Author: Miriam Weinstein

  • March 13, 2015
    Take a bunch of teenagers with no families, and a bunch of grandparent-age people with extra energy and love. Add…
  • February 10, 2015
    This just in from an Australian study reported in the journal Menopause: Since everyone knows that keeping mentally alert and…
  • January 12, 2015
    You have probably heard about the threat to African elephants: 17,000 slaughtered in 2011. And grandmothers are at the center…
  • December 15, 2014
    One thing I hadn’t anticipated about grandmotherhood was the continuation of the girl buddy system. We lend and borrow porta…
  • November 17, 2014
    Bunker Roy, the Indian social activist, has a well-deserved reputation for turning assumptions on their heads. One of his goals…
  • October 20, 2014
    In 2004, 13 indigenous grandmothers heard the cry of Mother Earth. She was in agony, they said. She needed them…
  • October 6, 2014
    I would not be so naïve as to say that grandmothers are the only subjects of bad poetry. I would…
  • September 22, 2014
    Don’t you just hate that phrase: it’s so simple, even my grandmother can understand it? Rachel Levy hated it too;…
  • September 8, 2014
    A 20-something Australian journalist decided to spend a week eating the way her grandmother did in 1964: eggs and bacon…
  • August 26, 2014
    In case you were worrying that this most popular of apple varieties was named as a marketing stunt, you can…