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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
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...
May 8, 20212 min read
We Grandparents Want to Share That The Best Time of Life Comes After a Lifetime of Living
During the pandemic PopPop records programs to watch and I keep a list of Netflix and Amazon programming, which we cannot prerecord. ...
Apr 17, 20215 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...
Sep 9, 20205 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 19, 202010 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,...
Aug 5, 20205 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 29, 20206 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 15, 20207 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...
Jul 1, 20203 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 27, 20206 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...
May 6, 20207 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...
Apr 8, 20203 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 18, 20206 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...
Mar 4, 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...
Feb 26, 20205 min read
Grandma’s Top Five Cleanliness in Public Tips For Grandchildren
When our eldest was being toilet trained, she fixated on only using the home toilet. We had to return home for her to go or, the good...
Oct 30, 20196 min read
Four of the Best Supplements and Medications for Boomers and Others to Discuss With Their Doctors To
After all of the television commercials that advertise medications and supplements to discuss with your doctors if and as appropriate to...
Jul 24, 20194 min read
Now That I Am in My Seventies I Understand Why No One Tells You the Truth About How To Optimize Life in Your Seventies
When I was about to hit seventy, GG Lee’s (Great Grandmother age 95) mantra was hitting home. She said live your life to its fullest...
Jun 19, 20196 min read
We Boomers Are in Medical La La Land If We Do Not Expect Medical Issues To Permeate Our Lives Now and NUMBER ONE TIP For Medical Survival Through Our Seventies
This Grandma has been living in medical La La Land. GG (Great Grandmother, now age 95) said live to the fullest and travel in ‘Young Old’...
Jun 5, 20197 min read
Petting Zoo Animals Can Transmit Highly Virulent Drug Resistant Bacteria to Children and Best Tips i
That petting zoo animals can transmit highly virulent drug resistant bacteria to children is not what this Grandma wanted to read on...
May 2, 20193 min read
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