What do uncle John and nephew Will do first thing in the morning? Fool around with electronic gadgets, of course. Maybe uncle John is a bad influence on this 9-year-old guy, who arrived here in Placitas yesterday from Montana. But I can’t deny him the iPad if the first thing I’m doing is checking the …
— I started giving Cooper his breakfast in my office before I head to Albuquerque for cancer treatments, (just a few more to go). He chows down at my side while I have a cup of coffee and rattle around on the iMac. We walk later. — Sister Hope and nephew Will arrive today and I’ve …
— A little Raymond Chandler fog in the atmosphere this morning, or at least that’s what came to mind as I looked out the bedroom window at first light. I started pondering mysteries of the weather, cancer, spinners and Western movies, in no particular order. — We only get fog a few times a year. …
— Good evening from Placitas, New Mexico. — Got a different colored sunset on St. Patrick’s Day, gold instead of the usual watermelon red. — Final chemo and radiation treatments on March 25. Presbyterian’s oncology staff has made it a walk in the park. Feeling pretty darn good, although I’ve got to get back in …
To all my family and friends, one of my favorite wishes: “May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his …
No place in particular to go, clouds decided to do a little dancing around the Sandias. I think KHFM 95.5 warmed me up to watch with Beethoven’s Piano Trios Opus 1, No. 1. It’s fun, circa 1793 or now. Thank you sky gods and KHFM. Or maybe it was Ellen’s chiles rellenos.
— Good morning, and thanks to all who have written me recently. Stay tuned for some photography stories below. — Ordinary dawn today, I suppose, but it looked cheery enough to get me outside with a new point-and-shoot to take a picture. Looking northeast; Santa Fe 25-or-so miles over the ridge. — I know these …
(First posted March 12, 2015. This year’s Father’s Day post — “Rain in the Pecos for Father’s Day” — is just below this Canyon Road story). My father and I were photographed in Percy’s Field, a brushy couple of acres running down from Canyon Road down to the Santa Fe River. The day was bright and …
Cooper contemplates the day ahead while waiting for me to rise. (He has already monitored the dawn from his backyard perch). And what was with these anvil-shaped, July-like clouds on March 9 on my way home from radiation? I know there probably is some common meteorological explanation. But my brain is muddled enough to flash …
— I’m ready this Monday to get back to my latest job: getting into the cancer center and joining with my medical team to kick this tumor’s butt before it kicks mine. — And, whoopee, I can feel I am recovering from the weekend’s exhaustion, the chief side effect for me of radiation and chemo, …
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