How can I write just one memory? I was blessed to live a hop, skip and jump away from her my whole childhood. Within minutes, I could be her shadow, usually finding that other little shadows were also keeping granny company for the day. She never let on that 1 or 10 of us was too much to handle. Boy was grandma a kidder, until the end. Her cackle; I'll never forget that cackle. As I moved on, I always looked forward to her calls. "Now say!" she would start off every conversation. We'd laugh. That's also how she would start getting after us as kids. "Now say! You kids get down from there!" As her health declined, we couldn't talk on the phone. That was hard. We all could write a book about the lady with 9 lives. "Now say! You be good up there granny!"