My granddaughter who was eight kept my book by her bedside and was fascinated with everything concerning it. One day she told her mother she wanted to do a book report on "I Can Do This."
Excited to abduct my grandmother this morning, in hopes of whisking her off to the National Cemetery in Riverside where my grandfather and aunt lay, I...
This Huffington Post article by Barbara Graham strikes upon a similar theme as I recently wrote about in my blog . Graham argued for letting grandpare...
Something is afoul in this system of propaganda and quick beauty fixes, that cost us more than we make in hopes that we'll make more once we look the part.
Some things are worth keeping, no matter the cost or the time and effort involved. Whose voice would you give anything to hear again?
There are more grandparents than ever, and more of them are directly caring for their grandchildren than at any time in our recent history. And yet -- no parades, no telethons, not even a zero-down, interest-free auto sale.
I've dealt with hundreds of parents of special needs children. They take the hand that is dealt to them. And usually turn that hand into aces.
I'm sitting downstairs feeling useless while my daughter-in-law and her mother scurry about, attending to the new baby girl. I have been a grandmother for five days, and this is my first taste of Mother of the Father Syndrome.
For the new First Family, having Grandma in the house will be a comfort and source of both strength, and calm -- not only for the children, but for the President and First Lady as well.
Pull up a chair and settle in while I spin a yarn about 2008. The story actually begins 20 years into the future (visualize a clock advancing rapidly...
I got an email today from a friend seeking advice for a fellow church-member who has grandchildren literally all over the globe, including in Europe a...
The strange timing of Obama's grandmother's death underlines what a grandmother's love is really meant to do; which is to prepare a child for a world that she may never lay eyes on.
Five months ago, I left my home in New York and made a pilgrimage to a nursing home on top of a remote hill in West Virginia to visit an extraordinary yet frail and ailing woman.
With new targeting data available, especially on the Internet, advertisers should consider targeting people of a certain life-stage, rather than a particular age or gender.
On May 7, more than 1,000 grandparents and other relatives will gather at the U.S. Capitol to expand public awareness of the important role they are playing for parentless children.
There is a new post-partisan majority in America and issues such as climate change are drivers of this political phenomenon that has defined public opinion.
Sarah Palin took her book tour to the Rush Limbaugh Show...
