Story archives - tag: "grandmother"

rollergirl

My 86-year-old grandmother told me she'd always wanted to "blaze up a fat one."

tags: humor weed shocking grandmother [add]

2008-04-18 10:17:03 / Rating: 291.75 /

Jessica

I was six when I woke up next to my grandma to find that she had died in her sleep.

tags: death grandmother childhood scared [add]

2008-04-02 13:50:04 / Rating: 126.75 /

Not quite yet.

My boyfriend's mother looked longingly at her niece's pregnant belly and sighed heavily before casting a sideways glance in my direction.

tags: pregnancy not ready 20s grandmother love awkward [add]

2008-03-26 13:17:29 / Rating: 124.25 /

DJDawson

On her deathbed, she reached for my hand despite not knowing exactly who I was and with a thin but honest smile, asked, "However did you escape?"

tags: grandmother death good-bye hello closure family love escape [add]

2008-01-31 12:09:26 / Rating: 192.75 /

Eerie

Her first attempt at CPR shouldn't have to have been on her own mother.

tags: mother grandmother CPR death unfair [add]

2008-01-18 10:52:35 / Rating: 124.25 /

katlyn

We would spend hours "painting" her weathered, old fence with water, pretending that we were using the whitest paint around.

tags: childhood make believe grandmother fence [add]

2007-12-11 11:31:55 / Rating: 117 /

Ken

My mom would have been a wonderful grandmother.

tags: death mother grandmother [add]

2007-08-01 12:37:24 / Rating: 241 /

cparisb4udie

I wondered why I was having trouble grieving the death of my mother when the counselor figured out I had not grieved the death of HER mother only 12 years earlier.

tags: death love mother grandmother grieving counseling therapy love [add]

2006-09-11 21:50:59 / Rating: 203 /