"To read Child of My Child is to come to a deeper realization of the meaning of being a grandparent, and a parent, and a child. Maybe at some level that's what all literature is about."
-Susan Adcox, About.com
-Susan Adcox, About.com
Contributor Barbara Crooker cited in Chicago Tribune's Garrison Keillor update
There's no telling how information is going to travel on the Internet . . . Child of My Child contributor Barbara Crooker has been featured 18 times on The Writer's Almanac, so this piece got picked up as part of a Garrison Keillor update . . .
After a visit with our grandchild this week-end (my step grandchild, see my essay in CHILD OF MY CHILD) I understood the difference between the connection of a birth grandparent and a "step" grandparent to the child. Different but in a good way.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's just me who feels this way because I'm so attuned to the subject of grand parenting at the moment.
I am wondering how other steps feel about this, those who came into the child's life when she was born, as I did, and those who entered the child's life when she had been around for a few years.