Sasee Magazine

I love Christmas carols. I can’t carry a tune, but I keep my car radio tuned to the Christmas station during December and sing holiday music at the top of my lungs. One song in particular brings tears to my eyes no matter how often I hear it. The melody takes me back to Christmas [...]

Most people zip down the interstate highways like they’re at a race track; young people flash by me a in a blur, and whenever I see an old guy in a Corvette, I just signal and move to the slow lane, as I know he is reliving his youth, a time in his life when [...]

There was a time in my life when I clomped to work in fancy dress shoes, and I danced the metal tips right off every pair of high heels in my closet. These days I prefer my shoes cushy-soft, and I wish with all my heart that winter didn’t come to the Midwest. Like most [...]

Through my teen years, I had no idea who that plain girl was looking back at me in my hand-held mirror. She had occasional blemishes, straight hair so thick a clamp couldn’t hold it and about an ounce and a half of self-confidence. Throughout my twenties, the gal in my oval dresser mirror wore sensible [...]

I am not a meddler, but now that I am an expectant grandmother I am about to give unsolicited advice to my daughter-in-law. I believe that I can talk the talk because I walked the walk with the father-to-be. The new parents haven’t an inkling as to how dramatically their lives will change after the [...]

Much like the first year of marriage, the first year of retirement can be stressful as partners adjust to their new arrangement. Add a menopausal woman and a broken thermostat (mine, not the furnace’s) to the equation and life can be a blast. My husband is now aware that I’m not the gal he married. [...]