I am learning a lot today and getting great help in aligning historical contrasts, conflicts and mysteries. I am finishing New Mexico-Colorado writer Larry Calloway’s new book, Shaking Rio Arriba Down – The Courthouse Raid (Palmetto Publishing) … and taking a side trip to one of its references, historian Michael Welsh, https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr/vol62/iss4/4 And from the …
It’s tough being Albuquerque, although it often shines at the same time. Here we are in early October with the softer fall light sharpening some of the clearest days of the year. The balloon fiesta is in full swing, with thousands of visitors in town, and then the Albuquerque Journal greets you on Sunday, with …
The rain washed the sky. Time for a walk.
While pondering this morning whether to cook bacon for breakfast, my mind was diverted to coinciding events in New Mexico: the Good Friday pilgrimage to Chimayo; the Trinity Site opening at White Sands; the full moon coming. Is New Mexico unusual? All I’m sure of is that the skies seem clearer here. You know how …
A hundred decisions during my 65 years led to me stay in New Mexico. But it started with blue sky, red earth and the brush of the wind through the piñons. I first lived in Las Vegas, New Mexico, after a Norman Rockwell start in central Ohio. Then it was a brief stay in stolid …
It takes a long time to clear your head of election-year crud. You’re like a hard-pushed car engine with fouled plugs, oil change long overdue. I awoke twice last night with nightmares about imagined newspaper mistakes. But I am hoping my mind can return to it’s briefly euphoric state just before nodding off on Nov. …
Life goes on in New Mexico: Woke to the sound of a breeze in the piñons and junipers — to my ears distinctly New Mexico and one of the reasons I live here. Brewed coffee — thanking goodness for continued operation of the family-run Whiting Coffee Company on Osuna in Albuquerque — squared myself in …
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Even by Florida standards, the arrests of three suburban Miami mayors on corruption charges within a month were a source of dismay, if not exactly a surprise.” This report from The New York Times this morning reminds me of the tendency of New Mexicans to beat ourselves up while not recognizing how much …
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