Sasee Magazine

When my kids were little, I had a recurring dream: My neighbor’s children were standing in my driveway saying, “Let’s go to Mikey’s house. His mother makes great fudge.” In the dream, I’m looking out a bay window, beating on the glass, yelling, “No! No!” It was a weird dream, since I’ve never made fudge, [...]

When asked, we tell people that we do Thanksgiving the way the Pilgrims did it, although I doubt Pilgrims used propane, disposable pans and barbecue grills. Still, when our children were young, we convinced them that since the Pilgrims cooked their turkey outdoors, that this was as close to a traditional Thanksgiving a family could [...]

In the days of disco, I could never figure out fashion. That doesn’t mean I didn’t try. I had outfits with metal studs – the bling before bling. I had all the clothes required to walk into a disco, club or skating rink looking for Mr. Right – in this case, Mr. Disco. I just [...]

With our first home, my husband, Sam, and I could not figure out why it had been on the market as long as it had been. We fell in love with it immediately. It was a little red ranch house with an apple tree in the front yard on a cul-de-sac with over forty trees [...]

With news of my husband’s pending transfer, our lives would change forever. We would be moving away from family and friends to a place where we would have to start all over. My husband and I were nervously excited about the move from New Jersey to Arizona, but our relatives and friends staged an all-out [...]

To some, a garden must be lush and green with flowers and plants, a manicured lawn, bushes, hedges and trees. We had one of those when we lived in New Jersey. Our summer chores were focused on mowing, raking, trimming, cutting back, removing weeds and maintaining various projects we started. It was a labor of [...]

Ugh! Exercise! Exercise was not something I did or ever thought I would do. I was embarrassed to go to an exercise club to workout with a trainer. I had always been a klutz, was never confident in knowing right from left, was on a small budget and just didn’t want to get into exercise [...]

Sam and I aren’t married yet. We will be married someday; we just aren’t married yet. We haven’t even discussed marriage. I’m happy. He’s happy. My dog is happy. His cats are happy. Life is good. And surprisingly, marriage isn’t on my mind. But marriage IS on Sam’s mind and if there are hints, I [...]

I often say my grandmother was the original recycler. Even before the days of recycling bins for soda cans, my grandmother could find uses for things that others simply threw away. She was a recycler before people were attempting green living and discussing sustainability. She recycled before people were “Saving the Earth.” She was a [...]

When I was pregnant and was asked if I wanted a boy or girl, my answer was that I did not want a girl. I never said I wanted a boy. This left very few options. There was a legitimate reason. During my teen years, I was rebellious, especially toward my parents. I did not [...]