Remember the Sweet Things: One List, Two Lives, and Twenty Years of Marriage – A Deeply Affecting Memoir of Love and Gratitude

Remember the Sweet Things: One List, Two Lives, and Twenty Years of Marriage – A Deeply Affecting Memoir of Love and Gratitude

“ Remember the Sweet Things isn’t merely a love story. It is a manual for healthy living, told with searing honesty and profound tenderness, and poignancy that touches you on virtually every page.” —Wayne Coffey, New York Times bestselling author of The Boys of Winter   Ellen Greene’s Remember the Sweet Things is a heartfelt, deeply affecting memoir of love, devotion, and a very special marriage, reminding us about what truly matters in life. Fans of Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach will appreciate this warm and loving remembrance that author Susan Wiggs calls, “a beautiful meditation on love and life, and an affirmation of the power of gratitude….A true gift to the reader.” “What could have been a saccharine story filled with clichés is instead a gentle and genuine reminder that the smallest things in life are the most precious. This is a heartfelt tribute to what really matters.” - Publishers Weekly “Remember the Sweet Things is, on its surface, the story of a happy marriage. But it’s much more―a beautiful meditation on love and life, and an affirmation of the power of gratitude. Told in a clear and honest voice, its indelible message―that it’s all the sweet little things that add up to an extraordinary love―is a true gift to the reader.” - -- New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs “REMEMBER THE SWEET THINGS is...a beautiful meditation on love and life, and an affirmation of the power of gratitude. Told in a clear and honest voice, its indelible message―that it’s all the sweet little things that add up to an extraordinary love―is a true gift to the reader.” - -- New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs “Ellen Greene tells us how “happily ever after” works, and she does it with such grace and candor that even the unluckiest and most cynical will take note. This is what marriage could be if we paid attention. This is what life could be if we understood that someday it has to end.” - Marilyn Johnson, author of The Dead Beat “Ellen Greene tells us how “happily ever after” works, and she does it with such grace and candor that even the unluckiest and most cynical will take note....” - Marilyn Johnson, author of The Dead Beat “Remember the Sweet Things isn’t merely a love story. It is a manual for healthy living, told with searing honesty and profound tenderness, and poignance that touches you on virtually every page. Far from a preachy and pedantic how-to, Ellen Greene’s narrative is a real-life chronicle of kindness and consideration, of all the words and deeds that go into making any human relationship flourish. I didn’t just savor Remember the Sweet Things. I am a better person for having read it.” - Wayne Coffey, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Boys of Winter “REMEMBER THE SWEET THINGS isn’t merely a love story. It is a manual for healthy living, told with searing honesty and profound tenderness, and poignance that touches you on virtually every page....I didn’t just savor REMEMBER THE SWEET THINGS. I am a better person for having read it.” - Wayne Coffey, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Boys of Winter “A gentle and genuine reminder that the smallest things in life are the most precious. This is a heartfelt tribute to what really matters.” - Publishers Weekly For twenty years, Ellen Greene kept a running list of the thoughtful, funny, touching things that her husband, Marsh, said and did. She wrote them down secretly, then shared them with him every Valentine’s Day when he would find pages from her “Sweet Things List” tucked inside a card. A lovely and poignant tribute to a man and a marriage, written with grace and candor, Remember the Sweet Things captures the kindness, sharing, humor, and affection that defined the Greenes’ union and encourages us to acknowledge the goodness in our own lives and relationships. Ellen Greene worked as a high school and university-level English teacher, a public sector job skills trainer, and a private sector management developer. She lives in San Jose, California, and San Pancho, Nayarit, Mexico.