grandmother

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My grandmother positions a chair in front of the windows of our sunroom, which look out onto the neighboring hills dotted with bungalows, Tuscan pines and tall palm trees.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

My grandmother and my father, though they disliked each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Puelm said he wished he had known earlier and been able to "ask more questions" of his grandmother before her death.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

“It somehow felt like it was upper-class,” Nana, my paternal grandmother, recently told me.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

“No, she’s not,” I sign back, wide-eyed as I watch my grandmother attacking a folk hero from Ghanaian mythology.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer