Sasee Magazine

Okay, okay, I am finally on facebook. I was not inclined to join, but I was shamed into it by my two-year-old grandson. No, he has not been allowed to sign up quite yet. He can’t work the keypad properly, though he does pretend to. Here is how it happened. This tiny kid, who until [...]

On September 1, at the tender age of 59, I found myself in Venice Beach, California, taking a surfing lesson. Lauren Wells, a 20-year-old surfer, promised she could get me up on a board in one day. I really wanted to surf before I turned 60. The lesson began at 8 am sharp. We stood [...]

I don’t like wine. Okay. There, I’ve said it. In public. To the masses. I only like to go to a wine bar if it is with a person who is whining. That way, I can offer some cheese and eat some myself. I am opposite of a wine snob. If someone asks me what [...]

I don’t think it ever occurs to any mother who first lays eyes on her newborn how short a time she will really have with him or her. Our bloated bellies and swollen ankles become forgotten memories when we see the pink bundle with fuzzy hair screaming and kicking and capturing our hearts. We ooh [...]

Someone was in my house last night. I heard the high-pitched beep of the laundry room door sensor and heavy footsteps on the linoleum. My husband, Craig, was asleep upstairs, and I was on the couch with the dog. I could tell the intruder was approaching the living room, leaving me no way to exit [...]

In my younger adult days, I never wanted to be alone. For me, solitude was synonymous with loneliness. Back then being with friends, family and even strangers nourished me, gave me a sense of worth, or as Abraham Maslow labeled it: a sense of belonging. Smack in the middle of his Hierarchy of Needs theory; [...]

I am waiting for the boy to ask me to dance. My feelings are controlled and determined by junior high school-aged boys. The best jitterbugger never asks me. My high school years will bring me popularity in dating older boys. But this is middle school years in the fifties, and my pride is in the [...]

We want to believe that people tell the truth. What we find sometimes is that some people embellish or twist the facts in such a way as to make us believe an untruth. When I was a sophomore in high school, I was shocked to discover that my closest girlfriend had a date with my [...]

Isn’t it ironic that the word exercise, exertion made for the sake of training or physical fitness, can also be defined as a public exhibition or ceremony? Exercise is becoming more and more public. Health clubs abound and attract both the fit and unfit, offering high-tech equipment in place of home-rigged gear. We abandon our [...]

I remember as a little girl how I loved to color. I filled countless coloring books with vivid purple scratches, blue scribbles and yellow patches. The black lines on the pre-printed illustrations didn’t hold me back. I colored wherever my waxy, colored crayon wanted to go, and that was almost everywhere, including outside the lines. [...]