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Copy of Zoom Face is A Real Thing And Affects More Than We Realize, Which May Include When To Have the COVID
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...
Jun 30, 20243 min read
In the Midst of Worldwide Jewish Tsuris (Troubles), This Jewish Grandmother Adheres to Extinguishing the Darkness By Focusing on Light and Moral Clarity
It is not without irony that 2024 has brought us Jews worldwide tsuris (the Yiddish word for troubles), and also upheaval for the rest of...
Feb 11, 20244 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
Fast and Easy Halloween Cookies and Special Treats for 2022, Halloween Treats for Babies, Healthy,
After looking at literally dozens of articles on Halloween cookies and treats of all kinds, this Grandma has curated those fast and easy...
Oct 16, 20223 min read
Take the Spookiness Out of Halloween 2021 with A Celebration of National Cookie Month
Halloween was and is always special to this Grandma. It enabled me, as a long distance grandma, to help select and buy Halloween costumes...
Oct 24, 20214 min read
Blue Colors Are So Different To Learn and Paint with Grandchildren and A Special Blue is Pantone’s C
Every year this Grandma loves learning about the Pantone choice of “Color of the Year.” This year, Pantone’s newly created blue, called...
Feb 19, 20204 min read
Our Granddaughter’s Twinning at Yad Vashem’s Special Bar and Bat Mitzvah Tour And You Can Do it For Your Teen Too, In Your Home Town, Without Going to Jerusalem, Israel
Holocaust Education is mandated in many states and children all over the United States are taught the horrors of targeting people just...
Sep 4, 20194 min read
What this Grandma, Meghan Markle and Peppa Pig Have In Common Seems to Be the Big News Currently and
When I immigrated to the United States with my parents, I was six months old. Although my mother (GG Frieda) insisted that I was toilet...
May 29, 20195 min read
How the 2019 Color of the Year and A Daily Dose of Dark Chocolate Are Connected
Each year, this Grandma looks forward to some annually repeated news releases that some might think are trivial. I love the information...
Feb 27, 20193 min read
Memorializing Family Rituals and Traditions in the New Year 2019
The last two years, this Grandma’s New Year’s posts have been heavy and emotionally taxing. See post, 2018 New Year’s Resolutions...
Dec 31, 20185 min read
Fourth of July is Over, So Why Should We Care For July 4th 2019 What Was Wrought in 2018?
This Grandma, a naturalized citizen, is very patriotic. Yes, the red, white and blue of July 4th are very important. Only PopPop and I...
Jul 10, 20183 min read
Preserving Family History Leads To Much Less than Six Degrees of Separation with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Future Connecting With the Significant Past
“Six Degrees of Separation” a play and movie of our Boomer generation, written by American playwright John Guare, opened on Broadway in...
Apr 8, 20189 min read
Our Choice of Bread Defines Where We have Come From, Who We Are, and Sometimes Who We Aspire To Be
Our eleven year old granddaughter, visiting for spring break, asked for a sandwich. Ever the doting grandmother, I had purchased three...
Mar 27, 20184 min read
At What Age Will Our Grandchildren Remember Their Childhood Trips and Adventures With Us
This Grandma loves our multi generational trips and adventures which began when our first grandson was a toddler. Our first trip was to...
Apr 14, 20172 min read
Yiddish Words That Will Serve You well In Life and ToTranscend Generations From the Past to the Future
This Grandma, born in a displaced person’s camp in Germany, knew the power of the Yiddish language from the phrases my parents used and...
Oct 29, 20168 min read
Halloween 2016: Continuing Rituals and Traditions and New Rages
One of this Grandma’s mantras is to create rituals and traditions with grandchildren because that is what they will remember from their...
Oct 7, 20164 min read
Grandma as the Storyteller and the Importance of Rituals and Traditions for Our Grandchildren
This Grandma just had the privilege of visiting Canyon Ranch in Tucson. On the way to their Health and Healing Center, I came upon a...
Oct 20, 20154 min read
Red Yarn Passed from Generation to Generation is Great Riches
My mother, GG (great grandmother) died in 2005. Before she died, she gave me a ball of red yarn and told me it was now my duty as the...
Mar 5, 20153 min read
Dominoes Connect Grandmas Through the Centuries and Make Great Holiday Gifts for grandchildren
I remember playing dominoes as a child and my brother and I built with them and we played games with them with our parents. If you have...
Nov 19, 20143 min read
The Grandma Glue: Keeping Families Together for Holiday Rituals and Traditions
My Mother always said that the matriarch in the family is the glue. It is the job of the matriarch to keep family traditions and...
Mar 24, 20133 min read
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