December 14, 2016

More than 60 years ago, in 1954, Emma Gatewood, a 66-year-old grandmother, equipped with sneakers, a blanket, and a plastic…

October 31, 2016

When I visited my grandchildren's school recently for a fundraising fair,  members of the poetry club had set up a…

September 29, 2016

If the President is POTUS (president of the United States) and the First Lady is FLOTUS, then the first grandmother…

August 3, 2016

Want to instantly drop five points in the eyes of your children or their spouses/partners/co-parents? Just use this simple phrase…

June 28, 2016

Finding out that your darling baby grandchild is deaf is certainly tough. The parents are most likely in turmoil. You…

May 16, 2016

At least I didn't show you the really awful photos of babies with oxygen masks, or the video entitled "Three…

April 8, 2016

It makes eminent sense: kids in orphanages need hugs, attention, consistency, love. People who have been mothers and grandmothers, and…

March 9, 2016

Wouldn't we all like to be raging grannies, some days? The movement that began in Canada more than 30 years…

February 8, 2016

What if grandmothers were the key to a more humane and effective welfare system? That is the premise of a…

January 11, 2016

Headlines about the AIDS crisis in Africa have diminished, but orphans who have lost their parents to the disease continue to…