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Carol Covin, Chic Grandma Expert

Carol Covin
Chic Grandma

Hi! I am the mother of two grown sons and grandmother of a grandson and granddaughter, now 5.

I have written 7 books, the most recent for mothers and grandmothers, called "Who Gets to Name Grandma? The Wisdom of Mothers and Grandmothers." It is based on 40 interviews in which I asked, "What advice would you like to give the other generation?"

Proceeds of the books go to support a company I founded, Sky Blue Pharmaceuticals, LLC, to bring a cancer treatment to market. Enjoy getting to know what other mothers have to say about raising the next generation! When Mothers Talk - Cancer Walks! My blog is at  http://www.newgrandmas.com.


Carol's Past Articles
  • Goodnight Moon. Book Thursday.
  • Back to Sleep
  • When Did They Start Making Ketchup Bottles Upside Down?
  • When Did They Put Whistles on Life Jackets?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, May 20, 2012
  • A Coin. Poetry Corner.
  • How Do You Make a Helicopter from Paper? Fun with Grandchildren.
  • Why Would You Put Butter in the Well? Book Thursday.
  • When Did They Start Putting Game Consoles in Airports?
  • When Did They Start Putting Electrical Outlets in Bars for the Customers?
  • Do Your Ties Have Zippers?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, May 13, 2012
  • Grandparent Poems. Loss.
  • Do You Make Popcorn on the Stove or In the Microwave? Fun with Grandchildren.
  • How To Do Nothing with Nobody. Book Thursday.
  • How Many Games of Online Scrabble Do You Have Going?
  • When Does Mommy Become Mom?
  • Does Your Mom Forward You Articles?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, May 6, 2012
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, May 6, 2012
  • Grandmother. Poems. Wisdom.
  • Can You Make Popcorn Kernels Dance? Fun with Grandchildren.
  • Tales from Fern Hollow. Book Thursday.
  • Did You Ever Embarrass Your Children?
  • How Did Your Parents Teach You to Be Frugal?
  • When Did You Get a Mr. Coffee?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, April 29, 2012
  • Ice Magic. Fun with Grandchildren.
  • Where Did You Go? Out. Book Thursday.
  • You Mean People Didn’t Get to America by Walking Across the Bering Strait?
  • That’s What Grandpas Are For. Grandchildren Quotes.
  • Is There Something of Your Mother’s You Always Wanted?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, April 22, 2012
  • Grandmas. Poems. Wisdom.
  • What Can You Do with a Candle and a Balloon? Fun with Grandchildren.
  • Peekaboo with the Moon. Book Thursday.
  • When Did You Learn How to Cure Hiccups?
  • Did You Have Sugar Cubes or Shots?
  • What Am I Going To Do with My Cookie Cutters?
  • What Does It Take to Make An Egg Float? Fun with Grandchildren.
  • Writing As a Way of Healing. Book Thursday.
  • Maybe the Daddy Mouse Had Four of the Babies
  • Where Is Your Smallpox Scar?
  • Have You Ever Gone to the White House Easter Egg Roll?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, April 8, 2012 (Easter)
  • Grandparents. Poems. Loss.
  • Can You Write On a Hard-Boiled Egg Before You Peel It? Fun with Grandchildre.
  • Can You Write On a Hard-Boiled Egg Before You Peel It? Fun with Grandchildren.
  • Emperor of All Maladies. Book Thursday.
  • Who Taught You To Ride a Bike?
  • Depending on the Kindness of Strangers.
  • Have You Ever Had a Mouse In Your House?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, April 1, 2012
  • What Happens When You Swing Two Cups? Fun Friday.
  • Can a Sidewalk End? Book Thursday.
  • What Is It About February and Suicide?
  • When Did We Start Teaching Animals Sign Language?
  • Have You Ever Seen the Cherry Blossoms in Washington, DC?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, March 25, 2012
  • Grandmas. Poems. Loss.
  • Where Are You? Fun Friday.
  • How Do You End Illness? Book Thursday.
  • When Was the Last Time You Grew Sweet Potato Vines from a Sweet Potato?
  • Is 98.2 Degrees Fahrenheit the New Normal?
  • Got Milk?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, March 18, 2012
  • Grandmothers. Poems. Loss.
  • Where Do Mountains Come From? Frugal Friday.
