Sasee Magazine

For many of us, whose mothers have passed on, Mother’s Day is a time to remember. My relationship with my mother was always one of respect and love, but I did spend a lot of time worrying about whether or not she approved of my life and the choices I had made. Before she died, [...]

Claudia Berner’s parents, Walter and Muriel Berner, retired to their beloved Murrells Inlet to golf and enjoy their retirement years. On her frequent visits, Claudia started noticing differences in her dad, small quirky things that were not a part of his personality. After his eventual diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, Walter asked Claudia to make sure [...]

Two couples were married in April: Sixty-three years apart. Much about their lives is very different, but the love they share is unchanged by the passage of time. The first boy met the first girl, and they fell in love. He asked, and she said yes. Thus began their life together. The boy was handsome, [...]

In this month’s “Women & Men Who Mean Business” feature, I asked business owners to tell me their favorite Easter or Passover memory. After hearing all the wonderful stories they had to tell, I thought about my own celebrations. I come from a traditional Southern home, and church was always a big part of our [...]

Pawleys Island resident, Kira Roff, is passionate about trash – or, rather, recycling and what happens to the trash after it gets thrown out. The Wisconsin native, and former Vice-President of Operations and Events at Brookgreen Gardens, started Brookgreen Garden’s recycling program. Once accomplished, her dedication to improving and maintaining our environment eventually led Kira [...]

Early one morning, not too long after sunrise, I was coming back from a jog on the beach. My route takes me up and down the South Causeway in Pawleys; the road that connects the island to the mainland, over Pawleys creek and surrounding salt marsh. In the twenty-odd years I’ve lived in the area, [...]

Typing “acts of generosity and kindness today” into your computer’s search engine will bring up more than six million results – the hungry are being fed, a helping hand is given to someone in need or a kind word changes a life. Good deeds, great and small, are found everywhere and are mostly done without [...]

For over fifty years, visitors and residents to the island of Sunset Beach, North Carolina, made their way slowly over a one-lane wooden pontoon bridge to reach this peaceful, slow-moving beach community. Island life revolved around the opening and closing of the bridge, which took 15 minutes to accomplish. Dinner plans off island were always [...]

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 [...]

Gracious, articulate and attractive, 81 year-old Nell Cribb, lifelong resident of Georgetown, is someone most people in this small town know – or have at least seen walking the streets of the historic district in period dress while operating her tour company, Miss Nell’s Walking Tours. This active octogenarian also collects Coca Cola® memorabilia and [...]