eating a grapefruit that she insisted on sectioning with the precision of a brain surgeon.
last night grandmother and i had a long chat about love.
its an interesting topic to broach with someone sixty years older than you
someone who, as far as i knew, had been alone ever since my no-good-war-crazed-genius-inventor-grandfather literally peaced out never to be heard from again when my mother was 13.
i knew she raised my mother alone.
i know shes alone now.
but why would i assume that my grandmother, strong-willed, wise, independent, warm, full of love and endowed with a wicked sense of humor never mind her baking skills, would not have sought out and found another love at some point in the last fifty years?
i shouldn't have...
i don't know who enjoyed the stories more, me or her.
i've always known grandmother was ahead of her time but yikes.
she was doin' in the fifties what they thought was revolutionary in the sixties.
that's all i'll say.
speaking of strong willed, quick witted women... and geniuses:grandmother and i watched Bill Moyer interview a intellectual of the best kind last night on his show, her name is Susan Jacoby.
she just wrote a book, The Age of American Unreason, that i'm running out to buy.
and i can't recommend it more to anyone who wants to know what the hell is going on with American education, (and not just primary, i'm talking college) politics, religion, and general widespread ignorance.
i know, i know, theres so many of them out there on the topic, but if you only read one, read this.
she was calling us OUT last night in this interview.
young, old, left, right, agnostic, christian, scientologist, wiccan, whatever.
but somehow, even though she's slapping us all up side the head, it feels good.
its more like a wake up call than a whipping
and you want another.
she writes a blog for The Washington Post that I just checked out and it confirmed my suspicion:
she should be running the world.
read about her here
read a excellent excerpt from her book here
read her blog here
and heres to women who know what they want.
(and men! and men! love you too guys!)
no, but seriously.
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