  • How Many Hats Did Bartholomew Cubbins Have? Book Thursday.
  • When Did We Find Out Animals Use Tools?
  • When Did We Start Teaching Babies Sign Language?
  • How Many Clocks Do You Reset?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, March 11, 2012
  • What Do Sugar Cubes Have To Do with Putting a Bike Together? Frugal Friday.
  • Did You Read the Bobbsey Twins Growing Up? Book Thursday.
  • When Did You First Get Voice Mail at Home?
  • Did You Ever Solve the Rubik’s Cube?
  • Do Offices Still Use Fax Machines?
  • Weekly Recap. March 4, 2012
  • Grandparents. Poems. Wisdom.
  • What Can You Do with Leftover Crayons? Frugal Friday.
  • How Many Berenstain Bears Books Do You Have? Book Thursday
  • When Did Hats Go Out of Style?
  • Do You Have Any Family Secrets You Haven’t Told Your Children?
  • Do You Carry a Thumbdrive With You?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, February 26, 2012
  • Grandfather. Poems. Funny.
  • What Can You Do with Socks and a Deck of Cards? Frugal Friday
  • What Does What You Eat Have to Do with Cancer? Book Thursday.
  • When Did Women Stop Wearing Surgical Masks in the Maternity Ward?
  • Did Anyone Ever Tell You a Story That Made You Feel a Lot Better?
  • Aren’t Whooping Cranes Extinct?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, February 19, 2012
  • Grandparents. Poems. Wishes.
  • Why Doesn’t a Golf Ball Fall Faster Than a Tennis Ball? Frugal Friday.
  • Does Attitude Matter in Cancer? Book Thursday.
  • Do You Use Self-Serve at the Grocery Store?
  • He Married Me Anyway.
  • Do You Remember When Gas Stations Used to Give Free Gifts?
  • Weekly Recap. February 12, 2012
  • Grandmas. Poems. Warm
  • Can You Coat a Nail with Copper from Pennies? Frugal Friday.
  • What Does a Llama Have to Do With Pajamas? Book Thursday
  • What Do You Do That Is a Family Tradition?
  • Did You Ever Have a Fall-Out Shelter?
  • When Do You Take Your Christmas Tree Down?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, February 5, 2012
  • Grandma. Poems. Loss.
  • What Happens When You Blow A Ping Pong Ball Through a Funnel? Frugal Friday.
  • What Are Moomins? Book Thursday.
  • Did Your Mom Ever Stop You from Doing Something and You Found Out Later She Was Right?
  • Whatever Happened to the Sacajawea Coin?
  • Did You Ever Learn Something That Explained a Lot of Other Things?
  • Weekly Recap. January 29, 2012
  • Weekly Recap. January 29, 2012
  • Weekly Recap. January 29, 2012
  • Grandparents. Poems. Funny.
  • Can You Blow Out a Candle with a Funnel? Frugal Friday.
  • Belinda Is a Treasured Childhood Memory. Book Thursday.
  • Joe. Joe.
  • What Are Top 10 Tips for a Long Marriage?
  • Do Your Brooms Come with Holes in the Handles?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, January 22, 2012
  • Poems. Grandchildren. Funny.
  • How Much Blood Is In the Human Body? Frugal Friday.
  • What Is the Western Diet? Food Rules. Book Thursday.
  • Who First Broke the 4-Minute Mile?
  • Did Your Family Have an Encyclopedia?
  • Why Are There Three Bathrooms?
  • Weekly Recap. January 15, 2012.
  • How Many Liters of Coke Are In a 12-Ounce Can? Frugal Friday.
  • A Grandpa Looks Back. Pennies from a Heav’n. Book Thursday.
  • Whatever Happened to the Green Plastic Window You Pasted On Your TV Screen?
  • How Many Remote Controls Do You Have?
  • What Is the Fosbury Flop?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, January 8, 2012
  • What’s the Best Deal? Frugal Friday.
  • What Does a Memory Championship Have To Do With Cancer? Book Thursday.
  • What Does a Memory Championship Have To Do With Cancer? Book Thursday.
  • When Was the First Time You Used an ATM Card?
  • Do You Remember Green Stamps?
  • When Did Billboards Disappear?
  • Weekly Recap. January 1, 2012
  • How Do You Make Pepper Jump Onto a Straw? Frugal Friday.
  • Christmas Gift! Book Thursday.
  • How Does An Old, Used Bottle Become a Memory?
  • Were You Part of a Christmas Cookie Exchange This Year?
  • How Did We Win a Free Trip to Mexico City?
  • How Did We Win a Free Trip to Mexico City?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, December 25, 2011
  • How Can You Make a Plastic Bottle Cave In Without Touching It? Frugal Friday.
