PenPenWrites

We’re now grownchildren.org.

We had to move from our old home (our host closed its doors, or rather its digital presence) and our domain name (grownchildren.net) became problematical. (I’m working on it!) Meanwhile, the new home at WordPress and slight variation on domain name promise to be a plus.

• First bonus: There’s a subscribe button in the left hand corner, and if I can figure out how to make it work (not easy), you’ll be able to subscribe to the parenting blog. You don’t have to subscribe to read the posts if you don’t want to: just type in grownchildren.org and you’re here.

• Second: I’ll be adding another page with notes and tidbits from my almost-finished memoir, The Time and Life Rules: Six decades, three upheavals and one writer’s journey to find her place in the world of work. As the subtitle suggests, I’m writing about my career as it played out amidst the cultural and workplace barriers, hurdles and other sometimes shocking challenges women have faced since the 1960s.

• Third: I’ll also be creating a page about a project I’ve been thinking about (and gathering data on) for years called Family Punchlines. It will be kinda what it sounds like. If I’m very zen-like and apply the parenting and grandparenting karma I’ve doled out in my blog, I might be able to persuade my artistically adept children and grandchildren to illustrate the amusing musings family and friends have said over the years,

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