Sasee Magazine

Last night I looked up at the full moons and thought how beautiful they were, perfect silver globes just shimmering up there, overlapping each other’s heavenly brilliance. Wait a minute. Moons? Plural? Okay, it was Saturday night – but no, I had not been partaking of the fruit of the vine. Still, I did see [...]

I don’t remember when I first noticed the cedar tree. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that I really never actually did notice it. It was just always there, a giant silent sentinel standing by the front porch of the house where I grew up. It wasn’t even the largest tree in the [...]

Todd says that when I die, he’s gonna have my obituary include a line that says “Pack a lunch” for those who plan to attend my funeral. He plans to headline the event by telling stories about me. Given that he’s the husband of my friend Sandy, who I have known more than half my [...]

There is a sign hanging at eye level at my front door that reads; “A clean house is a sign of a misspent life.” When I die, I may be accused of having done a lot of things, but misspending my life will not be one of them. It’s not that I have anything against [...]

White hot. Scalding. Searing sharp poker red, blazing and blinding and burning. All that and more, and still I don’t quite capture the color of that night. Words won’t accurately speak the intensity of my anger. Or my pain. I had gone to spend the night with my mother after she’d come home from surgery. [...]

I am a yogini. Given that the word first conjured for me images of a goofy cartoon bear and a language-mangling baseball player, it will come as no surprise that I am not the coolest yogini on the mat. But I know that I am one, because Karin, my younger and uber-cool sister of the [...]

It is January 2004. I am unemployed, single and clueless about what to do, where to go and how I’m going to live the rest of my life. Six months ago, I sold the stock, the shelving, the cash register, the doormat and everything else that would scrounge up a nickel, from a gourmet food [...]

It is momentous. Cause for celebration, for shouting from the rooftops. It is, very possibly, one of the reasons that life is worth living. The first tomatoes have ripened on my vines. And what that means – oh, be still my quivering heart – is the first tomato sandwich is soon to be consumed. I [...]