my name is robin marcus and i am just thrilled to be interviewing or actually having had a conversation with larine kerry and she's a writer, a mother, an educator, an organizer. she wears many hats and more than ten years ago she wore the lady sitting hat, that's the title of her book, it came out and congratulations on the publishing of a new book. [applaus [applause]. so in lady sitting, her grandmother moves in and everything changes. day-to-day life, family relationships, the man that she knew, even their shared past. as a child, she had a classic memoir black ice, spent the weekends with her grandmother who spoiled her. and now it's her turn, 100 years old and in her home. kerry knew there might be reckonings to come. she was a force, managed a rental property and real estate business. and maintained her independence. her stubbornness completely got a license to talk about her husband and talk about that later. and carrying on a fut with the normalcy in bought twirps between mothers and mothers, mers and daughter. which she could be voted to her father, to black craand there we te