Six of my 12 grandchildren are black.
Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.
I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.
My parents have been married 50-some years, and I've never heard them fight. I got the chance to attend great universities and medical school.
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
My maternal grandmother was Cantonese, so I'm a quarter Chinese and half Irish and a quarter Scottish and raised by English parents living in Scotland.
My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
