Years That Answer

Yesterday  I hung out with our grandson, N. We went downtown and looked at books, games, and clever Halloween thingies. Then we bought an un...

When I was a young wife and mother, my grandmother was poor as a church mouse, but she once slipped me $20 so my cranky grandpa couldn't...

I often think of my paternal Grandma. I love her beyond words. Well, maybe I'm being dramatic. I could probably describe how much I love...

Living conditions were not hard for my mother's family during the Great Depression. The family was large, but Grandpa's job as a rai...

Blogger friend Roderick "Robbie" Robinson left a provocative comment on my last post. It inspired me to imagine what might have ha...

Sometimes I make ice cream. I bought an ice cream maker about a year ago, after watching The Great British Baking Show. It looked easy. It i...

We had visitors last weekend! Tom's daughter, R, her daughter (our granddaughter) S, and our great-granddaughter C. She is 18 months old...

  I'm having a hard time writing blog posts. It's more inability than reluctance.  I like to write first thing in the morning. Howev...

I find myself thinking of my grandmother. She was kind, good, and loving. I want, so much, to be the kind of grandmother to my grandkids (an...

Christmas Eve was the high point in my youth. My large family exchanged presents from siblings on the night before Christmas. We would have ...

I'm trying to get excited about Thanksgiving. It's a lovely holiday and deserves some of my time and attention. Other people's T...

I was never beautiful, although I think there were times in my life when I was reasonably attractive. If not attractive because of beauty, t...

Guess which charming Florida retirees are going to become great-grandparents at the end of this year?  Yahooooooo.

We took care of our 7-year old grandson, N, for 7 hours the other day. Here's what we did: Made weapons out of Tinker Toys. Grandma a...

The other night, while driving our 6 year old grandson home, we made up silly and a slightly naughty lyrics to Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindee...

Yes, I am bone tired. I am back from the family wedding that warranted my new haircut. I had a great time, filled with family, old friends, ...

I picked up my 6 year old grandson from school yesterday. My daughter asked me to take him to the mall to buy plastic animals for a diorama ...

Our beloved granddaughter, E, recently spent the night with us. While she was here, we got a FaceTime call from old friends. E observed as ...

The last Grandma story (for now): Grandma was a fundamentalist Protestant and a Pentecostal charismatic who talked in tongues when the spi...

--This treasure is a letter from my Tennessee grandmother (1905-2000) to my daughter, written in February 1981, for the occasion of...