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Everything Friends: The Why, The How, How Many or Too Many, Social Media Impact, And, Ultimately, Wisdom As You Age
All of a sudden, or not so sudden with the domination of social media, and everybody in a group sitting on their phones rather than talking to each other, studies about everything about friends and friendships are everywhere. But are they helpful? The Why I was raised by two Holocaust survivors who believed that friends were those who turned you over to the Nazis, and only family members were the people you could depend on and with whom you should surround yourself. Leaving o
2 days ago5 min read
The Frick Collection and The Morgan Library in New York City - Why You Should You Go Yourself and Bring Your Children and Grandchildren to Visit Beauty in Art and Building From The Gilded Age
The photograph is a 1904 depiction of an acquisitive and manipulative Standard Oil (founded by John D. Rockefeller) as an all-powerful...
Sep 285 min read
Multigenerational Perfect Vacation in Crete and Santorini with Teens and Young Adults
This Grandma’s eighteen and nineteen year old grandchildren wanted a vacation in the Greek Islands and had no interest in Athens or the...
Sep 88 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
Child or Grandchild Heading to College This Fall? Best Tips for the Week Before College and the First Week of College
Some of us are of an age where our baby children and grandchildren are no longer, and our children and grandchildren are heading off to...
Jul 144 min read
This Grandma’s Favorite New Tip About Hugging Grandchildren, and Additional Five Best Tips on Personal Touch For All Ages and For Health Based On Scientific Research
This Grandma’s favorite tip about hugs is that you should never be the first to let go when you are hugging your grandchild. I learned...
Jun 164 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
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
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
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
After A Year of Living With the Pandemic, We Vaccinated Grandparents Share the Joy of Hugging Grandc
We grandparents have made it. We have lived through a year of the pandemic, COVID-19. We have been in isolation, one of worst parts of...
Apr 1, 20213 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
How Preteen and Teenage Grandchildren Are Like Cats
Grandparenting preteens and teenagers is different than any other grandparenting stage. Grandparenting babies, whether a long distance or...
Feb 14, 20194 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
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