by Marlene Bumgarner | Sep 20, 2016 | Aging, Child development, Family, Grandparenting, Travel
Do you remember what it was like the first time you watched a city recede beneath you, the houses and cars and people becoming smaller and smaller? I had forgotten, but I remembered last weekend as my granddaughter pressed her nose to the cold glass trying to get as...
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 | Jul 25, 2016 | Aging, Family, Grandparenting, Travel
Musings I’m in the Seattle-Tacoma Airport waiting for a plane that has been delayed six hours out of Houston, and I’m thinking about grandparenting. Or more accurately, I am thinking about the ways that one generation overlaps into the next and how...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Jun 27, 2016 | Aging, Family, Grandparenting, Travel, Writing
Jet Lag When I first returned from Greece, I fell into the abyss that is jet lag. It lasted for nearly a week. Then it morphed into an extended period of lethargy that I couldn’t explain or shake. While we were in Greece, writer Laura Davis led three-hour...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Jun 6, 2016 | Travel, Writing
Graffiti on the Metro The endless flight was finally over, the Metro ride coming to an end, but my education about graffiti just beginning. As we came into the Monasteraki Square Station I saw colorful artwork on the side of another train. As it passed, I noticed more...
by Marlene Bumgarner | May 30, 2016 | Family, Grandparenting, Travel
Traveling in Greece as a Grandma There are lots of articles on the internet about grandparents traveling with their grandchildren. Also grandchildren traveling with their grandparents. But none that I have found that explore what it is like to travel as a...