Grandmothers

Make room, Emma Stone. Step aside, Colman Domingo. Two endearing, fun-loving grandmas from Fremont — 86-year-old Chang Li Hua and 97-year-old Yi Yan Fuei — could well upstage you and any other celeb hitting the red carpet this Sunday as part of the 96th Academy Awards. Already, this formidable dynamic duo have won the hearts of the many who’ve watched them horsing around and going about their daily business in the Academy Awards-nominated documentary short, “Nǎi Naii & Wài Pó,” streaming now on Disney+. The…

In 2014, the bodies of nearly 800 babies and small children were found in the septic tank of a former mother and baby home in Tuam, Galway. They had been deposited over four decades, a practice that only ended in 1961. This grisly discovery, made by a local historian, forced a long overdue public reckoning in Ireland.Why was it considered necessary, by individual families as well as the Catholic church and the Irish state, to place unmarried pregnant girls in brutal institutions, to subject their babies to coerced…

Missing Persons must have been a very difficult book to write, for certainly it is difficult to read. This is not due to any defects of style or execution – it is an expertly crafted work, at once vigorous and subtle, which manages its effects and conserves its revelations with all the skill of a master novelist. The difficulty for the reader is in struggling to absorb the pain and pity of the story, or stories, which it relates.All families nurse guilty secrets, secret sorrows, as Clair Wills more than once acknowledges.…

When my French grandmother died a few years ago, I holed myself up in her bathroom. I took one of her many lipsticks from the makeup cabinet, studied its half-used red nub, and found myself instantly transported back in time. Back to all the mornings on which I stood next to her, wide-eyed and wondering, as she applied the colour to her narrow lips. I thought of her, but also of her friends, her neighbours, the French women of her generation. Of a particular idea of womanhood. At that time, few women left the house…

When ‘Star-Lord’ Chris Pratt Admitted Being A Stripper & Performed At His Friends Grandmother’s Birthday Party Before Becoming Famous, “I Loved Always To Get N*ked” ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia ) American actor Chris Pratt is one of Hollywood’s most loved stars. His performance as Andy Dwyer from Parks and Recreation & Star-Lord in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was widely appreciated and is quite well known now. With the popular roles, he has established himself as one of the leading actors in the entertainment…

Over his postseason career, LeBron James has never struggled against the Atlanta Hawks, beating the team all three times he faced them while suiting up for the Cleveland Cavs.During a recent interview, T.I. shed light on how LeBron won him over during one of the Cavs’ NBA playoff series vs. the Hawks.“I’ma always be a LeBron James fan, and I’ma tell you why,” T.I. shared in the clip below. “The last Mother’s Day my grandmama was alive, LeBron came to my grandmama house and sat on my front porch, right on Bankhead, ate…

The arms race between the human immune system and gonorrhea might have had the useful side effect of promoting healthy brain tissue later in life.This tiny boost to cognitive health in our twilight years might have played a small role in ensuring grandmas were sharp-minded enough for evolution to keep them around.  While it's fiendishly difficult – and may be impossible – to figure out what evolutionary factors are responsible for living beyond ages where we no longer reproduce, researchers at the University of…