Tag: grandparents

When her grandfather died, Abigail Rasminsky learned about a part of his life she’d known nothing about.

Rebecca Wong integrates new information into her understanding and appreciation of her grandfather, and how he survived the Holocaust.

Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.

Families are complicated. Caring for Grandpa John was even more so.

After changing her conservative grandfather’s mind about affirmative action, Danielle Tcholakian commits to trying to get through to people whose politics are very different from her own.

Kate Axelrod reflects on the last days of her grandmother’s life, and witnessing as her grandfather’s own decline helped him to survive losing his wife of 66 years.

A toddler teaches her grandfather about the deep emotional structure of babies and adults, the perfect yoga pose for a complete meltdown, and the imperative to boogie.

“We see our parents aging before our eyes, but we regard our grandparents as such oaks, their mortality not once entering our thoughts because they have always, to us, been old. By the time I began to realize the urgency of learning about him, he was gone. I never had the chance — or, to […]