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The New Trauma for the Parents of Our Baby Grandchildren and How We Grandparents Have the Key to Alleviate the Angst
There is a new trauma for the parents of our baby grandchildren and we grandparents have the key to alleviate the angst. The controversy...
2 days ago4 min read
The Doctor Dilemma We Boomers Pass On To Our Children and Grandchildren Part II: Treatment, Insurance and Medicare
As I reflected in Part I, regarding the doctor dilemma we Boomers pass on to our children and grandchildren, it took this Grandma one...
Aug 127 min read
The Doctor Dilemma We Boomers Pass On To Our Children and Grandchildren Part I: The State of Medicine, Doctor Issues, and Prevention
It took this Grandma one year to get an appointment with a well-regarded ophthalmologist who specializes in cataract surgery at Bascom...
Aug 46 min read
Travel Abroad With MEDJET’S Air Medical Transportation, Plus Worldwide Travel Security, Crisis Response and Evacuation Services Available to Travelers Who are Boomers Ages 75-84 and Age 85+
With what is happening in world travel now, it is important for this Grandma to introduce those of you who are unaware to MEDJET. PopPop...
Jul 216 min read
London As The Gateway To Zurich for a Multigenerational Vacation With Abundant Chocolate Experiences and A Surprise of Four Countries in One Day. Part II ZURICH AND SWITZERLAND WITH GRANDCHILDREN
Part II ZURICH AND SWITZERLAND WITH GRANDCHILDREN With Abundant Chocolate Experiences and A Surprise of Four Countries in One Day. Two...
Jul 78 min read
London As The Gateway To Zurich for a Multigenerational Vacation With Abundant Chocolate Experiences and A Surprise of Four Countries in One Day. Part I LONDON WITH GRANDCHILDREN Anew
Part I LONDON WITH GRANDCHILDREN Anew* Two grandchildren, ages fourteen and seventeen, and their seventeen year old family friend joining...
Jun 308 min read
How Do You Know the Day That You Become Old?
When interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Warren Buffett, now 94 years old, was asked, “how did you know the day that you became old?”...
Jun 93 min read
It was the Actresses Who Worked With Spanish Film Director, Screenwriter and Author Pedro Almodovar Who Made This Widow Finally Cry
It is actually just now two years, two months, and three days since my husband died and I became a widow. You learn a lot becoming a...
Jun 13 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...
Feb 17, 20244 min read
We Boomer Grandparents Should Consider Being Realistic About Pet Adoption and Include Our Fur Babies
Now that the new year 2024 is upon us, let us make a resolution to take care of our pets so they are cared for forever. When PopPop and I...
Jan 21, 20245 min read
With U.S. Births Held Flat, Can We Boomers Expect to Be Grandparents, How Do We Help to Become Grandparents, and the Ambivalence About It
I distinctly remember exactly where I was when I first found out I was going to be a grandmother for the first time. I admit the...
Jun 17, 20234 min read
We Boomers are Asking The Wrong Generation If They Want Our Prized Possessions As We Do Our Spring Cleaning or Downsize
We Boomers are downsizing, or so I continually hear in the news and media. Moreover, especially during spring cleaning time, articles...
Jun 10, 20235 min read
ChatGPT Wrote This Blog Post. Part II. How Can We Boomers and Grandparents Use ChatGPT for information and writing? Can Chat GPT be useful to Boomers and grandparents who want to share family history
After reading The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, April 6, 2023, article about ChatGPT, “The Robots Have Finally Come For My Job,” by Greg...
Apr 22, 20237 min read
When We Boomers, Our Adult Children, and Our Grandchildren Too, Need A Movie Bathroom Break Without
My mother insists that she toilet trained me at six months. I told her she was trained and could not go anywhere. My mother demurred....
Mar 3, 20233 min read
New Technology gives us a Self Driving Stroller If You Want To Spend As Much as We Boomers Spent on Our First Cars and After A Serious Look Arguably is Justified in 2023
When my father used to tell my brother and me that he bought a loaf of rye bread for a nickel, and we had to buy a loaf of rye bread for...
Jan 15, 20234 min read
Boomer Grandmother’s View on Being Comfortable With The Names You Call or Don’t Call Your In-Laws, The July 2022 On-Line Survey Results, and How To Earn Extra Cash Doing On-Line Surveys
When this Grandma was a newlywed, decades ago, what to call your in-laws was a major dilemma. I did not want to offend my parents by...
Dec 3, 20224 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
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...
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
We Boomers Have Been Waiting For the Exciting New Global News Organization Going to Be Started By Ben Smith, Media Columnist for the New York Times, and Justin Smith, Bloomberg Media Chief Executive
This Grandma, now retired, has the time daily and I read the local newspaper, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the New York Times, the...
Jan 15, 20223 min read
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