April 7, 2009

First Grandma’s Essence Interview

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Best Nana ever? That would be Michelle’s mama, Marian Robinson.

First Nana and First Lady grace this month’s Essence and ‘Big Mama’ just gets cooler and cooler. There’s just too much good stuff to cut and paste; check the link for the full story. My fave? The First Grandma plans to evacuate the WH with a quickness, once the kiddies are all settled. Why? “I love those people, but I love my own house. The White House reminds me of a museum and it’s like, how do you sleep in a museum?”

“Those people”? Rock on, Nana. She does yoga. She thinks her own daughter is too strict. She’s ready to get back to her own life after tending to her grandkids while her ‘other kids’ do their own thing, White House be damned.

I say: let’s bring Nana Robinson to Burning Man this year!

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