by Sally | Mar 14, 2025 | California, On My Mind |
You’re reading the first in a series of posts about travel and places, this one occasioned by Andy’s and my upcoming annual trip to the Anza Borrego Desert in southern California, northeast of San Diego. Borrego’s two-and-a-half hours away; more than that, it is a...
by Sally | Feb 19, 2025 | At The Table, On My Mind, Seeing and Photography |
When I came to California from Massachusetts in 1968, newly married—to Berkeley, no less—everything was new, everything was dazzling, and little seemed familiar. It was as though I’d landed in a sort of Disneyland replete with regions: UC Berkeley, Frat Land,...
by Sally | Jan 21, 2025 | On My Mind, Seeing and Photography |
Happy New Year! Happy New Year? What a start I’ve had.After a grand and busy Christmas with family here, both local and visiting, a sleepy New Year’s Eve (neither of us made it to midnight, nor anywhere close), –and then The Bug. On January 4th, I joined a long...
by Sally | Dec 12, 2024 | Holidays, On My Mind |
Stopping for a last-minute ingredient the day before Thanksgiving, on my way into the supermarket, I came on a stack of evergreen Christmas wreaths; I could have just picked one up and tossed it into my cart. Cross that item off the list! Or a couple of days later, I...
by Sally | Nov 22, 2024 | At The Table, Holidays, On My Mind |
When I first came to California in 1968, newly married, I started right in to continue the Thanksgiving traditions I knew from childhood, though one of my first such dinners included turkey cooked at too high a heat and thoroughly dried out; somehow I cobbled together...