Be Strong!

notes from a 100th birthday party

Tomorrow this little girl turns 100. She didn’t know it at the time, of course, but eventually she would become my maternal grandmother, witnessing en route all but the first 23 years of the 20th century and all 23 years of the 21st that have unfolded thus far.

This past weekend, I traveled north to attend her birthday party. Much of the extended famil…