Three months ago, a matriarch in her early seventies reluctantly agreed to leave her beloved routine and comfortable Chicago bungalow to move with her daughter and granddaughters to Washington D.C., where her son-in-law had just gotten a really good new job. Now, she has an active social life, full of dinners at the city's finest restaurants and entertainment at the Kennedy Center where, because of her son-in-law and his awesome job, she gets to meet and talk to famous people.
I love this piece that ran yesterday in the New York Times. It's the kind of fluff that tends to run on Sundays, but not that you'd expect to find in the Politics page. But it's here because Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama's mother, now lives in the White House. And she seems to really like it.
For the "first time in her adult life, [Robinson] no longer has to cook and clean, unless she wants to." And even though she was asked to come to D.C. to help take care of the Obama's two daughters, it seems that she doesn't have to do that if she doesn't want to either.
Marian Robinson is having fun. To her I can say only one thing: You go girl!
