Assuming all goes well I will become a grandfather for the 4th time later this year. By the time the baby is due, my wife will be 70 and I will be almost 70. The realization that I will be 80 when my new grandchild is 10 and 90 when s/he is 20 is a sobering thought. Continue reading On Becoming A Grandfather Again
Category Archives: Personal – Grandchildren
Don’t CEO’s Care About Their Grandchildren?
Posted at 3 Quarks Daily
Reading about corporate greed and depredation over the past few years, I keep getting stuck on the same question: Don’t these people have grandchildren? Continue reading Don’t CEO’s Care About Their Grandchildren?
Random Musings
I recently finished a series of posts summarizing a lifetime of thinking on the meaning of life (they begin here if you’re interested.) Continue reading Random Musings
Letter To New Grandchild
Georgios Jakobides, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A New Life
(Note: since this post was published, two more grandchildren have been born. This post is dedicated to all our grandchildren.)
It’s early morning on May 16, 2017. About two hours ago, my wife and I picked up our four-year-old granddaughter, who is now safely with us. The occasion is the imminent birth of our new granddaughter, who should be born in the next few hours.
It is hard to know what to say about a new birth. There are about 353,000 births worldwide each day, about 255 each minute, and 4 each second. Continue reading Letter To New Grandchild
Advising Grandchildren
A perceptive reader commented about my recent post “Grandchildren.” Continue reading Advising Grandchildren