One has to take great care not to offend the new mothers, by advising or using old-fashioned methods. To a sensitive daughter/daughter-in-law, help an...
Elizabeth Lesser | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living
A friend asked me if becoming a grandmother made me feel old. I didn't know what to say. It's not that it makes me feel young. Rather, it makes me know what matters; it wakes me up.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
My mom speaks out about turning 60.
Chris Kyle | Posted 06.10.2009 | Entertainment
My mom is an unusual sports fan. She doesn't use the word hate and she's never booed a single team or person in her life.
One For The Table | Posted 06.08.2009 | Style
Unlike my grandmother, my mother would sooner poke out her own eyes with a meat thermometer than toss a handful of frozen pecans into a pre-mixed pancake batter.
Doree Shafrir | Posted 06.08.2009 | Living
My grandmother is 85 years old and, to my knowledge, has never gone online. But I think it's safe to say that she's in the minority among the senior set.
Jane Ganahl | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living
I'm 56 and starting to look seriously at AARP literature when it arrives in the mail. But I want a child - a grandchild - and I want my daughter to have it for me.
Johann Hari | Posted 01.26.2009 | Living
All year I write columns exposing people who threaten ordinary life, but I want now to describe the people who make that ordinary life worth living. For me, near the top slot would be one word: Gran.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.26.2008 | Home
What you hear again and again here in South Louisiana is that no one has the TIME to work on campaigning. Most families are still recovering from thre...
The Guardian | Joanna Moorhead | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
No previous generation of grandmothers has contained such a high percentage of women who either worked while raising their kids or returned to work wh...
guardian.co.uk | Michele Hanson | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living