A Great Granddad BY MARTIN GLEESON Limerick, Ireland Mary stopped the car just outside Leonard’s Newsagents. She handed a $20 note to her ten-year-old son David and told him, “There will
Granddad at Play BY CAROLYN RAPHAEL Almost every night, sometime between 8:30 and 11:00 PM, my daughter, Melissa, calls her 82-year-old father to do the NY Times crossword puzzle on
This Granddad Has The Back-To-School Blues BY STEVE WATSON With his granddaughter about to start junior kindergarten, Steve Watson wonders, why it is such a struggle to let go? The first day
BY WILLIAM LEVINE One of my least favorite bumper stickers is ASK ME ABOUT MY GRANDKIDS for a couple of reasons: First, it is a presumptuous request. OK, I suppose if
BY RON WOLF After losing my granddad last year, it was hard for me to face life as it is since he was the person who influenced my life in
BY DEBBY CARROLL Chances are you like Robert Redford. You probably have seen and enjoyed several of his movies. Maybe you respect his decades of advocacy on behalf of the
A Buster Keaton Granddad By Stephen Miller Now that many women are having their first child in their 30s, many men in their 70s are spending time with toddlers or
Granddad reads and leads By Ken Canfield A Massachusetts Colony law enacted in 1644 stated that heads of households should be responsible for teaching their children to read. What if,
From a Granddad’s Halloween Journal – Ping! By Harvey Blumenthal Our daughter-in-law, Hilary, and grandson Noah, then three and one-half, flew into Tulsa from Salt Lake City the day before Halloween,
A Fable To Share With Your Grandchildren Granddad’s Place – Chapter 3 Here is chapter three from Granddad’s Place by David George. You will find chapter one, The Acorn, here and
Chapter Two Frog Song By David George Granddad swung back and forth on the two-seated rocker on his deck, taking in the dusky view. In the distance, the grassy ridges
Welcome to the first in a series of short stories or fables. The Acorn Fable, is provided courtesy of author David George.The first fable is about the natural world. Each story
I just discovered Armin Brott’s advice to this young granddad-to-be, and you need to read it too.Then go buy his books for all the new or soon-to-be dads in your
By: Karla Sullivan My grandfather’s whitewashed farmhouse was located in small town, central Illinois framed by an ever-changing horizon and guarded by cornstalks. Each had grown tall with gangling arms,