  • The Littlest Angel. Book Thursday.
  • Who Wrote Jingle Bells?
  • Who Wrote Jingle Bells?
  • What Will Be In the Toe of Your Stocking?
  • Homemade Gifts for Grandma.
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, December 18, 2011
  • When Is A Piece of Paper Like An Airplane Wing? Frugal Friday.
  • Did You Have an Elf On the Shelf Tradition? Book Thursday.
  • What Do You Remember from Before You Were Three?
  • Things for Kids to Make for Their Grandparents for Christmas.
  • Does Your House Chirp?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, December 11, 2011
  • When Is Red Not Red? Frugal Friday.
  • Where Do You Pick Blueberries in Maine? Book Thursday.
  • Did You Ever Wear Your Mom’s Clothes?
  • I Miss You, Roomie.
  • Did You Ever Put Aluminum Foil on Your TV Antenna?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, December 4, 2011
  • Can You Put Your Head Through a Business Card?
  • Is Misty of Chincoteague Real? Book Thursday.
  • When Was the Last Time Someone Pumped Your Gas For You?
  • When Was the Last Time You Treated a Burn with Butter?
  • Did You Ever Fall Asleep to the TV Test Pattern?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, November 27, 2011
  • Can You Stand on One Foot? Frugal Friday.
  • What Is the First Book You Learned to Read? Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Book Thursday.
  • What Kind of Stuffing Do You Make?
  • Did Someone Else’s Mother Teach You Anything?
  • Did Someone Else’s Mother Teach You Anything?
  • What Happened Yesterday in NCAA Women’s Basketball?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, November 20, 2011
  • Where Is Your Center of Gravity?
  • How Is Pinocchio Like the Velveteen Rabbit?
  • Do You Know How to Use a Slide Rule?
  • Why Do We Have Kudzu All Over the South?
  • What Time Is It?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, November 13, 2011
  • How Do You Keep Someone from Standing Up? Frugal Friday
  • What Do You Say to a Chaplain Who Gets Cancer? Book Thursday.
  • Did You Ever Sell Girl Scout Cookies?
  • How Many Unlabeled Keys Do You Own?
  • How Much Highway Does It Take to Land a Plane?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, November 6, 2011
  • Guest Blogger David Haas: Talking About Cancer
  • How Do You Suspend a Grape in Liquid? Frugal Friday.
  • What Can a Cancer Patient Learn from Tolstoy? Book Thursday.
  • How Many Planets Are There?
  • How Many Cigarette Lighters Do You Have in Your Car?
  • Where Is the Little Brown Church in the Vale?
  • Weekly Recap. October 30, 2011
  • Can You Poke a Straw into a Potato? Frugal Friday
  • What Are the Odds? Book Thursday
  • Have You Switched Out All Your Light Bulbs Yet?
  • How Do You Build a School from Trash?
  • You Can Get Your Kicks on Route 66.
  • Weekly Recap. October 23, 2011
  • How Do Buttons Teach Math? Frugal Friday.
  • What Happens If a Doctor Gets Cancer? Book Thursday.
  • Did You Ever Shovel Sand on Hills So Cars Could Go Up in the Snow?
  • What Did You Want to Be When You Grew Up?
  • Who Taught You to Sew On a Button?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, October 16, 2011
  • What Can You Do With Leftover Soap? Frugal Friday.
  • How Do You End Malaria? Book Thursday.
  • When Was the First Time You Voted?
  • When Did You Stop Licking Stamps?
  • Five-Second Rule. True or False?
  • Weekly. Recap. Sunday, October 9, 2011
  • How Do You Make a Game with Two Pennies and a Cup of Flour? Frugal Friday.
  • Eat Alone. Not. Book Thursday.
  • When Did School Buses Get Arms?
  • Toy. Chest.
  • What Causes Earthquakes?
  • Weekly Recap. Sunday, October 2, 2011
  • Weekly. Recap. Sunday, September 18, 2011
  • Old Maid. Games for Life. Frugal friday.
  • Fresh. Doughnuts. Neighbors.
  • Anger. Stages of Grief.
  • Grandpa. Cards.
  • Anger. Understanding. Book Thursday.
  • Shortcake. Carnival. Who Invented the Strawberry Shortcake Doll? Frugal Friday.
  • Weekly. Recap. Sunday, September 25, 2011
  • Kitchen. Hammer. How to Hang a Picture.
  • War. Art. Cancer? Book Thursday.
  • Trunk. Car. How Do You Get Out Of a Car Trunk?
  • Grandchildren. Droppings.
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