by Marlene Bumgarner | Apr 26, 2018 | Cooking and Eating, Family, Health, Nature
Spring Planting Last year I missed planting season in Santa Cruz. I was in San Diego taking care of my new granddaughter. This year I started thinking about my spring garden before Christmas and purchased two metal horse watering troughs from a feed store. ...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Apr 10, 2018 | Aging, Child development, Family, Health
Sleeping While Aging So after reading my last post you probably assumed that I returned to my home, 400 miles away from my granddaughter’s nursery, and immediately began getting a good night’s sleep. Wrong. Like more than a third of American adults, I...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Jan 22, 2018 | Cooking and Eating, Family, Health, Nature, Travel
Adelaide on Foot I was a bit confused when my driver dropped me in front of the Traveller’s Inn on Hutt Street. I knew the address of my hostel, but I was in a business district, and the storefronts didn’t have numbers on them. After waffling for a...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Oct 3, 2016 | Aging, Community, Family, Grandparenting, Health
A week in the life of this Grandmother . . . Last week was very busy. Two weeks earlier I had embarked on the creation of a support group for grandparents, some of whom had relocated as I did, to help take care of their grandchildren. Monday night, as I worked on the...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Sep 5, 2016 | Aging, Community, Family, Grandparenting, Health, Nature, Travel
Two Grandmothers Went for a Hike Sounds like the beginning of a joke, doesn’t it? But it isn’t — it’s what my friend Ginny and I did last Friday. Ginny and I are usually in a seniors circuit class on Friday mornings (also on Mondays and...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Aug 22, 2016 | Aging, Cooking and Eating, Family, Grandparenting, Health, Technology
A New Way to Plan and Prepare Meals “I am so sick of cooking for myself” my friend Martha announced as we walked to our cars after exercise class. The sun had finally broken through the coastal overcast and the late afternoon warmth felt good on my neck. ...