Story archives - tag: "grandmother"

TS

After he died, I thought my grandmother would still love my sisters and me.

tags: father grandmother [add]

2010-02-09 12:29:20 / Rating: 113.75 /

Joe

My grandmother once challenged me to a drinking contest, then proceeded to concoct an elaborate plan to cheat and win that involved her identical twin sister... and people wonder where I get it.

tags: grandmother twin drinking contest elaborate plan [add]

2009-06-29 15:44:57 / Rating: 446.5 /

vermilion

The most prominent memory I have of my grandmother is the night she tried to kill me.

tags: grandmother murder alzheimer's family traumatic childhood memories [add]

2009-05-08 12:46:51 / Rating: 296.5 /

Alvin

During the party, an awkward silence fell in the room after my wife's grandmother asked me loudly if I'd ever seen a shaved beaver.

tags: grandmother shaved beaver humor [add]

2009-02-04 14:43:55 / Rating: 403 /

kari

I never really believed my mom's stories of how abusive her childhood was until two days ago when my grandmother pulled me aside and quietly informed me that she wished she had never ever adopted that nasty little irish girl.

tags: abuse deceit grandmother adoption childhood trauma [add]

2008-09-11 20:01:57 / Rating: 443.75 /

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: 623.75 /

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: 368.75 /

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: 337.75 /

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: 450.75 /

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: 324.25 /

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: 304.25 /

Ken

My mom would have been a wonderful grandmother.

tags: death mother grandmother [add]

2007-08-01 12:37:24 / Rating: 451.75 /

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: 414.25 /