h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Nanny Buffalo comes alive in your poem. I'd like to meet her.

H

I'd forgotten about this.
Thanks.
If you visit the retirement homes, you will find some like her, to hear them tell it.

Women used to have dreadful lives. Still do in many parts of the world. I'm glad they're improving in the West somewhat. One of my grandmothers had 10 children (all survived) and the other one had 11 - 7 of whom survived to adulthood. Both had difficult lives, trying to raise families during the depession.

I've met older women who remind me of Nanny Buffalo. I think that the hard exterior and the bluster is a coping mechanism.

Anyway, it's a good poem. Thanks for sharing it with us.

H

My greatgrandmother on my mother's mother's side pumped out 13 units, 11 of which survived into adulthood. She lived to be 103 and outsurvived all but six of them.
My grandma was the third or fourth next to youngest and her youngest brother was born when she was 19!
Family legend has it that she eloped with my grandpa to avoid being nanny to her own kin.
She ended up dying in her early seventies, from cancers.