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For Mother’s Day 2026 Or to Buy For Yourself: Best Highly Recommended Reasonably Priced Beauty Products From Paris and South Korea That You Can Buy in the U.S.
Paris has always had wonderful beauty products and South Korea beauty products are up and coming and new. What a great unique Mother’s Day gift! I love beauty products from Paris and South Korea that are confirmed to be good from friends. I am so lucky to have a Parisian American friend, Coreen, for almost thirty years who lives part time in Florida with me, and knows all about Parisian beauty products, and a new Asian American friend, Cora, from San Francisco and East Hamp
Apr 274 min read
Experiencing Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, and Joyce Maynard
I have just returned from a memoir writing workshop retreat, called “Write By the Lake,” at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, with Joyce Maynard. A long (we never say old) dear friend, Valerie, went exactly one year ago and told me to immediately sign up. I did. As I learned at the retreat, I am making a list of the words that describe the experiences of spending a week in rural and rugged Guatemala at Lake Atitlan and with Joyce Maynard, surrounded by thirty- four varieties of bird
Mar 44 min read
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Gifts 2025: Several Inexpensive New Travel Gifts and Kitchen Gadgets Those in Your Family Did Not Know Each Generation Wanted or Needed and One Splurge Item
There are so many idea articles for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, so this Grandma tried to think of a few new ideas for 2025. Of...
May 8, 20255 min read
Mother-in-law and Mother Relationship Can be The Same and How to Thrive Being An In-Law Father, In-law Mother, and Importantly, In-law Grandparents
This post is dedicated to a dear friend who just entered into a new phase in her life, that of being a mother-in-law. Yes, there is a...
Jan 24, 20243 min read
Best Mother’s Day 2022 Gifts Are To Create Memories and More
2022 is a year where memories are especially important. Covid has made us realize that time and time together is precious. We want the...
Apr 15, 20223 min read
The 2021 Best Mother’s Day Gift For Grandmas Is Also The Most Important
Mother’s Day 2021 is Sunday, May 9. The 2021 Best Mother’s Day gift is also the most important. If you add up the days, minutes or hours...
Apr 25, 20214 min read
A 2020 Mother’s Day that Means Thinking Differently About A Gift and Five of the Best Gift Options F
Never before have we had to be apart “social distancing” from our loved ones under the circumstances of a world-wide pandemic. Many of...
Apr 22, 20204 min read
Curated List of 309 Best Mother’s Day Gifts To Choose From or Craft For Every Kind of Mother and Grandmother At Every Price Point for Mother’s Day 2019
This Grandma is hooked on the apps that give you options to select a topic and read dozens and dozens of articles from any source, and...
Apr 3, 20195 min read
Best 2018 Mother’s Day Gifts for Grandmothers and Great Grandmothers
Each year this Grandma has tried to think of new and different Mother’s Day gifts that we grandmas might actually want to receive. Then...
May 1, 20182 min read
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