I feel foolish but not old. I started writing here, trying to lay out my morning thoughts, but poems by Theodore Roethke emerged. Our father started reading Roethke to me and my brother Pat in the early 1950s, before we were in school. Dad was studying at the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa. …
My birthday here at the Fortress of Platitudes would have been incomplete without pinto beans and party animals. Notes: — All party animal photos by Izzy and Molly owner Lori.
This was my delivery route for the Santa Fe New Mexican in 1961. At least it’s what I remember at 2 am, waking in my living room chair in Placitas 64 years later. Acequia Madre from Garcia Street to Camino del Monte Sol, Garcia from Acequia Madre to Canyon Road, Delgado from Acequia Madre to …
I was born in 1949 and my first home was married student housing at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where my parents were young students. I have lived in Iowa City, IA, Las Vegas, N.M., Upper Arlington, OH., Santa Fe, N.M., Sausalito, Ca., Karşıyaka, Turkey, Larkspur, Ca., Berkeley, Ca., and near Bishop, Ca., among other …
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