Tag: grandmother
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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…
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Timeless Sea
by Kelly Salasin I plop right down in the ocean soaked sand, just far enough from the incoming tide, and begin digging. I use my hands, never a shovel, letting the fine wet grains stuff themselves behind my fingernails. I won’t go as far as China today. I’ll scoop just enough to make a…