Editor’s note: Here is the second week of the Ask Grandpa column without Grandpa since the death of conductor of this column. Last week we ran several items which did not make it in the previous 503 columns by the person who requested to keep an identity from public view. The following communication was received from a subscriber and a reader of Ask Grandpa. Following that person’s letter we have selected a partial previous October column to be included this week.
Oh, my! How stunning, astonishing, yet how natural it is to learn next to nothing, yet everything about the unique person who led The Voice’s “Ask Grandpa” column!
The especial feature is surely the reason for my piquing my interest in subscribing, after finding free copies in Culver’s, e.g.. I would purchase the subscription with birthday money from my sister.
“Ask Grandpa” was, and could be still, a voice of reason and sanity in our world. Wouldn’t television news be wiser if there were such a reporter to read these pieces of advice and empathy instead of scaring us with exciting, breaking, news?
Please consider reprinting past columns….until time ends ! And/or, if a team has been working on this feature, please ask the team to carry on, maybe with one fresh response and one or more reviews from the column’s past 503.
Please, Mr. Carter Crane, could you still continue to honor the “Ask Grandpa” tradition of publishing a fresh Thanksgiving blessings list for 2021, if even belatedly? Twice, of my three attempted RSVPs, had been held over until the following January, and what are the odds!? It was a privilege just to be especially included.
Thank you, thank you, again, for the wisdom to have used the “Ask Grandpa” column in your publication.
Happy Sweetest Day, Sir. (I had intended to end this over-sharing with just that. But, coincidentally, my husband just passed through and wished me that very wish without the sir, which holidate I had temporarily forgotten, having already sent ahead, to one grandson, a celebratory card for the third Saturday holidate this week. Yet, today, I’m just feeling as if it were a Sunday morning….I accidentally put out his Veterans Day flag, from the last Naperville display.
Editor’s note: Here is one of the two items from the October 22, 2020 Ask Grandpa, including the request at the end for the annual Gratitude Column which will run in the November 18 edition if we receive notes of gratitude. Please indicate if you would like to be identified, or, have your names left out of the column.
Grandpa,
With my second DUI, I lost my driving privileges forever. I need to hold down a job and support my wife and family. I have tried to quit drinking. I cannot because of the stress I am under. My stress comes from the fact that my wife is bipolar and addicted to pain medications. She won’t go get help. If she would, it would be easy for me to give up the liquor. I don’t get so drunk as to be dysfunctional at work, just enough to take the edge off of the stress. With her addiction, she gets moody and refuses to drive me to work and back. I have to pay friends to take me. Well, another one has just let me know that he will no longer take me because of what he calls my issues. I am tired of being the victim of my wife’s attitude.
Grandpa says: There is little anyone can do for you that will please you. You use people. You are the only one who creates the hardships in your life, and until you see that, you never will be more than a substance- and person-abuser. Grow up; man up.
Grandpa says: Every Autumn I ask my readers to reflect on what is in their lives for which they are thankful. This year we will publish Thanksgiving Gratitude letters November 18, one week prior to Thanksgiving Day. In order to have your letter included in the Gratitude Column, please have your letters to Ask Grandpa by November 8.