Becoming Jew-ish Grandparents
My wife, Jacquie, and I are not Jewish. We are Christians. In fact, I was a Christian pastor for forty-five years and Jacquie...
02 February, 2020
New Jewish Grandparents Network Findings: Grandparenting during COVID
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the crucial role grandparents play. In many families, grandparents have stepped up and stepped in to help exhausted...
24 January, 2020
Blessings of Grandparenting
When I was ten years old, our family saw Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway. This was a big deal. My grandparents, who...
19 December, 2019
Grandparenting Today: Talkin’ About Our Generation
As a bonafide Baby Boomer, I like to think of myself as someone who, along with my contemporaries, is reinventing the art of...
19 December, 2019
A Hike Between the Seams
In the seam of time at the end of the summer, I set off on a hike with my grandson Simon. At nine...
25 October, 2019
Won Ton Soup, Egg Rolls, Spare Ribs…..Wait!!!
Sunday night dinner at a Chinese restaurant; spare-ribs, wonton soup, chicken chow mein, fortune cookies, and orange slices. In the 1950s and 60s,...
25 October, 2019
Illustrating the National Study
When the Jewish Grandparents Network was looking for an artist to provide illustrations for the report of the national study of Jewish Grandparents,...
26 June, 2019