Sally’s Blog
Choosing Cheese
Travel is supposed to be about newness and adventure, isn’t it? The challenge of trying unfamiliar things, new experiences. Yet as I think most of us do on a trip, I also love meeting up with something familiar. Sometimes I even “have my cake and eat it, too” (to mix...
Pond
Come along with me, let’s fly over an expanse of leafy Cape Cod woods, oaks interspersed with pines. Occasionally the foliage swath is punctuated by a house, or several houses in a row, plus roads like threads of black or sandy brown, and most notably by jewel-like...
On the Street Where I Live
My home is located on a terraced street sliced off the side of a hillside, territory typical of San Diego. Whether I walk the upper side of the street, as my house is situated, or on the lower, I’m in deep debt to my neighbors for their yards and/or hillside...
A Cup of Tea
Back from a trip, I blow into the house, lugging bags of various shapes and sizes. Now to unpack: distribute this, stash that, put something somewhere, dump laundry into the bin, all the things you do to get yourself back into normal life. Seldom is this an orderly or...
Cara Cara Cake
The Farmer’s Market on a recent Saturday afternoon, and I’m gazing at the bounty of early January in southern California. What to buy? Which lovely opportunities shall I select from the glowing spectrum before me? Orange, yellow, green, even the rosy blush of blood...
Long Playing
I grew up with two fathers: one, my biological father and the other, Joannes Brahms, the composer whose music Daddy and I most loved. At times the two blend together in my mind, for whenever I hear the music of Brahms, I’m folded into a wordless embrace of intimacy...
A Taste for Aunts
In the spirit of Dylan Thomas’ line, “There are always Uncles at Christmas,” this Thanksgiving season, I’m speaking up for Aunts. Specifically, my two Aunt Betty’s and my Aunt Ellen Braithwaite, who have been on my mind as I’ve lived the days leading to this...
Reporting In
Hello, and thanks for stopping by. Just wanted to let you know that my blog will continue, also that this website will undergo some changes in the new year. Www.sallybuffington.com is growing up. If you’re already a faithful reader who wonders why blog posts have...