Doctor Grandma

I have lived in 4 states,

20 different houses or apartments (and actually more if you count living in different apts. in the same building),

had 4 kids,

now 7 grandkids,

pets I wont’ even count but none right now,

I’ve been a Presbyterian, a Methodist, and a Baha’i,

held various jobs including hat check girl at a skating rink,

waitress, CVS clerk, Library clerk for 15 years,

stay-at-home mom for 11 years,

got my Bachelors at age 44, Masters at 47 and PhD at age 55,

now have a title, Assoc. Professor of sociology and criminal justice, which means nothing in the long run and it doesn’t necessarily make you SMART. That comes with a critical mind and wisdom.

Dyed my hair brown, red, and blonde, now a natural white.

Started out privileged, at one point became poor, now somewhere in between,

Lived through Civil Rights era, murder of Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Kennedy again, Hippie movement, Student protests against Vietnam, Feminist movement, We are the 99% and Black Lives Matter movement still continuing, Covid-19 to date.

It is discouraging to me we are not farther along, that we still resist the simple truth there is one human race we are all a part of,

that women still suffer from lack of education, lack of advancement, that we still wreck the earth with our disrespect of nature, that we now have a plastic island in the middle of the ocean, that people still go hungry every day…

I have lost my grandparents, mother, father, a brother, uncles, aunt, cousin, brother-in-law, mother-and-father-in-law. As long as my brain and body continue, I will continue to work to leave this place a little bit better for my being here, for the Glory of God and the love of life. That is my hope.