Grandma lived most of her life in an outlying suburb of Rhylanor downport. She was variously employed as an executive secretary, research aide, reference librarian and government clerk. Ten years of her employment as a secretary were with a temporary service, which she enjoyed because she got to meet new people and learn new businesses. Her hobbies include knitting, reading mysteries, baking cookies and gravball (as a spectator). Her abiding fascination has always been people though. She spends hours listening to anyone and everyone. This made her sitting room a favorite spot with children and adults for at least 40 years. Grandma secretly keeps a computerized "farley file" to keep up to date on the thousands of people she's met; she prefers to think of it as a memory aid. She'd keep it all in her brain if she could. As Grandma was forced to "retire" and moved to Regina, she was inwardly railing at the ideas of age and fixed pensions, when she met Frank. Frank was about 13 years old and an orphan. And no one has ever seen a smaller tight fisted punk swagger more than he did. That was until he met Grandma. He had the gall to try and snatch her purse. Not only did she pull him up with a jerk literally, but also fuguratively. Once her bony fingers connected with his ear lobe the reformation of Frank's character began. Grandma, who insists on referring to him by his Christian name of Francis, is the only person allowed to refer to him as such. She also fed Frank cookies and love, thus acquiring his life long devotion to her. Over the years, Frank has been Grandma's guide to the other side of the law. Frank taught her how to pick locks and shoot a snub pistol. He insisted that she carry the gun, but she dislikes them, so it was usually found unloaded at the bottom of her knitting bag. Her wide acquaintance led to interesting schemes, and a Christmas Card list that runs to 4,000 names. One of Grandma's first new hobbies was jewel theft; she amassed quite a collection, which she pried from their settings. They were then baked into a cookie batch for safe keeping. She later served as the curator for the precious gem collection for the planet Bob (spending 6 months a year there for three years.) She also became the head coach of the Regina Rottweillers grav ball team, where she coached for five years (the team saw a steady improvement under her guidance). She was also extremely well known in the underworld for mailing her friends care packages of cookies while they were doing their jail time. Although she lived in old port and walked everywhere unescorted, she was never bothered. She was a member of the Jasmine Club and frequently shared Jurian Mist tea with Mercer Black there. She was also a regular customer at the Laughing Cadaver where she shared Tabasco Jack's table. For a very long time, she also shared his bed. One adventure left her with a glowing rune on her right thumb. If you can read such runes, it says "Personification of Death to Enemies". She was known to say: "A true lady can be neither shocked nor surprised", and "The only thing that I shall want for a rainy day will be an umbrella." Much to the shock of her friends, in 1118, Grandma gave away all her possessions and entered a Trappist Convent. She took her final vows as a nun in 1119. Through arrangements made prior to her departure from Regina, care packages of cookies continue to arrive at certain offices and jail cells on Regina. The Convent has been under occasional surveillance by men in suits, no one is sure why.