Thought-provoking news about grandparents around the world.
Collin Fowler of Albuquerque, New Mexico serenaded his quarantined grandparents with bagpipes to mark their 55th wedding anniversary. He stood in the middle of their cul-de-sac, while they listened from the safety of their stoop.
Here’s an excellent article from The Washington Post by a retired professor who typically cares for her grandkids after school. Last week, she was “laid off” from this job for her own protection.
Five of Doug Hayes’s ten grandkids are old enough to ride the school bus he bought them for Christmas, which he’s calling the “Grandfather Express.”
A murderer admits to his crime, but his victim’s mother—who is seeking custody of her grandson—fights on.
Some days, they take care of their grandchildren. Other days, they prowl the bottom of the sea in search of venomous snakes.
Concerned about the impact of climate change on their grandchildren, elders in London have taken to the streets.
Joy Ryan had never seen the ocean or climbed a mountain. Then her grandson took her on the road.
An 88-year-old woman, her daughter, her granddaughter, and her great-granddaughter recently teamed up for a 5K in Albany.
“Anyone who thinks of old age as a time of stagnation just hasn’t been there,” writes Doris Carnevali.
A middle school in Ohio has a novel take on the Senior Prom.
Faced with declining enrollment, an elementary school in rural South Korea is welcoming grandmothers, many of whom were not permitted to attend school when they were girls.
“I don’t think it was anything special, to be honest,” said Faye Morgan, 81, after wresting two pythons from a backyard grill.
Lauren Phillips is the first woman to join the ranks of the city’s firefighters in 30 years.
In 2018, I wrote about a caravan of grandparents who stormed the Texas-Mexico border to protest Trump’s treatment of migrant children, Gabriel García Márquez’s memories of his grandmother, and many other topics.
Marian Shields Robinson didn’t want to move to Washington, D.C. when her daughter, Michelle Obama, became First Lady in 2009. But her grandchildren, Sasha and Malia, were only seven and ten, and Marian was worried about them, she said in a recent interview with Gayle King of CBS This Morning.
The world has fallen in love with the way Janice Clark reads to her grandson.
Maurice Stallard was murdered in Kentucky last week while shopping with his grandson at Kroger’s. The alleged killer, who is white, likely targeted him because he was black.
A housewife from West Virginia fought for years to get a national holiday for grandparents declared. In 1978, she won.
