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Zoom Face is A Real Thing And Affects More Than We Realize, Which May Include When To Have the COVID
Going on our third year into pandemic life, we’re all still adjusting mentally and physically to this abnormal state. Many of us feel the...
Jun 30, 20243 min read
In the Midst of Worldwide Jewish Tsuris (Troubles), This Jewish Grandmother Adheres to Extinguishing the Darkness By Focusing on Light and Moral Clarity
It is not without irony that 2024 has brought us Jews worldwide tsuris (the Yiddish word for troubles), and also upheaval for the rest of...
Feb 11, 20244 min read
Truth, Like Beauty, Is In The Eye Of the Beholder And The Best Advice I Ever Received On How To Keep Your Truth To Yourself
I first started writing this blog because my Judicial Assistant, who became and is a dear long (we never say old) friend, was going to...
Jan 27, 20236 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
Fast and Easy Halloween Cookies and Special Treats for 2022, Halloween Treats for Babies, Healthy,
After looking at literally dozens of articles on Halloween cookies and treats of all kinds, this Grandma has curated those fast and easy...
Oct 16, 20223 min read
Take the Spookiness Out of Halloween 2021 with A Celebration of National Cookie Month
Halloween was and is always special to this Grandma. It enabled me, as a long distance grandma, to help select and buy Halloween costumes...
Oct 24, 20214 min read
Resilience in Ourselves and Our Grandchildren has Taken On Greater Meaning During the Pandemic
In 2014. I first wrote about building resilience in children and how we grandparents could be of assistance. Pandemics were not on my...
Feb 14, 20215 min read
Blue Colors Are So Different To Learn and Paint with Grandchildren and A Special Blue is Pantone’s C
Every year this Grandma loves learning about the Pantone choice of “Color of the Year.” This year, Pantone’s newly created blue, called...
Feb 19, 20204 min read
Becoming the Matriarch of a Holocaust Survivor Family in 2020, Seventy Five Years after the Holocaust
It is not without irony that 2020 is ushered in with the death of the last living Holocaust survivor from our family. My Mother, GG...
Jan 8, 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
What this Grandma, Meghan Markle and Peppa Pig Have In Common Seems to Be the Big News Currently and
When I immigrated to the United States with my parents, I was six months old. Although my mother (GG Frieda) insisted that I was toilet...
May 29, 20195 min read
Best Four Tips We Boomer Women Should Share About Menopause and Beyond
This Grandma has written about how we should have friends that are at least ten years older than us so we can learn what faces us in life...
Mar 7, 20196 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
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
We Grandparents Should Be Thankful for the Grandchildren We Have Looking at Three Important Articles and A New Book as to Why Everyone Is Having Less Children And How We Can Grandparents Can Change Th
The recent news has bombarded this Grandma about how everyone in America is having less children. I must be thankful and grateful that I...
Aug 21, 20185 min read
Fourth of July is Over, So Why Should We Care For July 4th 2019 What Was Wrought in 2018?
This Grandma, a naturalized citizen, is very patriotic. Yes, the red, white and blue of July 4th are very important. Only PopPop and I...
Jul 10, 20183 min read
Preserving Family History Leads To Much Less than Six Degrees of Separation with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Future Connecting With the Significant Past
“Six Degrees of Separation” a play and movie of our Boomer generation, written by American playwright John Guare, opened on Broadway in...
Apr 8, 20189 min read
Our Choice of Bread Defines Where We have Come From, Who We Are, and Sometimes Who We Aspire To Be
Our eleven year old granddaughter, visiting for spring break, asked for a sandwich. Ever the doting grandmother, I had purchased three...
Mar 27, 20184 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
What Should Be In Our Grandchildren’s Future After the Sexual Harassment “Empowerment Revolution” and What Can We Grandparents Do To Help
As Megyn Kelly stated November 29, 2017 on her NBC morning show immediately after Matt Lauer was fired without notice due to charges of...
Dec 6, 201711 min read
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