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Divorce Should Always Be A Last Resort, Even For “Gray” Divorces, Part II
In The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Monday, February 7, 2022, Amy Dickinson’s column concerned a thirty seven year marriage and a wife in...
Jun 30, 20247 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
Divorce Should Always Be A Last Resort, Even For “Gray” Divorces, Part II
In The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Monday, February 7, 2022, Amy Dickinson’s column concerned a thirty seven year marriage and a wife in...
Apr 9, 20227 min read
Divorce Should Always Be A Last Resort, Even For “Gray” Divorces, Part I
In The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Monday, February 7, 2022, Amy Dickinson’s column concerned a thirty seven year marriage, and a wife...
Apr 1, 20224 min read
Gray Divorce is not About What You Are Reading In the Media: Hear It From A Retired Family Court Judge
The media hoopla around the divorce of Bill and Melinda Gates is the impetus for this blog post and my sharing of my thoughts on “gray”...
May 30, 20219 min read
This Grandma Has Just Upped the Acceptable Marriage Age For Her Grandchildren
“Life is making choices and living with the consequences of the choices we make.” In Boomers’ parents’ age, that saying meant once you...
Aug 29, 20184 min read
Why We Boomers Should Respect and Acknowledge the Long Term Marriages Among Us
Being fortunate to be able to celebrate the anniversary of long years of our marriage, this Grandma appreciates what it took Grandpa and...
Sep 26, 20176 min read
Sometimes Double Proof is Better to Show Grandpa that “Happy Wife, Happy Life” Is Always the Way to
Sometimes this Grandma holds on to a post idea about a study for years. Sometimes, the post idea about a study eventually seems...
Nov 4, 20164 min read
How Boomer Grandmas Can Get Out the Message That Modern Marriage Has Changed And Can Be Wonderful If
We Boomer Grandmas have a vested interest in promoting marriage in this decade. After all, we know that a committed healthy relationship...
Jun 14, 20166 min read
Eight Tips of What to Do or Not Do When You Want to be a Grandma but the Future Parents to be Are Not Cooperating
This Grandma writes often about our generation not being our parents’ generation. I speak of it about the way we think, the way we act,...
Sep 14, 20156 min read
Grandma’s Top three Tips to Help the Marriage of the Parents of the Grandchildren Avoid the Doldrums
In this Grandma’s era of a mid term marriage in the doldrums, it was called the “seven year itch.” Now, it seems it is called the “ten...
Sep 6, 20155 min read
The Art of Marriage
This Grandma loved the editorial by Phil Latzman, “A Genuine Work of Art? Try 60 Years of Marriage,” in the Sun Sentinel, July 17, 2014. ...
Jul 26, 20142 min read
Grandmas Come in All Different Varieties: Stop Judging
2014 seems to be the year of bashing in-law grandparents, and the year has just started. In the Miami Herald, January 11, 2014, Carolyn...
Feb 7, 20143 min read
Most Fascinating and Intriguing People of 2013
Barbara Walter’s television special was about the ten most fascinating people of 2013. People magazine had a special edition of the25...
Dec 29, 201315 min read
Grandma’s View on Staying Together for the Children
Carolyn Hax, in “Feeling Distance in the Marriage but Sticking it out for the Kids,” October 18, 2013, in the Miami Herald, gave one of...
Nov 10, 20135 min read
“Gray” Divorcees and Boomer Grandparents
In the New York Times, September 22, 2013, author Sam Roberts writes an article entitled, Divorce After 50 Grows More Common. He says:...
Nov 4, 20137 min read
Choosing to Remain Single v. Grandma Waiting for an Adult Child to Marry to Reap the Reward of Grandchildren
I recently read a Dear Abby column in The Miami Herald which has a common theme among those of us waiting for a child to marry to reap...
Apr 9, 20134 min read
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