Sasee Magazine

I am not a meddler, but now that I am an expectant grandmother I am about to give unsolicited advice to my daughter-in-law. I believe that I can talk the talk because I walked the walk with the father-to-be. The new parents haven’t an inkling as to how dramatically their lives will change after the [...]

A cute little toddler walked over to my mom at the pool and struck up a conversation with her.
“These your trucks?” he asked.
“Nope. They’re not mine,” Mom said.
He snatched up the tiny Tonkas, smiled at my mom and jumped back in the pool.
Moments later, that same dear little child approached me in the shallow end. [...]

A couple wants to host a dinner party for friends. They discover that one of the wives is a vegetarian, at which point they decide they have four choices: One, cook a separate meal for the veg-head; two, re-do the menu and make the entire meal vegetarian; three, pretend they didn’t know, or forgot, and [...]

Every time I drove by it, I promised to stop next time and get a photo; it was so beautiful to me. What was it? It was a tree. A tree rooted along a small stream next to a road I travelled almost every day. Its gracefulness amazed me each and every time I passed [...]

I often say my grandmother was the original recycler. Even before the days of recycling bins for soda cans, my grandmother could find uses for things that others simply threw away. She was a recycler before people were attempting green living and discussing sustainability. She recycled before people were “Saving the Earth.” She was a [...]

Before this summer, I had memory of only three times in my life when I felt absolutely at peace. I mean that complete warming of the soul, a calming of every nerve, like the body and the mind are so connected to the moment that you just feel right as rain. Thinking back, I realize [...]

My obstetrician snapped off the rubber glove she’d worn to check my progress. I waited on baited breath for her to utter any words involving dilation, effacement or anything else potentially pregnancy-ending.
“You should be losing your mucus plug any time now,” my doctor said with a small smile.
“Mucus plug? Ooh, what is that?” I said [...]

I took my first steps holding a basketball-sized kid’s play ball, the plastic kind you buy at the supermarket. It was painted with a picture of Grover from Sesame Street, my favorite TV show character at the time. We called it my “Magic Grover Ball” because I didn’t think I could walk unless I was [...]

I recently put my cell-phone charger in a “safe place.” It was during our last move and I knew my fully-charged phone would last until the new house. The safe place is a spot that exists in every home, similar to the Bermuda Triangle. Growing up, my Mom was forever putting stuff there – most [...]

Within a few weeks of my husband’s death, I dyed my blonde hair deep auburn. I was in such a blur of confusion and denial; my life felt like it was spiraling downward. It felt like everything was slipping through my fingers; my hair, however, was still something I felt I could control. To say [...]