by Sally | Sep 18, 2026 | At The Table |
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...
by Sally | Mar 13, 2026 | At The Table, On My Mind |
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...
by Sally | Feb 6, 2026 | At The Table, California |
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...
by Sally | Nov 21, 2025 | At The Table, Cape Cod, Holidays |
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...
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 | 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...
