I come from a line of curse-laying women

don't get excited, it isn't glamorous

My paternal grandmother laid curses, and so did her mother. I imagine there were generations of curse-laying women prior, but I don’t know for sure. There tend to be.

My paternal grandmother and her mother were fairly typical eastern European kitchen witches, as I understand it, though I know my grandmother would have snorted with disdain at that label…