Grandma Marian: Browse The Strips

Monday May 3, 2021

Lynn's Comments: I've spent a great deal of time now visiting my aunt in a senior's residence, and it's clear to me that when you are ready to have a small, secure home with medical help and regular prepared meals, you are definitely ready! The one thing my aunt is saddened by is the strangeness of being surrounded by very old people all the time! The only young people are staff members and visitors. When I take her into town for a change of scene, she will say, "This is normal! Everyone is here...young, old, and in between!"

Friday July 23, 2021

Lynn's Comments: My parents never did sell their house and move to a smaller place. By the time they were thinking of this, Mom was too sick to move and Dad wanted her to stay in their old, familiar surroundings. What happened in the strip is what should have happened; how their last years should have been. I was able to hold onto both of them just a little longer in my make-believe comic strip world.

Thursday July 29, 2021

Lynn's Comments: Talking about favourite places in and around Vancouver was a lot of fun. I'd been told by editors that I shouldn't be "too Canadian" because the majority of my readers were American. Still, I went ahead because this is what I know! The result was a series of letters from readers talking about where they had been in BC and what they liked best about the scenery, the coast and the culture.

Saturday July 31, 2021

Lynn's Comments: When I was around 30, I asked my mother, "When can you say you have truly grown up?" She replied, "Never." When her dad died, she looked up from writing the obituary and said, "I'm an orphan, now." She was over 65.

Friday December 10, 2021

Lynn's Comments: My grandfather used to say the longest grace when we were all sitting in front of a holiday meal—hungry and desperate to begin. Because he never went to church and rarely talked about the bible, we were sure he did it for the fun of making us wait.

Monday January 3, 2022

Lynn's Comments: Being a comic strip "creator" gave me the awful advantage of being able to steer these characters in any direction I wanted them to go. I often wondered if, in the greater scheme of things, someone "up there" had that same control over us!

Thursday December 22, 2022

Lynn's Comments: I remember my grandmother explaining to my mother how much molasses to put into a batch of cookies: it was "two golollups and a drip." If the bottle we used was the same size each time, it was a perfect measurement!

Saturday December 24, 2022

Lynn's Comments: My dad did this. He would pop his teeth out and make faces. It drove my mom crazy. At work, he'd keep his teeth in his breast pocket. One day, he fell against the counter when a customer came into his shop and he accidentally "bit himself" on the chest. We laughed about this for weeks.

Thursday January 5, 2023

Lynn's Comments: When I was researching wheelchair living, I was told that anyone who used someone's wheelchair as a carry-all was insulting the occupant of the wheelchair. Can someone out there tell us more about "wheelchair etiquette?"