Sassafras Mama

JT has always been the sort of kid to shut the doors and lock them and that particular proclivity caused trouble on day 1 of our cruise.  O...

I plant my garden in mid-Spring, usually right around Mother’s Day.  For the next few weeks I weed and check on my young plants and seeds, ...

On day 1 of our northern European journey JT and I found ourselves in Copenhagen at 7 am Copenhagen time, 1 am New Jersey time.  What follo...

Nice years ago, when I first moved into this house, my mother and I were sitting on the back deck, looking up at the attic window when she ...

The backstory:   My extended family is headed to Europe to celebrate my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary and I was talking currency conver...

The backstory:   T and I occasionally enjoy checking out garage sales and swap meets.  Though we’ve never found anything of real value, we ...

In both the lower and middle levels at my school, the year ends with a closing ceremony.  The year is celebrated and we say goodbye to the ...

From the 1st to 8th grade, it’s tradition at our school for the students to have a Field Day at the end of the school year.  It’s basically...

For the last two years, JT has run on the school’s cross country team.  He’d always loved running and it didn’t surprise me when he joined ...

The month of May brought enough rain and sustained warmth to permit my garden to explode in blooms and green plants.  This flowerbed is in ...