S5E18: A Portal to Your Grands

02/18/22 • 22 min

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The Grand Life: Wholehearted Grandparenting

Emily visits with podcast fan Kim from Dallas and learns about a particular kind of "picturephone," the Facebook Portal, that has brought her long-distance grandkids closer.

Kim's book recommendations included Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman and The Aminal by Lorna & Lecia Balian.

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Emily visits with podcast fan Kim from Dallas and learns about a particular kind of "picturephone," the Facebook Portal, that has brought her long-distance grandkids closer.

Kim's book recommendations included Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman and The Aminal by Lorna & Lecia Balian.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S5E17: Chat: Chef Hats and Grandcamps

Emily and her husband/producer Mike chat about the recent live video episode on cooking with grands (replay here on YouTube). Also, a listener provides a guest essay for "The Stretch It Takes" on a grand camp that included cooking, with cool ideas on what you can do for your own.

The recipes for our cooking live video show are here.

John and Patty, Two Chefs In The Kitchen, do a twice-monthly live cooking show on the streaming video service Beamz--you can sign up for their free series here.

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S5E19: Chat: Faces and Futures

Emily and husband/producer Mike talk through the experiences of connecting with distant grands using offshoots of the Picturephone, shown in our cover art (a 1964 magazine ad for AT&T). Whether you use Facebook Portal, FaceTime, Zoom, or something else, faces are important on both sides of the connection. Plus, "The Stretch It Takes" deals with how we flex into that communications future.

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