Sassafras Mama

It’s been one year to-the-date since T left.   In all fairness, it should not be expressed in that way — she left in anger on the 6th of Nov...

T and I took a day over the weekend to go to one of our favorite places and stop by some farm stands along the way.   We came home in posses...

Before I returned to meetings at school on August 31,  T and I stole a few hours on that last weekend to visit Jenny Jump State Park, one of...

The backstory: Flip flops are my favorite thing in the world and I own an unnecessary assortment of them.   This morning, T noticed flip flo...

Heady with the success of our first Saturday adventure in New Jersey, T and I set off to visit Monmouth Battlefield last Saturday.   The da...

The beautiful weather took hold of us and T and I set out on Saturday afternoon to enjoy a picnic and at Voorhees State Park.   The views w...

This little china cottage is my most recent tiny house.   T gave it to me for my birthday last November.   We picked it up at an antiqu...

One of the things that T and I most enjoy come Spring is a walk on the D&R Canal towpath.   We most enjoy going at twilight when there ...

My people are a competitive lot and nowhere is this more clear than when we play card games.   We are vicious and mean under these...

This week begins the all-school faculty meetings to ease us into the start of a new school year.   New students will come for a ha...

T and I spent the week nursing her stitched and casted arm and, as the days passed, nervously awaiting the doctor’s call with the patho...

Last week, T and I took some time for some regional historical site adventures.   We travelled to Oyster Bay, New York, to check o...

Posting has been light this week as I attend to a zillion last-minute chores and errands in preparation for a very big deal.   This wee...

We’ve reached that point of the school year where things are busy beyond measure.   Each week in April there’s been at least one a...

Last weekend, T and I went to Sunset Diner, as one does when one lives in New Jersey.   My previous calls for public soundtracks t...

T and I have been gobbling up Netflix showings of the Great British Bake Off.   We love everything about it, even the week that feature...

On our trip to the burning region of New York state , T and I stopped at a rest stop in Pennsylvania.   It was a vending machine wonder...

My parents flew into town on the Friday before JT’s graduation, on the heels of my nephew S’s own high school graduation.   They w...

On Saturday, after we finished our weekly grocery shopping chore, T and I went to Colonial Park to look for Spring.   We’d had one...

  T celebrates a birthday this week and at Sassafras House, birthdays mean presents. That’s happy!