Grandma Camp Day One: The San Jose Children’s Discovery Museum
Keeping Life Fun Life can be dreary for children when one of their parents is ill. My daughter was scheduled for her third chemotherapy infusion today. Based on the way the last two treatments went, she expects to be seriously under the weather the rest of this week...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...A Little Empathy Goes a Long Way
I awoke today to an Instagram post from my daughter. A closeup photo of Bean’s face, looking very earnest (and as cute as a bug), along with this comment from her mother: “She appears by my bed when I’ve been sleeping, ‘Mama, do you need...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...
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