Tomorrow would be my Grandmother's 97th birthday... I miss her.
She was born in 1919, 10th of 10 children, Helen Elizabeth Sayre in Columbus, OH. I have to say I didn't know a lot about her but the things I did know are that she was an artist, she had been a nurse before my mother was born, and while she was away in college, her mother died of pneumonia and her boyfriend died. She liked football.... I never expected that, I found out a few years ago.
I remember staying with her when I was young, I'd go exploring through the woods behind her house... I'd be gone all day. She had a big bell she'd ring if I wasn't home by dark, and we'd sit around the dinner table, Grandma, Grandpa and me.

Grandpa would go to bed early and Grandma and I would stay up on Saturday night and watch TV together, after the Muppet Show, we'd watch The Carol Burnett Show and The Love Boat and Fantasy Island. We'd stay up and eat popcorn and laugh. When it was time for bed, we'd go downstairs and she'd go in her art room and work on a painting, she was always working on something. I am fortunate enough to have several of her paintings gracing my walls.