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GRAND contributors THe MAgAziNe foR gRANDPAReNTS www.gRANDmagazine.com WENDY REID CRISP editor in Chief SIMONE TIEBER Art Director MARY ANN COOPER Senior editor CHRISTINE BETTENCOURT Copy editor Al Martinez (“The Bar Mitzvah Trips,” page 30) has been a journalist for more than 50 years and says he is still able to tie his own shoelaces and find his way home. Currently a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, he has always considered himself as being in a pro tem position, due to an utter lack of faith in himself. He promises, however, to keep trying. Among his achievements during the effort are attachments to three Pulitzers, two National Headliner Awards, an Ernie Pyle Award and other, less notable honors; also, a dozen books, a television movie, many TV pilots and episodes, the creation of two primetime TV series, and a variety of hymns, psalms and odes he shares with no one. He has a wife, Joanne, whom he calls by her maiden name, Cinelli, three grown children, five grandchildren, a dog, a street cat, a turtle and a bad-natured squirrel that lives in an oak tree outside his home in the Santa Monica village of Topanga. Ruth Nathan, Ph.D., (“Everything Was Fine Until You Showed Up,” page 50) works at UC Berkeley as a research scientist, but says her “best job” is taking care of her grandchildren. For fun she builds and maintains “all sorts” of gardens and swims as many laps as she can every day. CHAELEEN HOLZHAUER Production Associate HOLLY LENTZ editorial Assistant Contributing editors Ruth Nathan, Brigitte Castellano, Mary Duffy, Helaine Shilling, Michelle Briseno-Tucker, Tiffany Sharpe, Anna Gervait, Barbara Hunting-Hanley, Galen Miller, Fran Weber Teall, Ru Mahoney, Robert M. Strozier foR CuSToMeR SeRviCe AND ADDReSS CHANgeS Jeanne Sager (“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” page 40) is a freelance writer (and mom) who lives in upstate New York. A regular contributor to parenting magazines, she’s written for Babble.com and is a regular columnist on Burbia. com. Her award-winning columns are also available on her blog at jeannesager. blogspot.com. Liz Hughes Wiley (“Pasta, Present and Future,” page 58) is an instructor and poet whose work has been featured in PrairiePoetry.com, Passager, Microcosmos and Permafrost. In 2006, she was honored by Prairie Poetry with its 2006 Friends Prize and the 2006 Peer Award. Liz has an M.S. in education from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Wichita State University. Michelle Briseno-Tucker (“BPA: Not Our BFF,” page 32) is a contributing editor of GRAND magazine and the founder of Eden’s Kiss organic lotions and balms (www. Edenskiss.com). “Just So We Know” is a regular feature in this magazine; Michelle is also a published poet. She and her husband, Tracy, and daughters, Corabelle and Sasha, live in Ferndale, California. Jackie Clements-Marenda (“Confessions of a Backyard Grand,” page 34) was born in Brooklyn into a close-knit family whose appetite for eclectic literature provided a diverse literary diet from Nancy Drew and the Bible to Shakespeare and Zane Grey. She is a grandmother of two and is currently working on a multigenerational saga set in post-World-War-II Brooklyn. 800-810-0260 PRODUCT REVIEWS Please visit www.grandmagazine.com or products@grandmagazine.com Mail samples for review to GRAND Magazine Editorial, 989 Milton, #3D, Ferndale, California 95536 Please visit www.grandmagazine.com Printed in the USA by RR Donnelley GRAND Media, LLC, allows carefully screened third parties to rent the GRAND subscriber file from time to time. If you prefer that we not include your name, please write us at GRAND Magazine, 4791 Baywood Point Drive South, St. Petersburg, FL 33711 or e-mail admin@grandmagazine.com GRAND VOL. 4 NO. 5 (ISSN 1553-9202) is published bimonthly by GRAND Media, LLC 4791 Baywood Point Drive South, St. Petersburg, FL 33711 T. 866-327-9039 F. 727-323-9587 Application to mail at periodicals postage rate is pending at St. Petersburg, FL and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send change of address to GRAND Magazine P.O. Box 420235, Palm Coast, FL 32164 Contents © 2008 by GRAND Media, LLC SUBMISSIONS/QUERIES Debbie Baisden (“Grand-proofing,” page 26) is a freelance writer and self-proclaimed “church lady” who was formerly a higher education administrator and legislative analyst. She and her husband, Gary, escaped the urban hubbub of Austin, Texas, a couple of years ago to live the good life in Deep East Texas (and have never looked back). Debbie is the mother of five children—ages 33 to 3 (no, that’s not a typo). Two of the kids (Katie, 3, and Michael, 12) are still at home, and she and Gary have three beautiful grandsons who visit often. “My house has been childproof for 30 years and apparently always will be!” says Debbie. 6 GRAND MAY JUNE 2008 Magazine Publishers of America 6 GRAND SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 2008 http://www.grandmagazine.com http://www.Babble.com http://www.blogspot.com http://www.PrairiePoetry.com http://www.grandmagazine.com http://www.Edenskiss.com http://www.grandmagazine.com

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Grand Magazine- September/October 2008 Grand View:�Priceless Contents Isn't it Grand?: Picture Perfect Winners!: GRANDparent of the Year Grand Central Toddler Town:�Grand-proofing Ask Grand:�Two Tired Tips on Teens: The Bar Mitzvah Trips Just So We Know:�BPA Not Our BFF Full House-Full Heart-Full Time:�Confessions of a Backyard Grand Grandbloggers: It Takes a Village Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Family + Food = Fun On the Cover: Nora Roberts A Fine Romance Everything Was Fine Until You Showed Up Happy Big Sister Day Looking Grand:�Elementary, My Dear All in the Family:�Pasta, Present and Future Reunions:�Doubleheader Inspirations:�Grandpa's Violin Grand Bazaar More to the Story Grand Finale:�Long Ago Under the Sun

Grand Magazine - September/October 2008

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