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 | 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 | Oct 20, 2023 | Cape Cod, Cape Cod Books, Places, Sally Buffington, Seeing/Photographs, Thinking, Travel |
Traveling this past summer, as always I took books with me, and as always, bought more along the way. Though I also brought a Nook e-reader, I got held up in the TSA line because I didn’t remove it from my carry-on for scanning; the agent could hardly believe this...
by Sally | Dec 20, 2022 | Thinking |
A San Francisco Magnificat Mid-December in a room on the ninth floor of the Marriott, I sit reading the first chapters of Luke’s Gospel in a Gideon Bible. Like Mary a traveler far from home though I’m not “great with child.” I’m full of questions, too —...
by Sally | May 10, 2022 | Sally Buffington, Thinking |
In my neighborhood, I walk in the sensory experience known as spring, and am presented with a visual and aural symphony. This time of year is especially a veritable feast of things to observe, delight in, and photograph. This year, I’ve walked with a companion, for...
by Sally | Dec 14, 2021 | Places, Thinking |
As a child, I used to read this verse on the cover of the family photo album. Now I would add a line: “old places”—and one old place in particular, our Craigville cottage of which I wrote in A Place Like This. Yet we never celebrated Christmas there. All...
