by Marlene Bumgarner | Aug 31, 2015 | Community, Family, Grandparenting, Technology
Hearing Loss in the Silent Generation: Even without Ear Buds Hearing loss was part of my childhood. Both my parents lost their hearing in their 40s. My mother’s early dependence on hearing aids was attributed to working in a laundry for twelve hours a day at...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Aug 17, 2015 | Aging, Family, Grandparenting, Technology
Technology Can Enhance Communication with Grandchildren I’m not sure when it happened, but sometime in the last decade Seniors became more comfortable with communication technology. When my dad retired in 1982 and moved to Canada, our only means of...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Aug 11, 2015 | Aging, Community, Family, Grandparenting
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.”...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Aug 4, 2015 | Cooking and Eating, Family, Grandparenting, Health
Not long ago I received a letter from someone who owns a copy of my book, The New Book of Whole Grains. She wanted to know if I could tell her whether she should give up whole grains and switch to what she called “the caveman diet.” She was referring to...