— “For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,” she told The New Yorker in 2012. “Then I found that they were all I could do, and so I faced that ….. I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.” — Alice Munro in the New York Times upon learning she won the Nobel Prize for literature.
— Mark Oswald reports in the Journal on the big change in public access policy at the Valles Caldera National Preserve
in the Jemez Mountains: “The board that oversees the Valles Caldera voted recently to allow hikers to wander as they like around the spectacular 89,000-acre preserve in the Jemez Mountains – a dramatic break from the restricted and regulated access allowed previously.”
— Sun comes through the northeast window. I stir. Cooper, the former animal shelter guy, hops up onto the bed and extends a white paw, as if to affirm we still have a deal.
dream ranch 