Grandmother

Girl Tries To Sell Her "Moaning" Grandma On eBay

Posted 12.01.2009 | Technology


When ten year-old Zoe Pemberton put her grandmother up for sale on eBay, she described the granny-goods in explicit -- and brutally honest -- details....

The Great Divide: Rosh Hashanah My Way

Tina Traster | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living


Tina Traster

The sweet yeasty aroma rising from the blessed creation stimulated my salivary glands and my memory. As I reached toward the loaf to tear off an end my husband tapped my hand as though I were an impetuous child: "No," he said, "You've got to wait for it to cool." I really was back in the kitchen with grandma, being taught the virtue of patience.

Dear Grandma, A Change Has Come!

Adia Colar | Posted 02.21.2009 | Living


Adia Colar

Grandma, We did it! We elected a black man President of the United States of America! Grandma, it's been a long time comin' but I know a change has come!

Change for the Aged

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living


Arthur Rosenfeld

At a time when our country is in a paroxysm of economic self-doubt and cleansing itself of corruption, it is tempting to equate what has come before with "old" and the incoming, the new, with "young".

Big Momma Is In The (White) House

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living


Yvonne R. Davis

Analyzed as part of the multi-generational black family, grandmothers have often served as both patriarch and matriarch, guiding the black family through the toils and crises of our time.

Sam Stein

Obama On Grandmother And Campaign: "Bittersweet"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics


In what was clearly a very difficult portion of his address Monday night in North Carolina, Barack Obama spoke for several minutes on this grandmother...