Sasee Magazine

I was talking to another writer recently when we began discussing what gets our creative juices flowing. The choices would seem obvious: a beautiful nature scene – say, a rainbow after a summer shower, mellow music that you play over and over until your mind replays it over and over without the CD (ack!), mastering [...]

The incident plays out in my mind beyond its actual running time, like the time-stretched close-ups of guilty-until-proven-innocent suspects walking to the courthouse on Nancy Grace. It started in the parking lot that runs in front of the Super-1, past a Fred’s Drugstore and a Wal-Mart, and on to the Winn-Dixie, the major shopping district [...]

Healthy living inspires me – that’s why I read about it so much – to soothe my guilt. I have tried to change my habits, but it rarely lasts. One stumbling block always gets in the way: The good life is more appealing. I tried “intuitive eating” which is only eating what our body needs. [...]

Like most junkies, I didn’t think I was the one with the problem. My mom has been saving things for possible “craft projects” for years: margarine tub lids (for Christmas ornaments), socks with holes in them (for faux painting), broken dishes (for mosaics). Her latest gift to me was an old canning jar filled with [...]

In hindsight, I recognize many milestones in my life, but at the time they were happening, I viewed each event as a natural progression through life – high school graduation, marriage, childbirth, my daughters’ graduations and their weddings. However, when I decided to divorce my husband of twenty-five years, I knew this was not a [...]

The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that, for the first time in U.S. history, traditional married households are now the minority. Sssh! Don’t tell Grandma. I met my soul mate 19 years ago. His parents followed the politically-correct marital path. Mine did not – well, not at first anyway. They chose to start out their [...]

The other day I was meandering down the Personal Growth aisle in one of those huge, all encompassing book stores. I was searching for a book that would help a friend of mine deal with the passing of a loved one. After gazing at title after title, on shelf after shelf, I realized that there [...]

On the summer solstice of 2005, I lost my 94-year-old maternal grandmother, Evelyn Brunel Carr. She had slowly been slipping away from us for at least five years, and though we knew her passing was expected, when it hit – it hit hard. Since then, I have done many things to keep her memory alive, [...]

Our son drove his pickup truck filled with his stuff. We were in our Jeep filled with more of his stuff. From a computer to plastic stackable color-coordinated crates to extra-long sheets to a microwave appropriately sized for a dorm, the cost of a college education had taken on a completely different perspective. “Are you [...]

There are worse things than spending a weekend with in-laws – like spending the weekend with all the in-laws. Especially since I chose the reunion location, and it turned out to be only a little higher-classed than the Bates Motel from Psycho. In our cabin we found holes in the wooden floor big enough for [...]