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Feb 17, 20244 min read
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...


Oct 21, 20234 min read
Invaluable Advice From Two Masters on Traveling Throughout Your Life
This Grandma is a child of Holocaust survivors. My mother was the only survivor of her village in Poland.* My father, a survivor of the...


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
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...


Jan 1, 20225 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...

Oct 30, 20213 min read
From Facebook About How Living Longer Brings Learning and Wisdom To Share to Improve Quality of Life
This Grandma is new to social media. When I was a sitting judge in Florida, I was constrained from participating in social media. I...


Apr 26, 20193 min read
One Day University is Just Enough Of Lifelong Learning To Keep Our Boomer Brains Blossoming
Once Grandpa and I finally settled into semi-retirement mode, we started paying attention to our friends who had preceded us into leisure...


Feb 23, 20184 min read
Inter-generational Friendships and Paying It Forward In the Decades of Life
Hearing my oldest daughter appreciate advice she received from someone who is a decade older who has already been through what my...


Jan 12, 20184 min read
If I Knew I Were Dying, What Would I Want To Talk About Now
Last year, I wrote a blog post titled, “If I Knew I Were Dying, What Would I Want To Talk About Now.” I had then recently watched, The...


Oct 13, 20175 min read
Top Five Tips for Planning The Perfect Travel Experiences for the First Three Years Of Retirement
This Grandma and Grandpa have a bucket list of seeing all of the wonders of the world. Just when we thought we had completed seeing all...


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...


Jan 5, 20174 min read
Entering the Unknown World of Retirement and the New Busy as a Baby Boomer Grandma
This Grandma is beginning a new adventure, the unknown world of retirement. It seems that as a Baby Boomer, at every stage of this...


Nov 17, 20163 min read
How Many Visits To Grandma Are Too Many
It has taken this Grandma a while to ponder “Judge John Hodgman on Too Many Trips to Ohio With Your Baby,” originally published in the...


Sep 19, 20163 min read
“Young Old,” Wiser, Happier and More From Which Those Not As Fortunate in Years Can Learn
I never in a million years could imagine it could be. In younger years, I could not imagine reaching age 70. In younger years, I thought...


Apr 29, 20165 min read
Five Reasons Why Boomers CAN Move “Old Old” Up to At Least Age Ninety
This Grandma listens to her elders. They have the wisdom and experience of long years. GG (Great Grandmother), my mother-in-law, now...


Feb 8, 20162 min read
If Grandma’s Brother Did Not Know Of These Tax Breaks for Newly Retired, Then They Must Be Very Special, Or Just Move to Florida
My brother has been a business whiz since before he was a teenager. He is the long time business advisor for family and friends alike....


Feb 2, 20164 min read
The Number of the First Baby Boomers Turning 70 in 2016 is Mindboggling and So Are The Changes We Faced and Face Today
So many of my Boomer grandma friends refuse to read the AARP Bulletin. I find it fascinating and the information helpful to my life....


Jan 16, 20168 min read
As Grandmas Do We End Up Moving Closer to the Parents of Our Grandchildren and Our Grandchildren Or Do They Move Closer to Us Leads to a Weighty Decision for Boomers
Nearing a half century ago, one set of our parents moved to South Florida before us when we were in our twenties. We visited this...


Aug 13, 20154 min read
Seven Reasons Why You Should Not Retire to Florida From A Long Time Boomer Grandma of South Florida
Those of us Boomers in Florida knew it was bound to happen after this past long hard winter. After all, the snow in Boston Harbor did not...


Mar 23, 20153 min read
It IS a Grandma Thing to Leave Membership in the Flip Phone Caucus Behind
Reading the New York Times, March 11, 2015, this Grandma got a chuckle at the article about Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Charles...
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