grandmothers – Page 3

Heirloom Hocked – Sheryl L. Nelms

November 22, 2012March 19, 2020 Author

I always gathered spring greens with Gram down by Mission Creek we would climb those steep banks picking dock dandelion lamb’s quarter sheep sorrel poke weed and nettles using knowledge handed down from mother to daughter from England and Ireland now with Gram dead and a mother who got too sophisticated become uncertain can’t quite remember how many times…

The Buck – Susanna Rich

November 21, 2012August 8, 2020 Author

When I was ten, Grandmother told me to get her stuffed when she died like the buck head by the door catching webs of evil in his antlers. She was to be seated in the living room on the sofa (or chair, our choice), facing the piano where I would play Brahms, Liszt and Chopin. Her eyes were to be open (maybe a…