Family: Surprise Visit from Grandmama Fay

A day and a half before we were to vacate the Jim Thorpe offices so that The Blogger could go to Jamaica to report a story and the Lovely Sophia and child could go to New York to pass the week with Auntie Marcel (Hon.), we got a call from Grandmama Fay in North Carolina saying that she had bought a ticket and was boarding a Greyhound bus to come introduce herself to her grandson. She is a woman of magnificent energy and great resolve; as she later explained, she had awakened that morning with the desire to come see Stillman, and you could have offered her a million dollars not to come and she would have refused it. So she did 12 or 14 or some similarly ungodly number of hours on the bus and stayed here for less than 24 hours, then turned around and did the long ride home.

But it was wonderful to have her here, and for her to get to meet Stillman. While TLS and Stillman were in New York, they got to visit Uncle Johnny, Grandpa Tooly and "Mama" (Stillman's great-grandmother) -- which means everyone in TLS's immediate family has got to meet Stillman now.