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If A Boomer Cannot Immediately Bring to Mind A Date, Name, or Word Does Not Mean He or She Is Impaired, Challenged, Or Lacks Wisdom, Intelligence, Or Competence
This Grandma is getting angrier and angrier about ageism. According to the World Health Organization, “ageism refers to the stereotypes...
Feb 17, 20244 min read
Invaluable Advice From Two Masters on Traveling Throughout Your Life
This Grandma is a child of Holocaust survivors. My mother was the only survivor of her village in Poland.* My father, a survivor of the...
Oct 21, 20234 min read
To Text, Message, Contact, “Like,” Just Because You Are Thinking of Someone Improves the Quality of Your Life, Especially for Boomers
COVID has necessarily caused us to be distant. Even now when I bump into someone in public who I have not seen in a while who I normally...
Aug 20, 20224 min read
To Text, Message, Contact, “Like,” Just Because You Are Thinking of Someone Improves the Quality of Your Life, Especially for Boomers
COVID has necessarily caused us to be distant. Even now when I bump into someone in public who I have not seen in a while who I normally...
Jul 29, 20224 min read
We Boomers Have Been Waiting For the Exciting New Global News Organization Going to Be Started By Ben Smith, Media Columnist for the New York Times, and Justin Smith, Bloomberg Media Chief Executive
This Grandma, now retired, has the time daily and I read the local newspaper, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the New York Times, the...
Jan 15, 20223 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
From Facebook About How Living Longer Brings Learning and Wisdom To Share to Improve Quality of Life
This Grandma is new to social media. When I was a sitting judge in Florida, I was constrained from participating in social media. I...
Oct 30, 20213 min read
Good News For Us Postmenopausal Chocoholics: An Extra Large Milk Chocolate Bar Twice A Day Is Found
This Grandma is an unapologetic chocoholic. As I previously shared, I fed my first baby warmed chocolate fudge at three months old, one...
Aug 21, 20216 min read
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and This Florida Judge’s Immigrant Life Following Her A Decade Later. Para
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a giant among us and her loss has been felt nationwide. The following two quotes I...
Oct 21, 20207 min read
Now That I Am in My Seventies I Understand Why No One Tells You the Truth About How To Optimize Life in Your Seventies
When I was about to hit seventy, GG Lee’s (Great Grandmother age 95) mantra was hitting home. She said live your life to its fullest...
Jun 19, 20196 min read
One Day University is Just Enough Of Lifelong Learning To Keep Our Boomer Brains Blossoming
Once Grandpa and I finally settled into semi-retirement mode, we started paying attention to our friends who had preceded us into leisure...
Apr 26, 20193 min read
Enhance Your New York City Vacation As A Tourist With The Four Best Secrets of the New York Lifestyle of Our Boomer Friends
This is what my dearest longest (we never say oldest) friend, a lifetime resident of New York City, taught me of secrets of the New York...
Dec 26, 20186 min read
Before You or Your Loved Ones Travel Outside the United States this Summer Or Anytime Take These Four STEPs First
Grandpa, our oldest grandson, and I were walking with our guide, Bertrand, down a main Paris thoroughfare toward the Rodin Museum when...
Jul 26, 20187 min read
Senior Discounts Are No Joke and For the Best Senior Discounts You May Be “Carded” As You Were At Ag
When all of our friends were turning 50, Grandpa and I gave two gifts. The first was a three year membership to AARP (now $43) because...
May 8, 20187 min read
Inter-generational Friendships and Paying It Forward In the Decades of Life
Hearing my oldest daughter appreciate advice she received from someone who is a decade older who has already been through what my...
Feb 23, 20184 min read
Best Five Tips for Experiencing Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland
In this past first year of retirement, Grandpa and I traveled several continents and finished those Wonders of the World Lists that are...
Jan 18, 20189 min read
If I Knew I Were Dying, What Would I Want To Talk About Now
Last year, I wrote a blog post titled, “If I Knew I Were Dying, What Would I Want To Talk About Now.” I had then recently watched, The...
Jan 12, 20184 min read
Top Five Tips for Planning The Perfect Travel Experiences for the First Three Years Of Retirement
This Grandma and Grandpa have a bucket list of seeing all of the wonders of the world. Just when we thought we had completed seeing all...
Oct 13, 20175 min read
An “Out of This World” Must Do Experience is The &Beyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge in
This Grandma read that within the first three years of retirement, Boomers travel all the time. We all think we are unique, but we...
Sep 15, 20177 min read
Why This Grandma Thinks Procrastination is A Disease of Retirement And The Cure
This Grandma prides herself on a lifetime of organization and the ability to multi task and get things done. I hate “To Do” lists and...
Jun 1, 20175 min read
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