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Grandmothers - you gotta love 'em. Little old blue-hairs with a shawl and a cup of tea, right? Maybe you'd better think again. Here's my take on grandmothers in the 21st century.

From the BBC News, a break-dancing grandmother in Japan

From the St. Petersburg Times,   Carla Wallenda, Grandmom Aerialist

How about a 70-year-old grandmother playing football?

From Psychology Today: The Grandma Thing - just don't call her Grandma!

Everybody's heard of Grandma Moses

A little Grandmothers humor

A poem of anonymous origin:

GRANDMA

In the dim and distant past
When life's tempo wasn't so fast,
Grandma used to rock and knit,
Crochet, tat and baby sit.

When the kids were in a jam,
They could always call on Gram.
But today she's in the gym
Exercising to keep slim.

She's checking the web or surfing the net,
Sending some e-mail or placing a bet.
Nothing seems to stop or block her,
Now that Grandma's off her rocker.

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You know you're getting older when...
Everything that works hurts, and what doesn't hurt doesn't work.
You feel like the morning after, and you haven't been anywhere.
Your little black book only contains names ending in M.D.
Your children are beginning to look middle-aged.
Your mind makes contracts your body can't keep.
You look forward to a dull evening.
Your knees buckle and your belt won't.
Your back goes out more than you do.
You sink your teeth into a steak, and they stay there.
You know all the answers, but nobody asks the questions.

The Gift of Grandmothers, an essay by Jim McGuiggen

Our Grandmothers, by Maya Angelou

Grandmother, by Hans Christian Anderson

Find out how classrooms in Utah are adopting Navajo grandmothers

"Grandmother" in Chinese characters

The sign for Grandmother in sign language

Time travel: The Grandmother Paradox

Into rock climbing? Try the Grandmother's Challenge

How to knit Grandma's favorite dishcloth

What is Little Red Riding Hood really all about?

Grandmother Drum international peace project

Grandmother Fortune Teller

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And finally a  few quotes:
Never have children, only grandchildren.  ~Gore Vidal
 

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.  ~Author Unknown

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
--George Brett

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
--G. Norman Collie

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the heck she is.
--Ellen DeGeneres

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
--Rita Rudner

Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.
--Edward H. Dreschnack