Essays: Grandparents 18 Articles

by Ann Clemmons

My siblings and I were lucky enough to have been afforded the luxury of having a close relationship with our grandparents. We also inherited more than the obvious physical characteristics. The adage "fruit doesn't fall far...read more

by Chun Choi

People said when you look in your parents, you probably will know how your grandparents looks like. Sure, it is involving about their talking manner, character, temper, appearance etc., as well as their shapes of body. S...read more

by Rebecca Bartholomew

Working Hands. My grandfather had one of the most cluttered, dusty, dirty, noisy workrooms I have yet to see the likes of. He worked in there happily mumbling under his breath with a toothpick forever stuck between his t...read more

by Angelica Weathersby

My maternal grandparents were an unusual couple from the beginning, in that they grew up in two different houses on the same farm. It was an extended-family farm, and they were some sort of cousins, though not too close f...read more

by Carolyn Lanier

It was sixty seven years ago a beautiful young woman of eighteen met and fell in love with a twenty five year old, very good looking blond hair, blue eyed guy in an Air Force uniform. After dating awhile they married, fiv...read more

by Robin Landry

Joan Rivers, Carol Burnett, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock represent just some of the great comedic talents I have enjoyed over the years. However, I think many of us can probably enjoy great comed...read more

by Margaret Shauers

LINKING YOUR FAMILY CHAIN When I grew up - and during the early years of my children's childhood - life was so routine that wash day really did come on Monday, not whenever someone had time to pop in a load. Boring a...read more

by Gerry Macneil

My Gramma Kafer I never met any of my grandparents. You take that chance when you are the youngest of seven, and your parents are in their forties by the time you're born. Of the whole lot, I always felt most cheated th...read more

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by Tabitha Miley

"Okay, now I'm going to take the tube out of your throat so you can talk" the doctor said kindly. "Are you ready?" I nodded, eyes wide and fearful. The tube went up my nose and down my throat into my lungs, and I still rem...read more

by Kebrina Evans

My grandparents were the proud parents of ten kids. My father's parents died when I was eight years old. They had seven kids. When the kids were born (on my mother's side of the family) my grandmother up and left and left...read more

by Margaret Merrill

The names of the four most important people in my life, though important to me, do not really matter. Though their methods were all different, in the end they all achieved the same goal: to teach me how to love, uncondi...read more

by Falyn Dimas

In previous years most children lived with a mom and a dad. My family, however, follows the most recent trend that says a family can be made up of whoever you choose. My story starts the only place it can start; I was b...read more

by Lee Daniels

The young surveyor was lost in the Okefenokee Swamp. He struggled through the thick underbrush for several days before stumbling at daybreak onto a plowed field. In the near distance he saw a high fence surrounding a hog p...read more

by Tiff Poland

Firemen, country music singers, farmersevery little boy and girl has a dream, every little boy and girl has an answer ready when you ask, "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Well this nineteen-year-old little girl i...read more

by Paula Cohen

Doing It Right I have a photograph of her, taken when she was around eighteen, the height of fashion in her Gibson-girl pompadour and pouter-pigeon blouse, and wearing a top hat. The year would have been about 1908. ...read more

by Christobel Rajesh

randparents are parents who are grand. They have a great concern for their grand children. They are the ones who gave our beloved parents. Becoming a grandparent itself is a blessing and having a grandparent to care and gu...read more

by Jessica Abel

Stretching as far as my arm could go, I wrapped my hand around the vibrant, red apple that was clinging to the tree by its thin stem. Pulling quickly, I heard a small pop as it fell into my calloused hand. I leaned down an...read more

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by janesparklers

Now that I am a grandmother. I see things I did with my kids. Some of them make me happy. Others make me sad. Then there are those I now know were mistakes. I only have one grandson right now. He is my everything. Which is...read more