My Memaw passed away and I love her very very much.
Growing up with friends primarily in the Midwest, I didn’t
hear a lot of people call their grandmother “Memaw,” which is by all accounts a
silly word. Memaw’s real name was JoJean which is also a silly name. In her world
Target was Tar-Je, Jezebel was Jezzie, my friend Pedro was Paco/Pancho/Padre
and Buca di Beppo was never called the same name twice. She kept trying to get
Benedict Cumberbatch’s name right, even to the point where she called me to say
she tried to study his name in People.
