Tag: grandmother

  • 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…

  • 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…