Grandma’s Life

My 15 minute writing prompt yesterday was: Write about your Grandmother’s childhood.

Once I started writing, I realized I knew very little about either of my Grandmothers’ lives. My dad’s mom had had a bed-confining stroke before I was born. Her speech was greatly affected. My mom’s mom I spent a lot of time with, and she would usually be the one to watch us if my parents had to go away, but still I know very little about her childhood.

I know that they both had siblings, and I had warm relationships with all of them, but all of them lived far away, so I didn’t see them often, and never really had one-on-one time with them.

Once I exhausted the information that I had, I began to write about my childhood with my grandmothers. That proved much more fruitful. At least my future grandchildren will have a write legacy of my life.