Sasee Magazine

My husband Eric and I spent last week in Hawaii. Our children stayed at home with Grandma. We spent the week relaxing on some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. We drove around the island in a cute little convertible, a far-cry from the seven-passenger SUV I usually drive. We sipped drinks with [...]

I was too young to be astounded by the fact that Dad was taking me to the dance. If any of his submarine buddies from WWII or the guys from the maintenance shop at the mill, where he was the go-to guy for problems nobody else could solve, had known about it they would also [...]

I love lists. I need lists. I would not be able to function without lists. I can never figure out though, whether the reason I make so many is because, one, I am an organized genius, or two, my memory is shot. As I get older, my need to make lists is intensifying, as is [...]

“I have something for you,” my dad said, as he walked down the hallway towards his study. “I think you need it more than I do.” He returned with a written record of the last eleven months of my grandmother’s life. My grandmother, Granny, did not keep a diary. Aside from recipes, grocery lists and [...]

I won’t let her die alone because I’m afraid. That’s what I keep telling myself. But I am afraid. I’m afraid to watch my earliest protector, my most enduring support, my biggest fan, my best friend, my mother, suffer. I’ve been watching her disappear for so many years now, but during most of that time, [...]

Our house had been on the market for eight, long months, and I had given up hope of starting the New Year in a smaller abode in sunny North Carolina. It seemed inevitable that we would have to endure another snowy, New England winter. We couldn’t ditch the snow blower, the plow, or the assortment [...]

The fact that I still have – five decades later – the pillow I used as a child probably explains it all. The cover disintegrated years ago during a wash, but the guts of that pillow are the guts in a new throw pillow. No, I can’t let go of the past – and this [...]

How many childhood acquaintances can say they’ve been friends for 62 years? In today’s world of technology and transitions, it may be that memories of childhood will be quite different for present generations. With texting, email, Twitter, Facebook and Skype, friendship is just a click away. Yet there was a time when friendship blossomed between [...]

I love Christmas carols. I can’t carry a tune, but I keep my car radio tuned to the Christmas station during December and sing holiday music at the top of my lungs. One song in particular brings tears to my eyes no matter how often I hear it. The melody takes me back to Christmas [...]

Last June my husband surprised me with a gift that didn’t need to be unwrapped and that wasn’t even immediately useable, but filled me with so much anticipation that the remainder of the summer seemed to drag on forever. You see, he had quietly entered the Antiques Road Show random drawing for tickets for their [...]