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This Blog by Cher’ley Grogg

My one Grandma died when I was 12. but she gave me

a lifetime of memories. I remember her hugs and the way the food she prepared tasted. She was diabetic so she always had candy around her house. I remember the Fizzies she kept in her refrigerator and how she had to feel her dishes to make sure she had them clean.

Fizzies Candy Drink Tablets Six Pack They did not cost half a pay check in the 1960’s. Fizzies

I watched as she added stuff from the jar in the middle of her table to her coffee or tea. I knew it was like liquid sugar. One day I picked it up and took a big swig. It was so nasty. I have never since then used saccharin straight from the bottle. Do they still make saccharin?

Her yard was like a big playground with hillsides to slide down, apple trees to climb and grape arbors to hide under and her house was fascinating.

She taught me to play solitaire against Old Soul and how to fix creamed tomatoes. I could spend the day writing about the fun experiences I had with Grandma.

Some things really remind me of her like hummingbirds, aprons, table cloths and flowered dishes.

Early this morning I was washing an old bowl that had a couple of chips on the back of the rim and age lines and I thought of Grandma.

As a writer, I always put old people in my stories. I really

, cropped from photo of “Grandma Moses donating her painting “Battle of Bennington” to Mrs. George Kuhner who accepts it for DAR.” (Photo cropped because the painting itself is most likely still copyrighted.) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

like spunky or funny old people. In Stamp Out Murder, I have the two old geezers (which almost everyone has known a couple of men just like them) and in The Secret in Grandma’s Trunk, Grandma is very spirited, just like my mother was with her grandchildren.

How has your Grandparents effected your life? And if you are a writer, do you ever put your grandparents or at least things they have taught you in your stories?

Sta mp Out Murder”.