My grandmother Mary Nantes (“Nanny”) died in 2018 at the age of 98. Her last name is now my middle name (Nantes). Yesterday, CBC Radio on PEI aired some archived interviews with her about life in the 1930s and 1940s.

It’s nice to hear her voice again, and interesting to hear how she and her nine siblings would write letters to Santa Clause, and burn them in the wood stove (so they’d go up the chimney – makes perfect sense).