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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
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Gifts 2025: Several Inexpensive New Travel Gifts and Kitchen Gadgets Those in Your Family Did Not Know Each Generation Wanted or Needed and One Splurge Item
There are so many idea articles for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, so this Grandma tried to think of a few new ideas for 2025. Of...
May 85 min read
Japan is the Now Destination to Take Your Children and Grandchildren and Here is the Best of the Best: Part I Cities to Visit and Where to Stay, Selection of the Tour Company and Guides
Why is Japan the NOW destination? According to the Wall Street Journal, the Japanese yen has lost one third of its value against the U.S....
May 18 min read
The Five Best Rules and Regulations For In-Law Parents and All Grandparents That Make Them The Indispensable Go-To Grandparents
Why does this Grandma use the terms “rules and Regulations” and for “in-law parents”? If you, the reader, are asking, then you are new to...
Oct 27, 20234 min read
When Does A Widow Take Off Her Wedding Band and How to Provide Support In the Grieving Process With Compassion
My blog, www.grandmother-blog.com, has evolved over almost a dozen years, from just being about grandmothering, to grandparenting,...
Jul 16, 20234 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
Stephen Fred Goldenberg AKA PopPop Obituary
For our children and grandchildren, PopPop’s obituary was published in the Sun Sentinel, Sunday, March 11, 2023. It will always be on...
Mar 18, 20233 min read
Please Do Not Wait To Tell Your Loved Ones What They Mean to You
We grandparents are at the age when it is getting harder to say we are young. When age 80 is closer than I want to admit, although I work...
Jan 1, 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
The Five Most Important Reasons Why and When NOT To Put Wedding and Family Photographs Away When The Parents of Our Grandchildren Get Divorced
I have addressed this issue before, and seems that it is time to address it again. Sometimes simple answers do not provide a complete...
Nov 13, 20224 min read
The Six Episodes of A Real Marriage of Movie Icons Paul Newman and JoAnn Woodward Will Provide Insight That Can Improve Your Own Relationship
As a family court judge, I served to dissolve tens of thousands of marriages over twenty years. Ethan Hawke (I had heard of him but knew...
Aug 13, 20225 min read
Honoring My Mother-In-Law Today and Forever
Ten years ago, I wrote a blog post about my mother-in-law, “My Mother-in-Law, the Star,” honoring her and everything about her which made...
Nov 6, 20216 min read
The Five Most Important Reasons Why and When NOT To Put Wedding and Family Photographs Away When The
In the May 18, 2021, Washington Pos t, Ms. Manners answered the following question at the end of her advice column: “Dear Miss Manners:...
Aug 8, 20213 min read
Weekly Zoom With the Family Is A Positive Benefit of the Pandemic
GG (Great Grandmother) Lee is 97 years old. We got her an IPad years ago as a birthday present and she is pretty proficient. Since the...
Feb 25, 20213 min read
Grandma’s List of Five Best and Five Worst Toddler Toys and Gifts
After six grandchildren and many toddler gifts, this Grandma has listened to her daughters and daughter-in-law rave and complain about...
Jan 23, 20215 min read
Board Games Are Selling Out in the Pandemic So Buy Early to Get The Best For Everyone in the Family
Now that we all are spending more time at home, the news today included that we may have another run on toilet paper as the coronavirus...
Oct 29, 20204 min read
Seven Great On Line Shopping Tips During COVID-19 or Anytime to Get the Best at the Best Price
In this time of COVID-19, spending more time in our homes, we are not only cleaning closets and reorganizing, we are looking to change or...
Aug 12, 20209 min read
The Four Ways The Pandemic COVID-19 Even Affects Our Celebration of National Ice Cream Month
July is National Ice Cream Month. That makes sense. July is the highlight month of the summer, with July 4th and summer vacations and...
Jul 22, 20205 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
The Six Best Tips for Car Travel in the Time of Coronavirus, Covid-19
With the corona virus pandemic, we do not want to leave the house, much less travel any distance. Yes, staying home is getting old. But,...
Jun 17, 202010 min read
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