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Grandma & Grandpa Rudy - The Depression YearsGrandma Rudy just about wrote my first term paper… I was in the 11th grade and I had to write a paper on the Great Depression. We didn’t have computers or the internet then, and, our set of encyclopedias only went to the letter “C” since Dad stopped shopping at the ACME supermarket that year. That weekend we had our usual Sunday dinner at Grandma’s and Grandpa’s, so...
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Is your son or daughter visiting Grandpa or Grandma soon?
The next time your kids visit one of their aging relatives who may be living in an assisted living center or skilled nursing home tell them to bring their laptop full of interesting pictures. Laptops are a great device for viewing pictures by the elderly who have sight problems. The picture can be made bigger on a laptop and you can ‘zoom’ in on a face or some other interesting item in the...
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Grandpa BellHe runs fast and carries a big stick. How the man they call 'Grandpa Bell' broke the world record 11 times in a single competition - what some call the greatest single performance in the history of track and field.
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Is your son or daughter visiting Grandpa or Grandma soon?
Then next time your kids visit one of their aging relatives who may be living in an assisted living center or skilled nursing home tell them to bring their laptop full of interesting pictures.Laptops are a great device for viewing pictures by the elderly who have sight problems. The picture can be made bigger on a laptop and you can ‘zoom’ in on a face or some other interesting item in...
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Lifelong Learning Minute: Grandma's Got Game!Grandma and grandpa got (video) game! Wii and Playstation may be the hottest toys for kids, but they're sharing joysticks with people who are twice their age and keeping active...virtually.
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Breathing Easy AgainWhen doctors told Reuben McDonald that his failing lungs only had a few breaths left in them, he decided to become his own health advocate. After a double lung transplant, he's breathing easy and sharing his story with others who have lost hope.
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Summer Fun at Grandma'sSometimes, when I was a child, I was downright evil – not evil like Linda Blair in The Exorcist where her head was spinning around as she was spewing out green split pea soup, but evil nonetheless. Take the incident with my cousin, Eloise, for example, when we were both about 12 years old. It was summertime and we were at our grandparents’ home in North Florida. They had an outdoor shower...
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Grandpa Bell
These days, one of the top athletes in the Bell Athletics training center is Earl's Father, Dr. William "Papa" Bell. Last year at the U.S. Masters Championships in Boston, Papa Bell put on one of the most dominating performances in sports history.
