Grandpa and I are visiting our youngest grandchildren and watching them so their parents can have a weekend alone. It just so happens...

77 million people were born between 1946 and 1964, which is defined as the baby boomer era (U.S. Census). The first baby boomer turned...

Every year fathers get lots of things they do not need. Something that is always useful is a new duffle or suitcase. Here are this...

When, as a Grandma, I look back on my parenting years, I remember that raising and nurturing children was PART of my life. I also had a...

Newtown, Ct. is close to where our Connecticut grandchildren live. Visiting our grandchildren, this Grandma went to a school meeting...

Bingo has become our indoor multigenerational family game. No, really. We are going to the Disney Vero Beach Resort for a...

The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) celebrates its twentieth year in existence this year and was meant to be a first step toward a...

Good news for us Boomer Grandmas! In an article by Melissa Dahl, NBC News, “ Millenials Are the Most Stressed Out Generation, A new...

Until I read Bruce Feiler’s column, “This Life,” in the Sunday New York Times, February 3, 2013, I did not know there were bragging wars...

This Grandma was NOT going to comment on Marissa Mayer’s decision to end telecommuting at Yahoo! Inc and to require all employees to...

Tonight, I heard about a very unhappy Grandpa. He visited his son, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren, ages two and four last year...

My daughter, a lawyer and a mother, forwarded me an article by Devon Corneal, a lawyer and a mother, from the Huffington Post, on January...

My Mother had a saying which translates into, “keep your own troubles.” Every time I would complain about problems in my life, that is...

I was with a long (we never say old) friend recently at a professional event, and of course asked her and her husband about their seven...

Watching the Today Show on NBC on January 22, 2013, I saw Philip Galanes, New York Times columnist and author of the book, “Social Q’s:...

It is now nearly four weeks since the Newtown massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School and you would think the brutal news would not be...

I wish I came up with this title, but I didn’t. Bruce Feiler, the author of “The Secrets of Happy Families,” wrote a column with this...

One of the absolute best tips I received was to always be the grandma on the floor. Of course, I asked what that meant. My friend...

Raising children is difficult, time consuming, challenging–just plain HARD. There is a saying that if I knew how much fun it was to be a...