5 Reasons This Grandmother Loves Santa Cruz
Before I retired from teaching, I thought of Santa Cruz as a place to go for the day, but never as a place to live. Whenever the subject of Santa Cruz came up it seemed that someone would quip “That’s the town that’s still living in the 60s.”...Learning to Sketch: Another Benefit of Lifelong Learning
Learning to Sketch I spent last weekend learning to sketch with a parallel pen. Saturday morning had begun with a phone call and some troublesome news. My first instinct was to stay where I was and worry, something I’m very good at, as I’ve mentioned...The Beginning of a Journey
The Journey In a recent post I wrote about grandparents who are challenged by the many miles between them and their grandchildren. Today I read an article in the New York Times about grandparents who have moved to live closer to their grandchildren. It was very...The Silly Half Hour: A Father’s Day Story
When I was six years old, we lived in a rented Victorian in the Richmond District of San Francisco for several months, and my favorite time was the Silly Half Hour. There was no set time when this event would occur, and it didn’t happen every day. But once in a...Grandparenting at a distance
Technology Can Breach the Miles When my two oldest children were small, my husband’s mother recorded herself reading picture books and mailed periodic packages containing both the books and the cassette tapes. I would sit with the kids while we played...
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