Baby Boomer Bubbe
The Movie in Our Minds…
Sandy Taradash goes out on new year’s eve and thinks about the “movie in our minds” about our life as we reach the final reel. [Read more…]
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Baby Boomer Bubbe
Feeling Grateful to Spend Quality Traveling Time with My Grandkids
Sandy Taradash tells about her recent European trip with her granddaughters. [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
Family Trauma: Perceptions Many Years Later…
A significant family trauma for Sandy Taradash resurfaces as a new generation makes its life plans. [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
You Are Invited…To Participate in the Jewish Baby Boomer Legacy Project!
You have a story. It is your legacy. For some, your journey may seem ordinary and mundane while for others, your journey may seem filled with ups and downs, with more than uncommon experiences. Whatever [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
Time…Oy Vey, Where is IT and Where did IT Go?
Approaching: 2018…how does that resonate with you? Make you shudder? Make you wonder where all the years have gone? Make you leery/apprehensive/disbelieving that it wasn’t yesterday that you were turning 18? Oy, those were the [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
Technology, Israel and a Bat Mitzvah!
-OMG! – Heavens to Murgatroid! – WTF! -Holy Moley! -Oy Gevalt! -WTH! -Heavens to Betsy! -Oy Vey! -Fiddlesticks! This is a fine kettle of fish we’re in when we can’t understand the language of our [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
Is This the New Normal?
What is happening in this world? As a kid you couldn’t imagine saying the year that didn’t start with 19 let alone say 2016 and live to write the year 20-something, for that would ensure [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
Ride that E Ticket in Disneyland on Your 70th Birthday!
That dreaded birthday was approaching and I realized I had been 70 for my entire 69th year! The day after my birthday I felt so relieved that it was over! What was that anticipation all [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
Pass Over
I can hear the Russian accents shrayening Yiddish barbs at one another, “You draykop!” “You’re such a shmendrick!” “Of course the goyim don’t understand!” This is the normal conversation and banter from Bubbe and [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
The Presidential Campaign: Sex, Lies and Videotapes or So It Seems…
Sandy Taradash confides in her diary about the current presidential campaign. [Read more…]