Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.