Sassafras Mama

  The backstory:   For some time, I’ve had a personal rule to limit road rage on the major boulevard in front of school.  That’s a place wh...

For all of the Summer of 2015, I posted a picture of my garden every Monday .  In the last few weeks, as the Summer growing season has ...

In mid-week, Hurricane Joaquin got to churning in the Atlantic Ocean.  Forecasts were uncertain but couldn’t rule out the prospect of landf...

Last weekend, T and I took Saturday to see some friends and visit some of our favorite places.  We stopped at a farm stand to pick out some...

Homemade boursin, known to us as white cheese, is a long-standing favorite at Sassafras House and I make it fairly often. Most often...

Leaves are just beginning to turn in my corner of the world.  Part of the change is due to the arrival of shorter days and cooler nigh...

Tomorrow is the first of October and fall seems to have taken firm hold of my world.  T treated me to another bouquet of flowers and the lo...

I don’t know if this a thing elsewhere, but here in my New Jersey town things left at the curb are fair game for scrappers and recyclers.  ...

When four days pass without rain, I get up in the morning and turn on the sprinkler to nourish the garden.  As the days grow shorter...

In the New York Times magazine’s yearly edition on college education there was an essay by Edward F. Baptist entitled, “Teaching Slavery.” ...