by MCMAdmin | Apr 16, 2024 | Sally Buffington, Thinking |
In the Box As I flipped the calendar over to the April page, a memory leaped to mind. Oh, now that was one of the best gifts I ever received . . . a brown-paper-wrapped carton, addressed in my father’s handwriting, stuffed into the mailbox at the foot of our...
by MCMAdmin | Mar 22, 2024 | Baking, Cooking, Food and Recipes, Sally Buffington |
Recently I watched as a new friend (we’d just been introduced by a mutual friend), typed in www.sallybuffington.com for the first time—and there were the familiar apples, in the upper left hand corner of the home page. “That’s it!” I said as I saw my name, logo, and...
by MCMAdmin | Feb 10, 2024 | Faces, Sally Buffington, Seeing/Photographs, Thinking |
Normally, my seventh period class furnished a quiet end to the school day, but not today. From my desk on right hand side, waiting for the final bell, I was more or less listening when a major interruption breezed in. It was several of my classmates, laughing and...
by MCMAdmin | Jan 19, 2024 | Baking, Cooking, Cooking Untensils, Food and Recipes, Places, Sally Buffington |
7:45 A.M. Ready for the day, I walk into the kitchen and there where I left them drying last night, are three graduated though un-matched pans. Oh, it’s Father Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear. The old faithfuls! Ready for yet more service—no rest for the weary around...
by MCMAdmin | Dec 11, 2023 | Cape Cod, Nature, Sally Buffington |
“Let’s go out in the woods and cut our own Christmas tree!” December 1957, Eastham, Massachusetts. I was eleven. After years of two-week vacations on Cape Cod, which I’d always considered a magic summer kingdom, my parents and I had moved—to Cape Cod! We were just...
by MCMAdmin | Nov 20, 2023 | Cape Cod, Faces, Sally Buffington |
Sometimes when I can’t sleep and my mind’s all stirred up, I lie in bed and calm myself by making up an alphabetical list: towns in my state, for instance, the names of books, or favorite foods. Just the other night, I got going on Thanksgiving. An ample subject!...
