Category: Ancestors

  • The Ring

    Kelly Salasin Contributor, Chicken Soup for the Mother & Daughter Soul When the one-year anniversary of my mother’s passing came around, I found myself in the kitchen preparing some of her favorite dishes. I hadn’t planned this, but there I was one hot August afternoon, making her famous soup from the turkey I had roasted…

  • Kissing Leads to “YES!”

    by Kelly Salasin “With the temptations so great for the young these days, I hope that your husband will not find you second hand…” These were the words received in a letter from my great-grandmother during my freshman year at college! Reading them again, twenty years later, I still find myself gasping in surprise. How…