Sasee Magazine

Why is it that when you have guests over for dinner, and they only eat half their food, one thought consumes you after they leave: What was wrong with the other half? Of course, what we should really do is view the glass as half-full not half-empty; at least they enjoyed the chicken even if [...]

It took just one sentence of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, Eat, Pray, Love, to stop me in my tracks. The words leapt off the page at me, and I felt my whole body sag. “No, no, not now,” I pleaded to myself, “all I want to do right now is not think.” I was desperate for [...]

A man drove up to me in the Wal-Mart parking lot three weeks ago. He had two young boys in the back of his car and told me he had driven into town from the next state over to attend his grandmother’s funeral. He needed gas to get back home and asked me for money. [...]

In marriage, certain rules go without saying: Love, fidelity, honesty and respect. However, it is the second set of rules – the unwritten ones – that cause havoc or harmony behind closed doors. The first unwritten rule reveals itself months into the marriage – usually around the time the happy couple, or should I say [...]

One great thing about getting older is realizing that if you wait long enough, your clothes will come back in fashion. The downside is, that it means that our closets are full of dated, but beloved, gems that we no longer wear, can’t get rid of, but hope that one day their day in the [...]

A couple wants to host a dinner party for friends. They discover that one of the wives is a vegetarian, at which point they decide they have four choices: One, cook a separate meal for the veg-head; two, re-do the menu and make the entire meal vegetarian; three, pretend they didn’t know, or forgot, and [...]

I recently put my cell-phone charger in a “safe place.” It was during our last move and I knew my fully-charged phone would last until the new house. The safe place is a spot that exists in every home, similar to the Bermuda Triangle. Growing up, my Mom was forever putting stuff there – most [...]

When Grandma was 17, she climbed out of her bedroom window, in the middle of the night, wearing as many of her clothes as possible. She was running away to marry the orphaned, farmer boy she had fallen in love with but knew her parents would never approve of. The year was 1933, and the [...]

I picked up the box and was shocked by how heavy it was – now I was really intrigued. All I really wanted to do was rip it open right then and there, but agonizing as it was to resist the burning curiosity surging through me, I remembered the frozen goods defrosting in the car [...]

My husband and I just returned from a trip to England. In the two weeks we were there, we drank a wicked amount of wine – we had no choice. Our trip involved numerous visits with friends and family who insisted on opening generous amounts of wine to accompany the meals we were sharing with [...]