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If I did not have the day off, I probably would be dwelling on endless political back-and-forth and missing fun stuff like this travel piece from the Navajo Times, “Sheep Springs is the gateway to everywhere,” and this great 1982 photo of World Champion bull rider Charles Sampson from the National Finals Rodeo.

I know we newspaper people live in glass houses, tossing around criticism of others as we do daily. The return of favor also is daily. I take it seriously but felt overly embattled this morning — at least on my day off — when I encountered this offering from the Nieman folks at Harvard, “Journalists need to think more critically about weather maps.”

Thanks for the help, Harvard, but not today.

A New Mexican’s appeal to Tesla

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March 15, 2014

Here’s my column from the Journal, appealing to Tesla to locate its planned battery factory in New Mexico

Please note the if “as green as you say” caveat in the third graf.

Loosening the knot

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March 9, 2014

Pie for breakfast is good.

Taking your time getting out into the day is good. Having the time to read something that doesn’t involve electoral politics is good. (I have twice in the last two days run across the perplexing epithet “extreme politician” and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry). And, of course, there is a good guy named Cooper waiting to hit the trail.

The Legislature is like a knot in your rope.

Wrote around 10,000 words in 23 columns, in addition to editing and commuting.

It takes a while to shake the knot out. Then, even my coffee tastes better.

This is my explanation for having pie around. I’ll have to cinch up again for the election year.

Next water 30 days

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January 21, 2014

Dreamranch is experiencing severe drought while I deal with the New Mexico Legislature.

Find my online Legislature columns for the Albuquerque Journal here.

Notes from The Murray

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January 4, 2014

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Daydream No. 23,501 — I retire, rent a room on the top floor of The Murray in Livingston, Montana, and write people notes on The Murray’s great notepads. I would read books, get my Lena Endre fix on Netflix and eat wherever fine biscuits and gravy were being served. I might want to ride into the mountains, instead of walk, if I could fine someone else to keep the horses and do all the work. Maybe an occasional drive up through White Sulphur to Helena to see family. I would not catch and release. I would turn my fish over to the chef at The Murray or a friend with a smoker.

A prayer for politics, children and free-roaming horses

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January 2, 2014

The latest from the paycheck job:

(http://www.abqjournal.com/329582/abqnewsseeker/a-prayer-for-politics-children-and-freeroaming-horses.html)

Xmas

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December 25, 2013

a1_thumbnail My favorite Journal flag ever.

Solstice

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December 21, 2013

My temperature gadget read only 39 degrees on our evening walk, but my feet got cold in my regular boots and even snow-loving Cooper seemed to trot as we turned toward home.

Long day at the computer on this shortest day of the year. Walk helped shake it off. I’m going to unfocus even more with the Swedish version of Wallander on Netflix. I especially like the part where Lena Endre moves in next door.