Life in the Slow Lane?

What did you have to eat, Agnes...

If you are not a member of my family on the maternal side no one would understand the sentence, “What did you have to eat Agnes?” Agnes Dorsey was my great grandmother. She had been a farm wife and a home economics teacher. She was also the first member of our family that I am aware of who had diabetes.

I have some memories of visiting her, both while she was living with my grandmother and after sh…