Sassafras Mama

From time to time, a neighborhood cat pops up on the back porch and my very indulged indoor cats, spying the outsider from the sli...

In 2011, JT was in 5th and 6th grade.   At 11, he was still a boy, though less and less little.   At the time, it was hard to beli...

Garden hostas look good until they don’t and we’ve had enough frost in the past few weeks to end their season. The leaves ...

Halloween is a big deal in my town.   We have wide streets and sidewalks and that brings in the trick-or-treaters.   I keep track ...

I feel more anticipation for the November 6 election than I have every felt about an election in my lifetime.   It feels like so m...

In the past week, I’ve been watching baseball playoffs and the World Series.   I’ve missed JT as I watch these games, because watc...

Fall and Halloween are in command on the October front porch. Halloween decorations are the reason I first got into a seasonal d...

After a warmer than usual September and early October, sometime last week, Fall took firm hold of our days.   Sweaters came out in...

At the age of 9, JT was in 3rd and 4th grade.   I loved this age because there was enough maturity to make for some interestin...

  Last week I was up north in central Massachusetts with my school’s sixth graders, who sent the week at The Farm School in...