The Potty Mouth Granny

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.

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…

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…

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,…

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.

List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter. Oh what would I be if I didn’t need money?

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…

What would your life be like without music? My life would be a dull place without music. I’ve been in a funk since the death of R&B music legend, Frankie Beverly was announced last week because his music was literally the soundtrack of my life and I can’t believe he’s really gone. With his passing,…

What are you doing this evening? What am I doing this evening? Nothing but watching the presidential debate and existing.

What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world? The change I would like my blog to make in the world is to expose people to a different perspective of life. In our current society, people are expected to think the same, behave the same. Conform or die but…