For Mary Jane

The Sunday Dreads Vol. 11

I should have asked you questions,

I should have asked you how to be.

Asked you to write it down for me.

-Taylor Swift, Marjorie

My grandmother Mary Jane was an artist, but she didn’t know that until the second half of her life, when her husband and the father of her nine surviving children (also known as my Grandpa Bill) died suddenly of a stroke or maybe …