make Shopping in the Mall with Grandchildren of All Ages and Sexes a Pleasurable Experience
When our daughters were small, they hated going shopping with me. It was a chore for them to accompany me, even if it was for clothing...


Aug 10, 20173 min read
The Five Love Languages Apply to Grandchildren Too
At a professional luncheon, a few years ago, a new mother, a forty something marital and family lawyer, asked me if I had read the book...


Jul 4, 20172 min read
A Documentary We Boomer Grandparents Should Watch and Learn Wellness From, “If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast”
What a combination of interesting people! This HBO Documentary, “ If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast ” is the cleverest special...


Jun 6, 20176 min read
Best Father’s Day Gender Neutral Gifts For Grandfathers and Great Grandfathers And Using this Holiday
Each year, before this Grandma writes posts for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, I scour the newspapers, magazines, and internet for...


Jun 1, 20175 min read
Why This Grandma Thinks Procrastination is A Disease of Retirement And The Cure
This Grandma prides herself on a lifetime of organization and the ability to multi task and get things done. I hate “To Do” lists and...


Feb 18, 20176 min read
The New Eleventh Reason for Daily Stretching At The Forefront of the Exercise Craze for Children as Well As Adults is the POWER Benefit That is the Most Important Of All
All of a sudden, stretching is considered as important as exercise. Even if one does not exercise, the recommendation to stretch each...


Oct 20, 20165 min read
How Long Can We Go: The Definition of Aging Other Than the Passage of Years And Our “Health Span
This Grandma is compulsive about much, and reading as many articles about studies on aging is one of those compulsions that seems to grow...
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