Sassafras Mama

It is a well-known fact that I love flip flop sandals and, given the chance, I would wear them all year long.   However, as I’ve grown older...

The outdoors are my sweet spot and being able to go for walks and visit gardens and parks has been one of the best parts of my post-hip repl...

Yesterday, JT and I made a trip west to San Diego.   We’re hanging out with family and later in the week I will see my college roommate.   I...

When JT was a little boy, he called his baseball cap his “ball cap hat.” The phrase stuck with me and though I rarely say it out loud, when ...

I read so many good books in June, that’s it’s nearly impossible to pick one as the monthly favorite.   I started the month finishing out th...

I love my morning coffee.   In the Summer, I drink my cups outside on the front porch.   The birds chirp, I inhale the aroma of the first mu...

The arrival of warmer weather means that unless there is rain, supper at my house is always served outside on the back deck.   Everything ta...

The past two years have been hard.   JT’s post-graduation struggle, T’s departure, my father’s death, and then the disability and pain of my...

For years now, my favorite place to go for a walk is Colonial Park.    Its gardens, its roses and flowers, its expansive sky, and its woods ...

At the three month check-up for my hip, the Physician’s Assistant made the mistake of asking me if I was glad I’d had my hip replaced.   She...