Women of Varying Ambition

One of my grandmothers is a saint. The other, well she is a character to say the least. In her mid-80s she is still platinum blonde, she'll be the first person to tell you that her eyebrows are tattooed on (permanent makeup) and she still asks me if I need to tinkle before I leave the house. I'm 25. I think she could probably get by without asking.

To this grandmother, however, I am a worry. 25 and not married? When I was 18-20 she would scope out every new boyfriend carefully, and I think she cried over more of the break ups than I ever did. By the time I hit 21, however, she was starting to get worried that I would never get married so she took action. Every gift I've gotten from her since has had something to do with landing and/or keeping a man. Everything from the silky nightgowns to the electric mixer (after all, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach).

She gave up on me entirely last year when, at 24, I graduated law school. She views the fact that I'm a lawyer as my mother's fault because Mama (another lawyer) has always been rather uppity herself. I love my grandmother, but somehow the sexual revolution managed to skip her completely (she was probably in the kitchen). Sometimes I wonder if she's heard yet that we finally got the vote.