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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...
3 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
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
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
Is there Anyone in the World, Including The Pope, Who Does Not Suffer From Imposter Syndrome?
Reading an article in the New York Times, May 1, 2025, about Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle, once leader of the Church in the...
May 133 min read
ChatGPT Wrote This Blog Post. Part One: What is ChatGPT and Why Do We Care? Can Chat GPT be useful
The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, April 6, 2023, had an article about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT that is scary for us...
Apr 13, 20234 min read
Grandchildren Will Love Easy To Make July Fourth Red, White and Blue Dessert Kebabs
When Fourth of July rolls around, it is great to come up with red, white, and blue desserts to make with grandchildren. As with all the...
Jul 2, 20222 min read
Our Teenage Granddaughter’s Award Winning Poem Brought Back the Reality that Being a Teenager is Hard Anytime,Harder During A Global Pandemic & We Grandparents Can Make It Easier Now and in the Future
During the COVID-19 coronavirus lock down period in March and April, 2020, I interviewed our older grandchildren, two aged 13 and one...
Apr 29, 20223 min read
What Family Vacations, Grandchildren, and Grandparent Electronics Lessons Have in Common
Not especially tech savvy, I wait for family vacations to pester our older grandchildren and ask their help to make my use of electronics...
Aug 15, 20213 min read
Winning the Battle But Losing the War By Failing to Follow Whatever New Parents’ Have As Their Rules
The headline on Fox News was: “Dad sends in-laws strict ‘guidelines’ for visiting newborn baby and it doesn’t go well” The author, Gerren...
Jul 22, 20215 min read
Father’s Day After the Pandemic Shutdown: Planning Get Togethers and More Gift Ideas
Last year, Father’s Day was like no other, and this Grandma acknowledged that with gifts appropriate to that experience. Father’s Day...
Jun 6, 20212 min read
Having The Best Selection of 2020 Holiday Gifts in One Article For Anyone in the World is the Best R
This Grandma, for this blog, keeps folders of different topics on my Ipad. Whenever I read something I want to keep, I put it in a...
Dec 10, 20204 min read
The Best of the Best 2020 Christmas and Chanukah Gifts for Everyone and Especially Grandchildren in This Far From the Best Year for Celebration
Thanksgiving 2020 took a toll. Not only could this Grandma not cook small enough for two, nothing tasted as good as when the entire...
Dec 3, 20206 min read
The Difference in American Life due to COVID-19 Between March and April 2020 and November 2020: Pandemic Loss of Memories and Sharing Life Passage Events Brings Tears
When the pandemic lockdown occurred March, 2020, I videotaped the three oldest grandchildren for them to save and look at their videos in...
Nov 5, 20205 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
The 2019 Most Popular Baby Names Have Few Surprises But the Biggest Surprise is How The Impact Of Cu
This Grandma loves seeing the Social Security Administration’s listing of the most popular baby names of the year. If you put the term...
Oct 15, 20203 min read
Halloween Celebration and Decorating in the Age of COVID-19 Coronavirus
Everything seems different and chaotic in this COVID-19 coronavirus time in our lives. Each year this Grandma buys Halloween costumes...
Oct 7, 20204 min read
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