The Potty Mouth Granny

  • Read!!!!

    If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say? Read More Books Ninnies!!! Because reading comprehension skills in this country are in the gutter and people will believe anything.

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  • What skills or lessons have you learned recently? The biggest lesson I’ve learned is to stop beating myself up mentally. Last week, I had the pleasure of seeing two of my children graduate from college two days apart. My eldest daughter graduated from college back in 2011, and now all three of my children are…

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  • The Main Reason Why America Ain’t Shit

    So today, I was denied once again by disability who determined that I can work. Despite losing some cognitive function due to the medication I take for epilepsy, despite being diagnosed with anxiety, and osteoarthritis, despite being diagnosed with cataracts, and despite being 54 years old and living in a society that has contempt for…

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  • What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why? The decision to sign the DNR paper for my mother. My mother was very ill towards the end of her life, and her doctors kept trying to get me to sign the paper but I couldn’t do it because she was my mother. The first…

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  • I Wonder

    As the season changes from fall to winter, I’m sitting here thinking as usual and listening to music. As the song ‘That Girl’ by Stevie Wonder is playing, and I’m thinking about my Aunt Mary who died the same year when this song was released. And my other matriarchs. I wonder if they are proud…

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  • The Art of Self Absorption

    What principles define how you live? The principles that define how I live my life are minding my own business, treating others with respect and dignity, and being self absorbed. Now some people think that being self absorbed is a bad thing but it’s really not. When you are self absorbed in a healthy manner,…

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  • Life

    Tell us about a time when you felt out of place. I’ve always felt out of place in this weird world. From childhood until now. I’ve been loved and is still loved but still feel alone. It’s a weird feeling that’s hard to explain.

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  • Dream Jobs

    List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter. Oh what would I be if I didn’t need money? A teacher. Although depending on the city, teachers can make a decent amount of money, it’s still not enough for me. I would love to teach the babies but I need money for survival. A…

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  • Grief, Energy, and Coping

    Facebook memories can be a very painful experience. A picture of my brother Randy that I had posted two years ago popped up while I was sitting down thinking about how I have outlived my entire childhood family. Literally everyone with whom I had formed my earliest memories with has crossed over and it’s a…

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  • What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in? The aspects of my cultural heritage that I’m most proud of are oral history and the ability to turn a shack into a home. I come from a long line of female griots who told the history of our family and…

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