Sasee Magazine

We live in an amazingly generous community. I have had the privilege of working with volunteers and hearing stories of kindness that confirm my belief in the innate goodness of most people. I’ve also found that the smallest thoughtful gesture can change someone’s day for the better. During the holidays, I was out shopping. It [...]

Even though I love summer and hot weather, January holds its own magic. It’s exciting to start a brand new year, with unlimited possibilities, and it’s a great month for relaxing weekends spent reading or watching a good movie. If you need suggestions for a great book, be sure to read Lisa Hamilton’s insightful review, [...]

Each month, Sasee publishes nine first person essays, selected from the many well-crafted submissions we receive. Freelance writing is lonely work. It involves a lot of sitting at the computer for hours on end and then sending the results out into cyberspace with no clue to how it will be received. While we cannot publish [...]

Stephanie Necessary and Eileen Patonay are both educators at Forestbrook Middle School, and through the years we have worked together on several projects. I greatly admire them both for the dedication and love they have for their students – and their students have for them. Recently, I was asked to have a “shadow” for a [...]

Being a new “empty-nester,” I find the road of my life has changed direction. The house stays clean, and no one wakes me up coming in late at night. I don’t ever have to cook, and grocery shopping is now a completely selfish task. Seeing my son so happy and engaged in school and his [...]

One of my favorite things about my work is interviewing the many fascinating women highlighted in Sasee. This month, I met with Gina Trimarco, founder of Carolina Improv Company in Uptown Myrtle Beach Theater. She and her hilarious troupe of improv artists are well worth the trip to Myrtle Beach Mall and the very reasonable [...]

This month, I did something drastic – I stopped watching television. Well, not completely, I do still watch the occasional movie, but I no longer have a cable subscription with 200+ channels. After a brief, slightly uncomfortable withdrawal, I was shocked by how little I missed it. And, by how much more spare time I [...]

No matter how old I get, I always look forward to summer. It’s more of a feeling than an actual event, but life just doesn’t get much better than those hours I spend relaxing on the beach with a good book. Francine Garson’s essay, “The Library,” in this issue, reminded me of how much I [...]

In the mid 1990s, I worked for what is now, Tidelands Hospice. I loved my work with Hospice volunteers and made quite a few friends that remain a part of my life today. One of them, Zenobia Washington, is now an on air personality for TV33 South, the fun local access channel we all enjoy. [...]

On the second Sunday of each May we celebrate motherhood. This month, I was able to talk to several daughters about why they work with and love their mothers, and I started to think about my own mom, who I lost, two days after Mother’s Day, in 1992. Every time something happens with my own [...]