04/30/2026
Today I made SURE we got a photo together, since I failed to do so on Sunday for my outing with Ms. Miriam, and as I was helping to cover for a traveling granddaughter I even set a photo alarm… 🥰
This 96-year old teeny can of sass and whoop-ass is as fun to hang out with as she is inspirational and educational.
Born during the Great Depression, she was a teen living in an all-girls Catholic orphanage in Brooklyn during all of World War II. Released with a small bag of her things from the only home she’d known for 5 years on her 18th birthday, she’s worked her butt off since.
She worked her way up the corporate ladder as much as a woman could through the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, raising her daughter and two granddaughters (which brought her to Austin from NYC in 1979), always working jobs with a pension and benefits, always positioning herself for the future… outliving 3 husbands and a partner and, now, often, wondering “why the heck am I still here?!?” (I tell her it’s because we need her vote!)
She’s understandably tired by life itself but it just angers me how much our current events upset her - as they should, as she was THERE as laws and protections for women, people of color and children were written and today they are being threatened or overturned by this seditious, corrupt “government” of ours. I’m just glad she’s not on social media to see how many quasi-Americans who claim to love freedom are cheering it all on … even though they are the shrinking minority.
Anyway. 😊. She had the shrimp fried rice and I had a veggie stir fry and I helped her finish a puzzle that had her stumped after knocking out her list at H-E-B. Until Sunday…
