Donna Arthur Downs is an associate professor and co-chair of the Media Communication department at Taylor University. She has been full-time teaching various writing, public relations and media courses since 2001 and advises the award-winning student newspaper, The Echo. She is the mother of two faithful sons and the grandmother of two remarkable grandchildren. Downs graduated with an Ed.D from Ball State University.
You old, Grandma?
Friday night as I
lay beside my baby girl on the air mattress at the foot of the bed in
her little room upstairs, deep in thought, she began picking at my hair
with her thumb and index finger, pulling
it up, letting it go, pulling it up, letting it go strand by strand.
