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Everything Friends: The Why, The How, How Many or Too Many, Social Media Impact, And, Ultimately, Wisdom As You Age
All of a sudden, or not so sudden with the domination of social media, and everybody in a group sitting on their phones rather than talking to each other, studies about everything about friends and friendships are everywhere. But are they helpful? The Why I was raised by two Holocaust survivors who believed that friends were those who turned you over to the Nazis, and only family members were the people you could depend on and with whom you should surround yourself. Leaving o
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The Frick Collection and The Morgan Library in New York City - Why You Should You Go Yourself and Bring Your Children and Grandchildren to Visit Beauty in Art and Building From The Gilded Age
The photograph is a 1904 depiction of an acquisitive and manipulative Standard Oil (founded by John D. Rockefeller) as an all-powerful...
Sep 285 min read


Multigenerational Perfect Vacation in Crete and Santorini with Teens and Young Adults
This Grandma’s eighteen and nineteen year old grandchildren wanted a vacation in the Greek Islands and had no interest in Athens or the...
Sep 88 min read


What Word Has Been Added to The Cambridge Dictionary in 2025-‘Skibidi’?
Having teenage grandchildren is an education. Not necessarily an education that I expected nor that I desired. I did teach middle school...
Sep 13 min read


Travel Abroad With MEDJET’S Air Medical Transportation, Plus Worldwide Travel Security, Crisis Response and Evacuation Services Available to Travelers Who are Boomers Ages 75-84 and Age 85+
With what is happening in world travel now, it is important for this Grandma to introduce those of you who are unaware to MEDJET. PopPop...
Jul 216 min read


London As The Gateway To Zurich for a Multigenerational Vacation With Abundant Chocolate Experiences and A Surprise of Four Countries in One Day. Part II ZURICH AND SWITZERLAND WITH GRANDCHILDREN
Part II ZURICH AND SWITZERLAND WITH GRANDCHILDREN With Abundant Chocolate Experiences and A Surprise of Four Countries in One Day. Two...
Jul 78 min read


London As The Gateway To Zurich for a Multigenerational Vacation With Abundant Chocolate Experiences and A Surprise of Four Countries in One Day. Part I LONDON WITH GRANDCHILDREN Anew
Part I LONDON WITH GRANDCHILDREN Anew* Two grandchildren, ages fourteen and seventeen, and their seventeen year old family friend joining...
Jun 308 min read


This Grandma’s Favorite New Tip About Hugging Grandchildren, and Additional Five Best Tips on Personal Touch For All Ages and For Health Based On Scientific Research
This Grandma’s favorite tip about hugs is that you should never be the first to let go when you are hugging your grandchild. I learned...
Jun 164 min read


In Our Society, Most Teenagers and Preteens Have Seen Online Pornography, Hear Pornographic Lyrics, A Six Year Old Child Shot His Teacher, and That is Not The Worst of It
When my grandchildren are in the car with me, I always have Pop Hits I on Sirius. I want to relate to them and their music. . . or so I...
Feb 16, 20236 min read


Why and How Instagram Taught Me To Search “Life Hacks” For Simple Solutions to Daily Tasks. Who Knew How Really Helpful Ice Cubes Can Be
Instagram taught me to search “Life Hacks” on Google for simple solutions to daily tasks! Instagram is an application (app) that my...
Jan 7, 20233 min read


Sneakerheads, Hypebeasts, and Other Groups Are New to Boomers But AntiSemitism is the Oldest Prejudice That Has Now Again Infiltrated Our American Culture
You know you are longer (we never say older) when some words your eleven year old grandson introduces you to and tries to explain are the...
Nov 6, 20225 min read


The Best 2021 Holiday Presents for Our Preteen, Teenage, and College Aged Grandchildren and What They Want As Presents for The Holidays 2021
In 2014, I wrote a post, “What Our Grandchildren Want as Presents. Then I did not have college aged grandchildren or teenaged...
Dec 12, 20215 min read


Board Games Are Selling Out in the Pandemic So Buy Early to Get The Best For Everyone in the Family
Now that we all are spending more time at home, the news today included that we may have another run on toilet paper as the coronavirus...
Oct 29, 20204 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


Our Granddaughter’s Twinning at Yad Vashem’s Special Bar and Bat Mitzvah Tour And You Can Do it For Your Teen Too, In Your Home Town, Without Going to Jerusalem, Israel
Holocaust Education is mandated in many states and children all over the United States are taught the horrors of targeting people just...
Sep 4, 20194 min read


Our Second Outstanding Stay with Extraordinary Service at the Iconic and Exceptional King David in Jerusalem and Best Tips for Your Stay With Children and Teens
When you stay at the King David, it is staying at a Jerusalem icon and it is an experience during which you are spoiled. As with the top...
Aug 28, 20193 min read


How Preteen and Teenage Grandchildren Are Like Cats
Grandparenting preteens and teenagers is different than any other grandparenting stage. Grandparenting babies, whether a long distance or...
Feb 14, 20194 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


Giving You Easy Ways to Use Certain Classical Music Which Listened to in the Background For Twenty M
We Grandmas want to make things easy for our families and loved ones. When I read that research suggests that the soundtrack to your...
Jul 13, 20185 min read


Teenagers are Like Two Year Old and We Must Remind the Parents of Our Grandchildren to Treat Them As Such
Oftentimes, in my twenty years as a family court judge, I found divorcing parents fighting over time with their teenagers. I was always...
Mar 25, 20183 min read
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