Grandmother

Signing with Your Baby

Ruth Neubauer | Posted 05.21.2012

Ruth Neubauer

Sign language is a natural way to help communication in the first year or so of life.

The Secret Reading Habits of Women

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 05.14.2012

Jessica Pearce Rotondi

I'll never forget my first brush with "Romantica," that subgenre of romance novels with just enough sex content that you wouldn't want to be caught reading it in the DMV.

Astoria Characters: The Banker Everybody Loves

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 04.22.2012

Nancy Ruhling

For Michael Serao, banking isn't all about money. It's about helping people enrich their lives.

Children of Divorce and Their Friendships

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 04.10.2012

Dr. Irene S. Levine

When parents go through a divorce, there can be friendship fallout for kids QUESTION Dear Irene, My formerly popular 11-year old granddaughter is b...

Sahara's Huge Surprise For Her Mother On 'Mobbed'

Posted 03.12.2012

Sahara had quite a shock in store for her mother, but after six years she'd decided it was past time to lay it on her. So she called in the "Mobbed" (...

And the Best Holiday Gift Was...

Karin Kasdin | Posted 03.04.2012

Karin Kasdin

Fortunately, we experience the same feelings of usefulness and caring when we give to strangers or the less fortunate as we do when we gift those closest to our hearts. Giving material gifts as well as gifts of time and service should be a critical component of family life.

PHOTOS: Grandma Gets Saucy In The Kitchen

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 02.15.2012

Jessica Pearce Rotondi

What I can't decide is whether these ads are mocking older women's sexuality or celebrating it.

Astoria Characters: The Kindred Spirit

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 01.23.2012

Nancy Ruhling

It's Thanksgiving time, and Kim Parshley is getting ready to make her famous pumpkin pie. She wishes the recipe had been handed down from her grandmother. It wasn't; she was left to concoct it all by herself.

Teen Makes Occupy Wall Street Trip With Grandmother

Turnstyle | Posted 12.05.2011

Turnstyle

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powere...

70-Year-Old Grandmother Sued For Downloading Porn

Robin Wilkey | Posted 09.14.2011

There's something fishy about the lawsuit against tens of thousands of Internet users who allegedly downloaded copyrighted files. As the 70-year-old g...

Argentine President Tweets: A Grandmother-To-Be

AP | Posted 09.12.2011

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is tweeting that she will soon be a grandmother. "I'm going to have a grandchild! C...

Mimi

Emmie Twombly | Posted 09.01.2011

Emmie Twombly

As the youngest in my family, who grew up surrounded by strong independent women, I was able to build my future with insight and perseverance. My first role model was my grandmother, who my older sister and I called "Mimi."

'STEALING' My Stuff Back Post-Split

Joan Weis | Posted 05.25.2011

Joan Weis

Many years ago, I decided I could no longer be married to my husband. Unbeknownst to me, my leaving meant that my things in the house suddenly became his.

Old women: the wisest people on Earth

Rory Fitzgerald | Posted 05.25.2011

Rory Fitzgerald

They cannot operate a mobile phone, or use a clutch, but elderly ladies are the wisest people on Earth. You see, they will have led lives for others,...

Matchmaker in the Know: Dating and Good New Year's Resolutions

Samantha Daniels | Posted 05.25.2011

Samantha Daniels

Have you ever wondered what other single people are resolving to do or not do in the world of dating as they go into a new year? Here's what I know.

Marianne Bordt Charged: Police Say Grandmother Drowned Child Over Divorce

AP | By BILL KACZOR | Posted 05.25.2011

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A 71-year-old German woman drowned her 5-year-old grandson in a bathtub while they were vacationing in the Florida Panhandle beca...

Girl Tries To Sell Her "Moaning" Grandma On eBay

Posted 05.25.2011

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 11.17.2011

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 11.17.2011

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 11.17.2011

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 11.17.2011

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 05.25.2011

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...