Remember when Sundays felt like this? A Sunday drive with no particular destination in mind. Moms sharing gossip on the rotary phone. Leisurely trips to the department store just to window shop. Backyard pool parties full of fun and laughter. Sunday dinners crowded with aunts, uncles and cousins. In Collecting Sundays, Tamara Dawn Koen remembers the people, tastes and traditions that shaped her childhood, and the everyday rituals that became treasured memories. With warmth, humor and affection, she recalls a way of life built around family, food and the simple pleasure of being together. But the story does not end with what she remembers. As Koen moves from daughter to mother, the book reaches into the present, where familiar traditions live alongside new rituals and ordinary moments that, when we look back, turn out to have been extraordinary. Engaging, intimate and filled with warmth and humor, Collecting Sundays is more than a memoir. Sunday, in these pages, is more than a day of the week. It is a feeling: comfort, connection, anticipation and the promise of something to look forward to, and an invitation to recognize the ordinary moments that acquire meaning over time... Read Collecting Sundays and rediscover the moments that matter most. Short Description: Collecting Sundays: The Little Things That Became Everything is a memoir in essays about the moments we rarely recognize while we're living them, how we remember them years later, and the unexpected gift of discovering we're still creating and collecting them. Through food, family, and friendship, Tamara Dawn Koen shares, with warmth and humor, stories that are distinctly her own and yet somehow feel familiar.