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Be a Badass in Every Season! A tribute to my Grandma McLeese

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Recently I came across a conversation on Facebook between two women I met in college whom I’ve always admired and found inspiring. One of them had recently made a life-changing career move, and they were discussing how important it is to be a badass in every season of life . I chuckled when I read it, but I knew what they meant. I began to think of my grandma who had recently fallen, broken her hip, and suffered several mini strokes and a heart attack. I thought about her life and how badass she was in every season. I hope you don’t think it vulgar or flippant of me to call my grandma a Badass. Let me explain: Grandma McLeese was not the kind of grandma who would bake cookies when we came over or give us warm, fuzzy hugs (very often). She was a Registered Nurse, and a woman who made things happen. My Grandma was a Woman of Action.  She was born in 1929, and the stock market crashed later that year. She grew up in the Great Depression on a farm in central Illinois near