Today is my Grandmama's birthday even
though I doubt I will get this posted today. I have mentioned her in
dozens of my blogs and have spoken about her at length with my
friends. I was around her for the first part of my childhood (the
smart years) and learned a lot from her that I would later apply to
my adult life in terms of attitude and how to behave with
people...good and bad. This is going to be Five Things I Learned From
Grandmama.
It is gonna be hard to write that few
so I'm gonna try and write about the ones that impacted me the most.
A little information about Grandmama. That is her name. Grandma was
my father's mother and Grandmama is my mother's mama. She was born in
Texas. She outlived all of her 10 other brothers and sisters. She was
Native American. Had red hair that she finally stopped coloring once
she was in her 80's. She loved cooking, the Los Angeles Lakers, and I
once saw her launch a boy off the porch. She loved smoking cigarettes
and Diet Cokes. She was very sweet, could be funny, but refused to
take shit from people.
