The Christian Science Monitor, April 25th, 2008
Byline: Gaydell Collier
My grandparents, Nana and Pappy, lived on the top floor of a six-story apartment building in Flushing, N.Y. For years when I was a child, I stayed with them two glorious weeks each summer.
During the day, Nana and I cooked or shopped, or I played with the little wooden block village kept for me in a bottom drawer.
When Nana did laundry in the basement, we rode the elevator back to the sixth floor, then carried the basket up a flight of stairs to the roof, where clotheslines stretched in open air. The black-tarred walls were higher than I - a barrier broken only by ...
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