Order Mary Buxton’s books
Life and love in the rural tidewater area of Virginia is a common thread that runs through nearly all of Mary Wakefield Buxton's books. The push and pull of old and new, North and South, man and woman, life and death, are discovered, illuminated and reflected upon in each of them. Such is the heart and soul of a writer.
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Dancing in the Streets
After four months of Obama’s presidency are we still dancing in the streets? Has it yet hit the glazed-eyed revelers that this president is grappling the best he can, just as Bush did, with the very serious problems that this nation faces and that he is making some very major fundamental mistakes?
06.11.2009
Our Treasure: Middlesex Museum
On a recent visit I heard myself exclaiming over and over, “Oh, I remember those!” upon seeing items displayed in yesterday’s general store. Especially savored were toys such as jacks sets, jump ropes, (do children still play jacks and jump rope?) marbles, old-fashioned dolls, wooden blocks, tea sets, and even a gum ball machine.
06.03.2009
First Sail of the Season
As spring arrives each year I feel that special tug of the sea, as English poet John Masefield put it so well in his eternal line . . . “I must down to the seas again. . . .” that annual longing for the first sail of the year. It could come as early as February, but it is more usual in April.
05.27.2009
A Priest For All Seasons, Part 1
There are citizens in Middlesex who are absolutely indispensable to our quality of life. They are such fine thinkers and/or doers that life without their leadership and inspiration would be inconceivable. I count Father John Boddie of the Church of the Visitation in such company.
05.27.2009
