It’s time!!!!! Let’s dive in together!  I’m GG.. good girl, got guts, girly grit… I’m Gregarious GRACE!  I can promise some things :  you will not be bored reading my blog; you will have your mind boggled ; you will feel better about yourself as you chuckle through my writings; you will definitely question my sanity, and perhaps your own… but in a good and productive way… it will be fun!  Let’s go!!!

      My great Auntie Mary was my hero… heroine?  Whatever, I have no patience AT ALL for PC words (after all, isn’t that all they are, just stupid words?  Who cares)?? Anyway, I am her NOW.  She’s been over the human rainbow bridge for decades.  (That means she’s dead.  Passed on.  In Heaven. Gone). But oh, that memory and spirit lives on.  Great Aunt Mary was a woman with a career in the 1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, until she passed away in her 70’s of a sudden stroke.  She never married, made to break an engagement due to the young man ‘not being good enough for her’ (according to her family’s standards), and made a career for herself at a large department store downtown in her southern town.  She mesmerized all of her nieces with elaborate Christmas gifts from King’s (might as well been Macy’s to us little girlies).  We received the newest, grandest, talking, walking, sometimes life size dolls of the 50’s and 60’s (google it, youngsters:) in elaborate Kings Department Store gift wrap.  We were babies she never had and she was our doting one and only Auntie Mary… single, fur-wearing, red lipstick wearing fairy godmother Auntie.  When she was having her fatal stroke, she darted for her Hollywood Red lipstick before the ambulance arrived… yeah… she got it on, a little crooked, but not too badly for a dying woman of pride, strength, and most of all, wit.  Her last words were, “wait, if I’m dying I need to look my best!”

     Thats what’s you’re in for… ready for some (often irreverent, but much needed in life) wit and yes, grace??  Saddle up, the fun is just beginning……. 

Yours,

~GG