Gaffgirl

As a child, strong women surrounded me; my maternal grandmother raised two young girls on her own nine months out of the year as my grandfather sailed the Great Lakes. Likewise, my mother also raised two small children, as my father was sick for what seemed to be forever. Two women, four children, different time periods and two men on the back burner; two women playing the role of both mother and father while still trying to maintain their femininity through roles they adopted. My grandmother was the head of the house during my grandfather's journeys, and when the Captain came home they slipped back into these predetermined roles set in plac