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Oct 27, 20234 min read
The Five Best Rules and Regulations For In-Law Parents and All Grandparents That Make Them The Indispensable Go-To Grandparents
Why does this Grandma use the terms “rules and Regulations” and for “in-law parents”? If you, the reader, are asking, then you are new to...

Mar 26, 20231 min read
Archives Must Reads For New Grandparents. Part II What To Buy, From Equipment to Toys and Gifts
As this Grandma said in Part I, a dear long friend, who is becoming a grandma for the first time, asked me to give her my must reads for...

Jan 1, 20234 min read
Please Do Not Wait To Tell Your Loved Ones What They Mean to You
We grandparents are at the age when it is getting harder to say we are young. When age 80 is closer than I want to admit, although I work...


Mar 18, 20227 min read
What Message Are You Giving Your Children and Grandchildren About Living Life
Life and Death And Survival Among Jews these words resonate, as through history Jews and Jewish families have had to face the threat of...


Jun 13, 20214 min read
The Boomer’s Best Secret Weapon in America is Finally Being Appreciated and Respected
This Boomer Grandma has been hearing this for what seems like eons: Americans do not appreciate and sufficiently respect its elders....


May 30, 20219 min read
Gray Divorce is not About What You Are Reading In the Media: Hear It From A Retired Family Court Judge
The media hoopla around the divorce of Bill and Melinda Gates is the impetus for this blog post and my sharing of my thoughts on “gray”...


Jan 31, 20212 min read
When Grandma Able To Hug Grandchildren Becomes Miraculous
COVID-19. This grandma is so over it. A year out of our ives now is life changing. For we know enough to know how much of living life we...


Apr 29, 20204 min read
Passing Along Something Beautiful and Thought Provoking During the Coronavirus Pandemic
So many jokes and cartoons and videos come to me during this coronavirus period. They bring comic relief to this time of the coronavirus...


Jan 22, 20206 min read
The Terrible Twos From This The Terrible Twos From This Grandma’s perspective and SEVEN TIPS THAT WORK for the Sanity of Grandma and the Safety of Our Precious “TWOISH” Grandchildren
I nearly drowned the last visit with our youngest grandchild, nearly overwhelmed as our precious youngest grandson, 21 months old, began...


Oct 23, 20193 min read
If Allowances Are A Tool To Teach About Money, How Grandparents’ “Bank” Is Perfect
The Harris Poll recently did a survey for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants about parents’ allowances for children,...


Oct 2, 20194 min read
The “Game Of Life” Has Changed Drastically Even For Our Early Elementary Grandchildren With More Choices Than We Boomer Grandparents Ever Imagined
The 50th Anniversary of “The Game Of Life” is considered the classic edition. The original game came out in 1960, when this Grandma was...


Sep 25, 20194 min read
Remembering My Father and the Meaningfulness of How Many Years Ago He Passed
It is the tradition of our Jewish faith to remember the anniversary of the death of our loved ones by lighting a Yahrzeit memorial...


Sep 11, 20192 min read
A Spiritual Leader’s Recollected Life Lesson to Share with Grandchildren
The Catholic Priest gave this homily* at the funeral of a dear friend recently. As he spoke, I recalled that I had heard this life...


Jul 31, 20193 min read
Because Everyone Has Something, There are Life Lessons to Pass on To Our Grandchildren
Great Grandmother (GG) Frieda, My Mother, a Holocaust survivor, who was taught Kabbalah by her Father, a Rabbi in the small shtetl (town)...


Jun 19, 20196 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...


Feb 14, 20194 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 6, 20197 min read
How We Grandparents Can Share What Our Grandchildren Will Never Know Otherwise Part 1: Reading and Writing Cursive Is No Longer Taught to Our Grandchildren
When this Grandma was a child, I remember hearing about how some would mark their signature with an X because they could not read or...


Jan 17, 20194 min read
I am one of the Boomer Women Who Personally Experienced Discrimination “On The Basis of Sex”
I just saw the movie,“On the Basis of Sex,” and cannot share the “wow” moment in the movie for me without spoiling the movie for you. I...


Dec 31, 20185 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...


Nov 2, 20186 min read
We American Jews Must Now Not Only Be Vigilant As We Have Joined the Vulnerable Ranks of Our Worldwide
It has been happening to Jews for many thousands of years. It has touched our family and we Jews, collectively and of my family, can...
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