Sassafras Mama

I am what I would call a seasonal optimist; a woman who always looks forward to the seasons ahead.  Sometimes, I think that I enjoy the ant...

Since I detected the beginnings of a shoot headed upward last week, I’ve been careful to check in on my bulb each day.  As we experience da...

Monday morning started with an icy rain and temps in the 20s.  Eventually, the sunlight broke through and the day warmed to the low 40s.  I...

For me, teaching 6th graders has been an epiphany in so many ways.  As much as I hope that my students are learning their way around new id...

The very first word JT uttered was toothbrush.  That fact amuses me because his toothbrushing habits haven’t always been what I might hope....

The other day, one of my classes of 6th graders asked me what a nose job was and I reminded them that I had in fact had a nose job in the f...

I was starting to fret that the adage about a watched pot never boiling would apply to my amaryllis, which seemed to be lingering in winter...

The most recent Northeast snowstorm landed us two days off from school, freezing cold, and nearly a foot of snow.  This last development i...

JT and V have been friends since they were 4 years old.  Even the two years that V spent at school overseas in the 4th and 5th grade could ...

When my sister and I were little girls on house hunting adventures with our parents, two-story homes were a rarity.  We grew up in Californ...