Remember the Sweet Things

Ellen's book touched me in so many ways. Being married for 50 years, I wish I had started a list. This book is what marriage should be about. Growing and loving, sharing, etc. I have already shared it with my near and dear. Thank you Ellen. Adele Teichman

Ellen Greene's book is charming and touching and flows smoothly. It is a comfortable read, like having a real conversation with someone that you know and like. And what you glean from it in the end is how to have a truly wonderful marriage the second time around. There is a lot to be learned here about the proper care and feeding of a loving relationship.

It's hard to believe this is Ellen Greene's first published book. She is a phenomenal writer whose tale of love, marriage and adventurous travels is both captivating and romantic. This is the perfect Valentine's Day gift for a significant other. This book made me laugh, cry and want to work harder on my own marriage! I made my husband read it too---it's an inpsiring read.

I loved Ellen Greene's "Remember the Sweet Things" and I've recommended it to all of my friends. It's a gentle story, very well told, about a delightfully lived marriage that both people treasured. It reminds us that we make our lives beautiful by living them well and appreciating them always. I cried with Ellen in the early stages before things came together for her and Marsh, and I treasured so many of the special moments that she shared. This is a great gift book for a friend, and one to hold onto.

It was the simple touch of a hand that touched her heart and her life. Ellen hadn't had it easy in the love department. She married young, a marriage that produced two lovely children, but little else save heartbreak. Another long-term relationship after a disastrous marriage only served to fuel her lack of self-esteem. In her heart felt memoir she remembers how Marsh's affectionate gesture changed her life forever. Ellen was a Midwestern gal, from simple unpretentious stock, while Marsh actually had a "pedigree." Her descent from bootleggers made no difference to Marshall Whitney Greene. The courtship he began would last a lifetime. "I'm a simple guy," he said, "with not too many moving parts. I just want a shot at happiness, and that means being with you." Relationships are made. They do not come for the asking, nor as some folks think, emanate from 'matches made in heaven.' It takes work. Ellen's patience sometimes ran thin, but she decided to dwell on the positive aspects of the relationship and began to write down the endearing things Marsh did and present them to him with affection. Long after the negative experiences disappeared from memory, Ellen Greene's legacy to Marsh took the form of a book in an extremely touching narrative, Remember the Sweet Things: One List, Two Lives, and Twenty Years of Marriage. A blended family, a stint in China, an aborted sail around the world, the throes of Parkinson's Disease . . . it was their life and love. This book is a surreptitious manual for a successful and loving marriage. Ellen Greene loved her husband Marsh deeply, yet was forthright with the reader admitting her own fallibility. This is a real life love story that would surpass any Jude Deveraux novel. Very highly recommended book! Deb Fowler - Roundtable Reviews