“I don’t care that much about getting older, but I don’t want to be forgotten, because to be remembered is to live and to be loved.”
― Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
― Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
“There are really only two commandments of Nanaville: love the grandchildren, and hold your tongue.”
― Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
― Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
“Because I’m learning that being a grandmother is not about the things you have to do. It’s about the things you want to do. The fact is that motherhood is mainly about requirements.”
― Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
― Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
“I’m reading, and lo and behold, there it is: my passport. Being used as a bookmark. “I found it!” I yell out. “See? I told you that glass trick would work.”
― Things I Wish I Told My Mother
― Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“In Nanaville there is always in the back of my mind the understanding that I am building a memory out of spare parts and that, someday, that memory will be all that’s left of me.”
― Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
― Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
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