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Non-Traditional Grandparenting

Although I was also a single mom, and then became a single grandmother, I embraced the experience. Advising my parents about the new challenge my daughter and I would be encountering was probably the most difficult task.  Why?  Because my grand child would be bi-racial, African American and Caucasian. Although I had a multi-cultural mind set, that was not the cultural norm I came from. I had to fight my way through the limitations and barriers of my family of origin. That's another topic, for a later article. Read more

Silver Lining at the Golden Globes!

Silver Lining at the Golden Globes  It was quite a night at the Golden Globes this year for Silver Sagers! The first Golden Globe Awards were held in 1944. That year, Jennifer Jones was awarded Best Actress for her role in The Song of Bernadette, (which received the Best Film award) and Paul Lukas won Read more

Majestic

Majestic By Stu O’Connor At a time when it seems one must search with some effort for poetry that rings with original, deeply considered imagistic perspectives, the hubble cantos, by Tree Riesener, is brimming with astonishing imagery and thoughtful verse. If, as Joseph Campbell stated in his book Creative Mythology (and I paraphrase here), the Read more

The Caretaker

The Caretaker  by Donna Scrafano The word “caretaker,” as defined in the Webster II New Riverside University Dictionary, reads: “One employed to look after goods, property or another person: Custodian.” Oh, if only the tasks of caretaking were as clear-cut as this definition. In mid autumn, there was a family decision—and, as I see it, Read more

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