Gotta find another picture of my friend Susan, one where she isn’t recuperating from a bunch of broken bones after a rare rock climbing fall or hidden under whitewater in Souse Hole on the Rio Grande, although this one with her sister Cathy, right, is pretty cute. Susan, of course, has her Home Depot tool …
I do it almost every time. I know better, but the temptations come. I get it in my head that something extra should be added to my pot of pinto beans. I think a little onion. A little garlic. A little bacon. The truth is none are needed. I love the pinto bean’s earthiness. It’s …
I hope it’s okay to reprint here an entire poem from Theodore Roethke. It’s silly, but often so am I. I can’t find the copyright. I suspect it was written in the 1940’s. This comes from my 1958 Doubleday edition of “Words for the Wind.” Carolyn Kizer’s obituary in the New York Times set me …
One of the coolest maps ever: John Wesley Powell’s watersheds of the West. And mapped in another way by A.L. Kroeber (?) in 1939: Map 1a. Native Tribes of North America. University of California Map Series. No. 13.
This guy can play the harmonica, and this is a real American classic dating back more than 100 years. Stumbled across Charlie McCoy performing “Oh, Shenandoah” on an old Hee Haw (RFD TV). Feel like I should be watching a big, rolling river on a warm summer evening or the sun setting beyond broad pastures, but …
It’s a crying shame that I was too busy working to go out and eat on a three-day trip to Las Cruces. I know there are good places to go. It was somewhat pleasant to find that I could purchase a microwavable Thai noodle bowl at the front desk of my hotel. And I’m always …
I’m thinking great wisdom is embodied in these comments on work and exercise from the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon. At least, I am enamored of his alternative view of exercise. This is from today’s “Sunday Routine” in the New York Times. It’s one of my first reads each week. “WORK AS EXERCISE I have …
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