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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
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 11, 20207 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
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
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
Who Knew Children Do Vomit More Than Adults and the Top Four Tips To Know About Children and Grandch
When this Grandma was an elementary school teacher, I always made a deal with the teacher next door. I could not stand vomit or blood,...
Oct 13, 20185 min read
The First Pregnancy and Baby Advice and Information Has Changed Beyond Recognition With Our Grandchildren’s Generation
When this Grandma’s children, now in their forties, were babies, cereal was the first food to introduce to the baby, and after a few...
Sep 5, 20185 min read
The Truths and Myths About Flu and Cold Survival You Need To Know When About on Earth and in the Air
Grandpa and I are trying. We are trying to change habits to be safer in this cold and flu season. We are trying NOT to shake hands even...
Apr 13, 20186 min read
What We Should Know About Science Daily, Tell the Parents of Our Grandchildren about It, and What Is Reported About when To Introduce Foods to Babies
My brother forwarded me an article about a report on when to introduce foods to babies in an online publication called “Science Daily.” ...
Feb 10, 20183 min read
How to Make Shopping in the Mall with Grandchildren of All Ages and Sexes a Pleasurable Experience
When our daughters were small, they hated going shopping with me. It was a chore for them to accompany me, even if it was for clothing...
Nov 29, 20173 min read
Why Life Happens With Tears and Life Happens With Laughter and With Knowledge Comes Power to Understand and Cope With Life’s Challenges
When I was growing up, if something good happened and I told my Holocaust survivor mother, GG (great-grandmother), she said “pooh, pooh”...
Jun 27, 20175 min read
Adults of Every Age Should Know Why Cataracts Probably Will Be In Our Future Not Only Because We Are
This Grandma recently watched Grandpa go through cataract surgery and saw how truly effortless it was, other than having to do one eye at...
May 19, 20174 min read
Five Examples of Teaching Grandchildren About Shopping and Returning What We Purchase in This New World of the American Shopping Experience
Our grandchildren learn about shopping as early as toddlers. No, it is not the comparison shopping of getting good quality at a good...
Jan 18, 20177 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 Long Can We Go: The Definition of Aging Other Than the Passage of Years And Our “Health Span
This Grandma is compulsive about much, and reading as many articles about studies on aging is one of those compulsions that seems to grow...
Oct 20, 20165 min read
Our Grandchildren Will Grow Up Just Fine Even Though We Are Not Raising Them, Even In Today’s Society When the Parents May Or May Not Be Married
A brand-new grandpa came up to me to show me the pictures of his new granddaughter. He was beaming just like all new grandparents. He...
Feb 23, 20165 min read
Appendicitis, the Leading Reason For Emergency Surgeries in Children, Does Not Necessarily Mean Anes
Modern medicine is amazing. Our oldest grandson had surgery to remove his appendix just a year ago, and now there is a new study that...
Jan 2, 20164 min read
And So We Boomers Disappear at the End of This Century…
The article in the Washington Post June 26, 2015 caught my eye, “Social Issues: Census update shows more diverse society as baby-boom...
Aug 7, 20152 min read
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