happy birthday, grandma!

It's my grandmother's birthday, today. She's 76. I think. Maybe 75. She doesn't look it. She looks a good 10 or 15 years younger. The women in my family tend to live twice as long as the men do. I hope I've got her genes. She's still pretty active - she does her own housework, volunteers at church and at the Red Cross, goes on bus tours, takes trips to Europe, has lunch with her friends, reads. I wonder if it's that cocktail of vitamins and medications that she takes in the morning. It could be attitude, too. She has strong beliefs and opinions about everything. She's been through a lot, and I can only assume that it's made her more resilient. I'll tell you why I adore her: when my parents divorced, she came to see us, and said that she wasn't so much worried about my parents as she was about me and my sister. She wanted to know how WE were holding up. THAT is a cool grandmother.