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Three Fresh Ideas to Revamp Your New Year’s Resolutions for 2025
Every year, I challenge myself to bring something fresh to my New Year’s resolutions. Normally, I pass down a life lesson to my...
Jan 23 min read


Entering the New Year 2024 with Great Trepidation, and Wishing It Was Not So
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Upon the coming of the new year, for several years, I felt the need to write about my mother’s mantra that was...
Jan 13, 20249 min read


For the New Year 2023, How Do Grandparents Measure the Year
“Seasons of Love,” the song from the award winning Broadway play, “Rent,” starts out: “five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred...
Dec 25, 20225 min read


Gratitude in the New Year 2022 For the Lifetime Benefit to Us Boomers of a Combination of Active, Daily Activities
This Grandma recently ran into a professional colleague I had not seen in nearly five years. It is hard to believe I am retired from the...
Jan 1, 20225 min read


Memorializing Family Rituals and Traditions in the New Year 2021
When I wrote previous New Year’s blog posts I thought those transitions were difficult. See blog post, Memorializing Family Rituals and...
Jan 1, 20211 min read


How the 2019 Color of the Year and A Daily Dose of Dark Chocolate Are Connected
Each year, this Grandma looks forward to some annually repeated news releases that some might think are trivial. I love the information...
Feb 27, 20193 min read


Goal Setting & Pursuing Your Passionate Purpose In The New Year! From An Expert Health & Wellness Coach
Just too few years ago, our younger daughter re-introduced us to a high school friend with whom she reconnected. As we of long years...
Jan 9, 20194 min read


Memorializing Family Rituals and Traditions in the New Year 2019
The last two years, this Grandma’s New Year’s posts have been heavy and emotionally taxing. See post, 2018 New Year’s Resolutions...
Dec 31, 20185 min read


What Purple, The 2018 Color of the Year, Has To Do With The Washington Post and The New York Times Rivalry And A Subliminal Political Message for The Coming Year
The Color Purple has a history in our family before the 1985 outstanding movie with Whoopi Goldberg. In 1982, our youngest daughter was...
Jan 26, 20187 min read


2018 New Year’s Resolutions Focusing on Feelings That Span A Lifetime Will Bring Us Joy
For New Years 2017, this Grandma wrote “2017 New Year’s Resolutions Focusing on Feelings That Span A Lifetime Will Bring Us Joy.” When I...
Jan 5, 20189 min read


2017 New Year’s Resolutions Focusing on Feelings That Span A Lifetime Will Bring Us Joy
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017! In this new era of seeking and collecting experiences instead of things, the articles about proposed 2017 New Year’s...
Jan 2, 20178 min read


Creating Wonderful Lasting Memories for Grandchildren in the New Year 2016 With the Five Things Children Remember of Their Childhood
One of this Grandma’s mantras is that children remember most the traditions and rituals from their childhood. That is why getting...
Dec 29, 20154 min read


Begin the New Year Without Guilt for the Working Parents of Our Grandchildren
I saw a young professional mother at work. She just came back to work after maternity leave and professed an additional stress—maternal...
Jan 17, 20143 min read
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