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Four Simple Ways To Be More Positive and Grateful To Extend Longevity and Bring More Happiness to Your Life
This week, in Mah Jongg, someone laid out three tiles with two of them jokers. Jokers are a good thing in any game. Someone bemoaned that...
Feb 25, 20245 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


When As A Grandparent, You Are Asked If You Love The First Grandchild the Best
When the first grandchild is born, it is a life passage event for the parents, but it is also a life passage event for the grandparents. ...
Jan 1, 20203 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...
Jan 9, 20194 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...
Sep 26, 20184 min read


We Grandparents Should Be Thankful for the Grandchildren We Have Looking at Three Important Articles and A New Book as to Why Everyone Is Having Less Children And How We Can Grandparents Can Change Th
The recent news has bombarded this Grandma about how everyone in America is having less children. I must be thankful and grateful that I...
Aug 21, 20185 min read


Five Healthy Habits to Give Us Twelve to Fifteen Additional Years to Celebrate Milestones With Our Grandchildren and Only One Word To Remember
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...
Jun 12, 20183 min read


We Boomer Grandmas Know Time Flies As We Get Longer, Never Older, and Here is Why and What We Can Do About Slowing Time Down
The Washington Post answered the question for us why time flies, in the article. “Why half of the life you experience is over by age 7,”...
Nov 21, 20153 min read


Top Ten Places in the World With the Longest Life Expectancy At Birth
Twitter has really caught my interest. Getting interesting information in snipits is now in with this Grandma. I found the CNN post about...
Jul 21, 20152 min read


Experts Are Back to Play for Children As Important in Education
For two months in a row, the New York Times has had significant articles about new studies by scientists, education researchers and...
Jul 6, 20153 min read


Disney Princesses Precede Grandma’s High Heels, Jewelry and Makeup As a Treat For A Granddaughter
Spring cleaning season has passed so now it is time to have the guilt work so much that this Grandma gets into her closets and drawers....
Jul 2, 20152 min read


Grandma’s Changing Role and Relationship With Grandchildren As They and We Live Longer
This Grandma always says we never get older, we live longer. That is different with our grandchildren. They cannot seem to want to wait...
May 14, 20155 min read


NEAT and Five Extra Minutes As An Exercise Habit for Longevity for Grandma
This Grandma has an exercise routine. I actually started it when our eldest daughter announced her pregnancy. I had not exercised much...
Sep 11, 20145 min read


Does Becoming a Grandma Make Us Lose Brain Cells?
When Chelsea Clinton announced she was pregnant, the news media went right to whether Hillary Clinton could be president and a grandma...
May 26, 20142 min read


Nuts! Nuts! Nuts!
This Grandma did not know about nut allergies when her children were young. Now it seems that child nut allergies are rampant. A recent...
Mar 11, 20143 min read


Learning tricks from Grandma
This Grandma taught her eldest child to read at two years old. Okay, for those of us who were teachers at one time, I taught her...
Feb 1, 20143 min read


Grandma’s View on the Million Dollar Illusion
The New York Times, June 8, 2013, published an article by Jeff Sommer called, “For Retirees, A Million-Dollar Illusion.” You can find...
Aug 24, 20136 min read


Best ”Apples and Applesauce Playdate” with Grandma
I think you can see by now that this Grandma makes reservations. It seems the only time I actually cook or bake anymore, is to cook with...
Mar 20, 201313 min read


Grandma Agrees: Vacations Make Us All More Productive
This Grandma loves vacations. Who doesn’t? However, something I have suspected for a long time—that vacations make us more productive,...
Mar 18, 20135 min read


Grandma Cancer Alert: Too Many Young Women and Young Mothers with Breast Cancer
Women have been educated to know risk factors for breast cancer. Here is information from the Young Survival Coalition, Young Women...
Feb 26, 20137 min read
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