INTRODUCE YOURSELF GBE Week 7
Hi, I'm Cherie. I've been blogging since MySpace in 200-- I don't remember because it was that long ago. I have always been a writer, being blessed to be born into an Irish family who loved to sit around the table telling stories. When I close my eyes I can still hear my grandfather's brogue as he made me my first cup of tea with lots of milk and sugar and helped me feel part of all the stories swirling around us. We lost him when I was 11, and he was approaching his 100th year. I still make my tea the very same way he taught me when I was 4 or 5. He was a very kind man and I grew up getting to know him through my aunts and my Mom's memories of how, when the depression hit and they were only allowed to buy so much food, my grandfather would spend it all buying food for the nuns and he would put it in a cloth bag and bring my Mom with him to hang it on the door, ring the bell, and leave. They shared because someone else was in need and made due with what the