Sasee Magazine

“Hey, Honey, I’ve got something to tell you,” my husband, Eric, said over the phone. “Make it quick, OK? I just dropped the kids off with my mom, and now I’ve got to finish packing,” I said. “I can hardly wait to get on that plane!” “Yeah, about that. The manager of the time share [...]

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?” [...]

“Bye, Sweethearts, have a wonderful day!” I called to my children as they boarded the bus for the first day of the new school year. I sniffed and wiped my eyes. “Oh, Honey, it’s only a half-day. They’ll be home again before you know it,” my husband, Eric, said with a sympathetic smile. I sniffled [...]

I have five children. Three of them I acquired the normal way – nine months of heartburn and hemorrhoids, followed by no less than 17 hours of unpleasant sensations in my abdominal area. But looking back, I count those days as some of the best in my life. (Motherhood is funny that way.) My other [...]

One of my children’s favorite cartoons is called “Phineas and Ferb.” It’s about these two boys who happened to be named – yeah, you guessed it – Phineas and Ferb. There’s also a bad guy who’s a lot more dorky than he is evil, and a platypus turned spy named Perry. (Yeah, I know, it’s [...]

I’m not the least bit art-y. And I’m not at all musical either. Unfortunately, Indiana University’s School of Education didn’t get the memo. They thought they could magically transform me into some half-note-reading, treble-clef-drawing, acrylic-paint-using Mother Earth type. Yeah, well, I’m a lost cause. The ability is simply not there. But I really wanted to [...]

My husband Eric proposed to me in the parking lot of a Burger King. No, I’m not kidding, and please stop laughing. In my husband’s defense, he didn’t plan to ask me in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. He’d planned something more romantic on two different occasions, but an error at the [...]

I woke up early to a gorgeous July morning. The sunlight was already streaming through my window, and I knew it was going to be an absolute scorcher. As I padded down the hallway to the kitchen – and the coffee pot – I could hear my children discussing what they were going to do [...]

On Tuesday my husband of 10 years told me – over the phone, mind you – that he was no longer in love with me and he wanted out of our marriage; a marriage that had produced two children who were just three and six at that time. On Wednesday, I watched silently as he [...]

“Why did he get that? I didn’t get one,” I said countless times throughout my childhood. “That’s not fair.” “Life will not always be fair,” my mother would say in her oh-so-patient voice. I hated when she said that. As a child, I wanted things to be fair. All the time. Even when it didn’t [...]