Sassafras Mama

2022 has been a really hard year for me; in many respects, the hardest year I’ve ever experienced.   Tiger the cat died in January.   My par...

In the aftermath of the break-up with T, I looked for ways to be kind to myself.   This is not a trait that comes easily to me but if ever a...

I love to play games - especially card games - and during Christmas in California there were a lot of opportunities to play.   I enjoyed all...

I have a vivid memory from the year I moved to Nashville, of going for a Fall walk at Radnor Lake and being among the trees.   They were vas...

I’ve come with JT to California for Christmas, to spend time with my family and to try something different as I am once again single at age ...

We are smack dab in the middle of Winter right now and last week’s storm made this clear.   The snow was pretty and the light at sunset was ...

 If there is one truth in my world, it's that flowers make everything better.  To say so long to the struggles of January, I brought hom...

Every school year, sometime around week five, I become convinced I have developed a terminal illness.   My body aches at the end of the day,...

The backyard dogwood tree is rather a harbinger of things to come.   It’s my first sight of Spring in April and come September, its leaves b...

September of any school year is typically exhausting but September in pandemic school was well beyond that.   In the first full week, we qua...