General Princess Grandmother

Her lineage runs from the novels of Haldoor Laxness to the front door of The Original Pancake House in Salt Lake City.

She’s as real as a character in a cartoon and as fictional as time in the Age of Anxiety.

All rivers in the Northern Hemisphere run through her.

She’s the boss who despises slavery, the first successful Socialist CFO in human history, a big champion of the little people, especially her 3-year old granddaughter who cries and stamps her feet when General Princess Grandmother takes away the candy, explaining calmly in the midst of chaos that it’s for her granddaughter’s own good.

Architectural genius, master potter, devoted reader of books that propose an actual future for mankind, long-suffering wife who has only rolled her eyes once or twice at the inanities uttered by her feckless husband, she is the General Princess Grandmother— a legend made of her very own clay; and if not quite a likeness adored and worshipped by all who know her, then by almost all.

General Princess Grandmother (left) with an unidentified admirer, April 4, 2021 (Easter Sunday) sharing pictures she’d taken earlier of The Great Salt Lake Easter Egg Hunt and the First Annual Backyard Tie-Dye T-Shirt Festival.