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Sep 16, 20234 min read
Dirt, Nuts, Bad Hygiene and Habits Such As Nail Biting and Thumb Sucking May Have A Benefit After All And Newest Technique to Try to Replace Those Behaviors
Whenever a parent of a grandchild is worried about something the grandchild is or is not doing, such as sleeping through the night, or...
May 20, 20233 min read
Menopause is in the News Again But Where Are the Advancements to Address It: Each Woman For Herself
This is the third blog post this Grandma has written on menopause. Menopause is in the news again but where are the advancements to...
Oct 17, 20214 min read
Little Known Natural Helpful Tips For Living With Palpitations, Dizziness, and Low Blood Pressure
This Grandma loves Western medicine and Eastern medicine alternatives. Although I hate needles, I have found acupuncture helpful at...
Oct 9, 20214 min read
COVID-19 shots For Kids 5-12 A No Brainer: What You May Not Know And Should Share
PFIZER HAS OFFICIALLY ASKED THE FDA TO AUTHORIZE THE COVID-19 VACCINE FOR KIDS AGED 5-11 AND AUTHORIZATION SHOULD BE FORTHCOMING SOON....
Aug 21, 20216 min read
Good News For Us Postmenopausal Chocoholics: An Extra Large Milk Chocolate Bar Twice A Day Is Found
This Grandma is an unapologetic chocoholic. As I previously shared, I fed my first baby warmed chocolate fudge at three months old, one...
Jul 17, 20214 min read
Good News For Us Postmenopausal Chocoholics: An Extra Large Milk Chocolate Bar Twice A Day Is Found
This Grandma is an unapologetic chocoholic. As I previously shared, I fed my first baby warmed chocolate fudge at three months old, one...
May 8, 20212 min read
The One Major Impetus For Our Friends and relatives To Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19 As Soon As It Is Available To Them
There are risks to each of our choices as whether to vaccinate or not vaccinate for COVID-19. To think there are no risks is risky. We...
Sep 9, 20205 min read
The Best Idea For Maintaining Close Contact With Grandchildren During Covid-19 Comes From An Unexpec
PopPop, and I, as long distance grandparents, made it our business to visit our grandchildren often when they were younger, about every...
Aug 19, 202010 min read
A New Scientific Study Shows How We Grandparents Cause Ill Will Between Us and the Parents of Our Gr
“Half of Parents Report Butting Heads with Child’s Grandparent Over Parenting,” is a new study from C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital...
Aug 5, 20205 min read
Marvelous, Outrageous, Extraordinary, and Maybe Some Useful Face Masks In the Mix to Make or Choose From for the Present and Future
Although we are loathe to consider it, it seems that face masks are going to be a means of remaining safe from the coronavirus, COVID-19,...
Jul 29, 20206 min read
Let Us Not Forget We are Living Through History In the Making and The Generations That Come After Will Never Forget Us
We are living through history in the making and the generations that come after will never forget us. We are not only passively living...
Jul 15, 20207 min read
It Is Wonderful It Is Not Only Boomers Who Feel Like We Are Losing It During the COVID-19 Pandemic
My friends and I who are Boomers keep sharing that we cannot remember what day it is and what we did yesterday, much less last week or...
Jul 1, 20203 min read
A Humorous and Profound View on What We Have Learned from Covid-19: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
A friend who is an outstanding writer shared an article she wrote for her local community newsletter and gave me permission to share it...
May 27, 20206 min read
Grandparents May Be the Answer To The War Against Vaccines
Beginning around 2013, I read that the Russians first tried a social media campaign against vaccination in the United States as a test to...
May 6, 20207 min read
The Truth About Boomers Filling Each Day During the Coronavirus Pandemic, and Why It is Important to America’s Economy To Pay Attention to Us
It is May 2020, and we are in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19. We Boomers have been self isolating or quarantining since...
Apr 8, 20203 min read
What Will Our Grandchildren Remember About Living Through The Coronavirus Pandemic COVID-19 and How To Memorialize their Memories With Them and For Them
During this time of the coronavirus pandemic, my dear friends and I reminisce about our childhoods and early adulthoods and the...
Mar 18, 20206 min read
Dear Grandchildren, The Year 2020 is Cancelled
This Grandma just got off the telephone with our oldest grandson, age 16, a junior in high school. It is March 16, 2020 at the end of...
Mar 11, 20207 min read
Seven Positives From Coronavirus Virus Outbreak For Boomers and Those The CDC Has Told to Stay Home
Since the Coronovirus has reached our shores, it is we Boomers who have most negatives in relation to the outbreak. We are over the age...
Mar 4, 20205 min read
IMPORTANT FLU AND CORONAVIRUS PREPARATION AND INFORMATION TO PASS ALONG: Boomers at Great Risk
Hopefully, one day we Boomers will look at this time of lack of information, lack of testing available, and lack of consistent knowledge...
Feb 26, 20205 min read
The Wuhan Coronavirus has Arrived in the United States: LINKS FOR UPDATES With What We Grandparents
Being Boomers, we grandparents have many generations to worry about with the flu and viruses. PopPop’s mother is 96 years old. Our...
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