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...

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...

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...

Life and Death And Survival Among Jews these words resonate, as through history Jews and Jewish families have had to face the threat of...

This Boomer Grandma has been hearing this for what seems like eons: Americans do not appreciate and sufficiently respect its elders....

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”...

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...

So many jokes and cartoons and videos come to me during this coronavirus period.  They bring comic relief to this time of the coronavirus...

I nearly drowned the last visit with our youngest grandchild, nearly overwhelmed as our precious youngest grandson, 21 months old, began...

The Harris Poll recently did a survey for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants about parents’ allowances for children,...

The 50th Anniversary of “The Game Of Life” is considered the classic edition. The original game came out in 1960, when this Grandma was...

It is the tradition of our Jewish faith to remember the anniversary of the death of our loved ones by lighting a Yahrzeit memorial...

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...

Great Grandmother (GG) Frieda, My Mother, a Holocaust survivor, who was taught Kabbalah by her Father, a Rabbi in the small shtetl (town)...

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...

Grandparenting preteens and teenagers is different than any other grandparenting stage. Grandparenting babies, whether a long distance or...

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...

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...

The last two years, this Grandma’s New Year’s posts have been heavy and emotionally taxing.  See post, 2018 New Year’s Resolutions...

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...