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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
Best Gifts for Graduations From Preschool to Graduate School 2022
PopPop and I have a four year grandchild who has a “moving up” ceremony this week, moving up from the three’s to pre kindergarten. He is...
May 29, 20223 min read
The Best New Source For Artistic, Colorful, Modern Customized and Personalized Gifts for Every Occasion and Purpose is Kicks By Sammy
This Grandma immediately goes to one of three sources for personalized gifts, especially new baby gifts, Chad and Jake, Pottery Barn...
Apr 22, 20223 min read
The Best 2021 Holiday Presents for Our Preteen, Teenage, and College Aged Grandchildren and What They Want As Presents for The Holidays 2021
In 2014, I wrote a post, “What Our Grandchildren Want as Presents. Then I did not have college aged grandchildren or teenaged...
Dec 12, 20215 min read
When Grandma Able To Hug Grandchildren Becomes Miraculous
COVID-19. This grandma is so over it. A year out of our ives now is life changing. For we know enough to know how much of living life we...
Jan 31, 20212 min read
Grandma’s List of Five Best and Five Worst New Baby Gifts
After six grandchildren and many baby gifts, this Grandma has listened to her daughters rave and complain about baby gifts. Of course,...
Jan 16, 20215 min read
The Best and Worst About Our Grandchildren Safely Going To School This Coming School Year While the Pandemic, COVID-19, Is Still Among Us
This Grandma interviewed the three oldest grandchildren to preserve their memories about what life is like during the pandemic. The...
Jul 8, 20209 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
If Allowances Are A Tool To Teach About Money, How Grandparents’ “Bank” Is Perfect
The Harris Poll recently did a survey for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants about parents’ allowances for children,...
Oct 23, 20193 min read
I am one of the Boomer Women Who Personally Experienced Discrimination “On The Basis of Sex”
I just saw the movie,“On the Basis of Sex,” and cannot share the “wow” moment in the movie for me without spoiling the movie for you. I...
Jan 17, 20194 min read
We Boomers are Asking The Wrong Generation If They Want Our Possessions As We Downsize
We Boomers are downsizing, or so I hear in the news and media. Moreover, articles and advice columns about how our adult children do not...
Oct 17, 20184 min read
This Grandma Has Just Upped the Acceptable Marriage Age For Her Grandchildren
“Life is making choices and living with the consequences of the choices we make.” In Boomers’ parents’ age, that saying meant once you...
Aug 29, 20184 min read
Fourth Trimester and Optimal Age for Human Baby and Puppy Cuteness Optimization Are the Same
With two new baby grandsons, the difficulty of the new parent experience is relived. This Grandma equates it to being a hamster on a...
Jun 20, 20184 min read
Happiness is Now Taught In College As the Younger Generation Seems to Need Be Taught What Happiness
The big news across media platforms that are viewed by us Boomers is Professor Laurie Santos’s “Psychology and the Good Life,” course at...
Mar 10, 20183 min read
The Secrets of “Grandparents: The Grandbabies’ Great Reward” Revealed
Our dear grandparent friends whispered that they bought Florida Prepaid College Plans for each of their grandchildren upon each baby’s...
Jun 20, 20173 min read
Collage For Mother’s Day 2016 for Grandma To Make With Grandchildren
This Grandma loves to read the New York Times real estate section. I have done so for most of my adult life. One of my favorite...
May 5, 20162 min read
Hot Dogs Do Deserve Their Own National Day of Celebration
Hot dogs happen to rank among this Grandma’s favorite food. As a freshman in college in Boston, a bunch of us got an urge for a Nathan’s...
Sep 4, 20153 min read
Grandma’s Meaning of Old and Cold and Researching Slowing Time Leads to a Future Goal
An arctic blast has covered most of the U.S. Every state is cold. Being the Grandma in South Florida, just under sixty degrees means...
Dec 27, 20145 min read
Is Retiring in Place “Finding the Sweet Spot in Deciding Where to Retire”?
The article printed June 14, 2014 in the New York Times, “Finding the Sweet Spot in Deciding Where to Retire,” by Kerry Hannon, rehashed...
Jul 6, 20143 min read
Will I Ever Be a Grandma?
A friend recently lamented that her late thirty something child had not yet met a permanent mate. She worries, “Will I ever be a...
Mar 13, 20142 min read
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