{"id":2906,"date":"2020-12-03T10:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T18:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:32:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:32:38","slug":"bright-things-7-grannys-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/?p=2906","title":{"rendered":"Bright Things #7: Granny’s Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the themes of The Memory Collectors<\/a> is our relationship to physical objects \u2014 the memories, emotions, and power they hold for us. Every week leading up to the book\u2019s release, I\u2019ll share the story of an object that\u2019s special to me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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I can’t remember when my grandmother gave this to me, but she passed away in 1999, and it’s lived in the junk drawer of a dozen homes, so it was a while ago. This isn’t a valuable object. I think Granny got it for free with her Reader’s Digest subscription.<\/div>\n
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I have more beautiful and more meaningful mementos of her, but this calculator is something I use almost daily, especially now that I’m working from home (finance is a big part of my day job). Sure, I could’ve brought my proper accounting calculator home from the office, but does my work calculator have bejeweled buttons that make a loud and satisfying clackety sound when you hit them? (It does not.)<\/div>\n
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Granny was a school principal and a teacher. Fun fact! Granny grew up in Iowa and lived in the Canadian prairies before she made it to BC, where I was eventually born. In the 1930s, she was principal of the same small-town Saskatchewan elementary school that my future husband would attend in the 1980s. Anyway, chances were good that if you went to visit Granny, you’d get a math lesson at some point, and since Granny lived in a suite on the second floor of our house, I got a lot of math lessons. She wouldn’t have let me use a calculator back then but for me, numbers and Granny go hand in hand, and this old gadget with its flashy buttons (she was also a sucker for shiny things) keeps her memory close.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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