And I wondered,

Yesterday the smoke detector in our apartment started chirping that terrible chirp that you can’t ignore, and saying in a woman’s voice “low battery.” “Chirp. Low battery.” “Chirp. Low battery.” My husband replaced the batteries and she kept chirping and asking for a battery. He pushed buttons to reset it, which resulted in squawking, something … More And I wondered,

Grandma

I wrote this homage a few years ago, prompted by a picture I took that’s mentioned in the story.  Sadly, I can’t locate the picture now.  I originally published this in 2011 in another blog called FromBetween.