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 …
My pressure cooker makes life easier when it comes to cooking beans, which of course I had to do today for my 75th birthday. I had a birthday lunch at The Range in Bernalillo earlier in the week, thanks to Lori and Mike, but there is something earthy about making beans at home on your …
My father, Bob Robertson, 12/18/28 — 11/12/95. Canyon Road and Hamilton Mesa, Santa Fe and Pecos Wilderness, 1970s. Dad, stepmother Pat and Mus heading down the Rito Valdez to Mora Flats. He got to relax a little after newspapering and the Peace Corps, before family care reeled him back again.
Soon after I got carried away tweeting about water this morning, a fellow tweeter in Santa Fe spotted smoke rising from the Pecos Wilderness in the Sangre de Cristo mountains. I was still savoring coffee in Placitas, watching birds and enjoying the first morning in nearly a week free of wildfire smoke from southern Arizona …
The last thing I read last night, sitting up late, waiting out the wind, was Larry Calloway’s account of his trip with a daughter to Mississippi. He called it “A Tale of Two Stairways.” The superficial reason for the title was his discussion of two circular staircases. But Larry usually climbs higher. The staircases both …
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 …
What’s the best treatment for your cast-iron cooking ware? I say bacon. Cooking bacon in them, I mean. Slowly, at a low temperature. It keeps them well-seasoned and rust-free. Soap never sullies their blackened sheen. All that scary no-stick stuff isn’t necessary if you’ve got a decades-old No. 8 seasoned with bacon grease. There’s no …
I dreamed a famous billionaire real estate developer appeared before the Santa Fe historical styles committee to seek approval of his proposed Torreón de Billy the Kid Hotel and Casino in an old neighborhood near the Roundhouse. The New York developer, who touted Hispanic influences on his Florida resort, wore a Billy the Kid-like hat. …
You know your day is off to a rough start when the sky looks like the horizon in Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” and the Twitter dude who calls himself Zozobra announces he has hired you as his press secretary. As I said in earlier responses on Twitter to @Old_Man_Gloom, water man @jfleck and others, the …
After reading this morning that there is such a thing in Santa Fe as a blue corn lavender doughnut, this is as close as I could come to having my own Santa Fe bagel down here in Placitas.
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