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Blog Posts about New Mexico

Living in the City of Holy Faith

October 2nd, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Travel, New Mexico Leave a Comment

Photo of a Santa Fe Church with a clear sky

Often when I’m asked, with less and less surprise, why I moved to Santa Fe in 1991, I repeat the familiar explanations…

In Travel, New Mexico Los Angeles Santa Fe

A New Beginning

September 8th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico 2 Comments

Photo of rock studio building with fence

There are many benefits to putting land in conservation easements, and it is happening more frequently all over the country.

In New Mexico River Fields Apache Mesa Santa Fe Conservation Trust

How Towns Are Divided

September 4th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico 3 Comments

Santa Fe Adobe home

Fear knows nothing about physical distance. It’s always fear of the unknown, the unfamiliar.

In New Mexico Santa Fe 12 Favorites of 2024

Labor Day 2024

September 1st, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico, Politics 1 Comment

Pullman porter photographed at Chicago Union Station, 1943

Screams of “Burn him! Burn him!” Friday night as the puppet went up in flames also burned what little is left of our understanding of the original meaning of Labor Day.

In New Mexico, Politics Labor Day Santa Fe

Goat Dressing at the Gay Rodeo

August 28th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico 1 Comment

Photo of Miss IGRA 2024

It almost seems, at least here in Santa Fe, that the presence and participation of gay people in public events have been folded into the omnipresent family culture…

In New Mexico Santa Fe LGBTQ

The Impossible Dream Renewed

August 7th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Politics, New Mexico 1 Comment

Construction worker at Apache Mesa Ranch in 2012

Disappointment and depression are hard to shake; they become a habit, protecting us from hopes that seem doomed.

In Politics, New Mexico Apache Mesa Hillary Clinton Kamala Harris Wolf Pen Branch Mill Farm

The Meaning of Work

July 3rd, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Philanthropy, New Mexico Leave a Comment

Photo of Las Trampas Church figurine

Recently I toured the Las Trampas Church where the elaborate interior, with altar screen, bultos, and other religious paintings was being skillfully restored by local craftsmen.

In Philanthropy, New Mexico New Mexico

Maybe Brett

April 21st, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico, Art 2 Comments

Photo of Dorothy Brett in New Mexico

Blessed as I always am in my work, I’ve discovered a possible new topic for a biography in the life of the British/American painter, Dorothy Brett.

In New Mexico, Art Mabel Dodge Luhan D.H. Lawrence Dorothy Brett How Daddy Lost His Ear and Other Stories

5’9″ 235 Pounds

April 10th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Women, New Mexico Leave a Comment

Carla Garrett crossing the finishing line

Girls need to learn to play rough, a lesson we may be trying to forget today with our return as mothers and grandmothers to a relentless obsession with our female offsprings’ looks.

In Women, New Mexico Sports

Thank God for the Sixties

April 7th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico Leave a Comment

Black and white photo of Woodstock attendees

When Woodstock happened in 1969, I was deep in my baby-making and raising years with a young son and two more soon to arrive, and if I’d seen this photograph I would have been horrified.

In New Mexico The Sixties

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Visiting Linda Stein

Visiting Linda Stein

March 3rd, 2025
Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.
On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

February 11th, 2024
I think memoir writing is a much more serious task than it's often considered to be. It's not informal, it's not casual. It really is the writing of

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Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

November 8th, 2024
This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
Taken by the Shawnee Reading

Taken by the Shawnee Reading

September 1st, 2024
This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.

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July 25th - July 27th

The 9th Annual Taos Writers Conference

SOMOS Salon & Bookshop
Taos MO
Oct 23
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT

How Daddy Lost His Ear – Carmichael’s Bookstore

Carmichael's Bookstore - Frankfort
Louisville KY
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Spring is full of moods here in New Mexico... I keep waiting grumpily for a spell of warm, settled weather. But not my friends the ravens. This is the weather they adore. "My Friends the Ravens": https://buff.ly/a2YelNT #Birds #BirdWatching #Hiking #TheCityDifferent

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At the farmer’s market yesterday, a family band called High Lonesome Highway performed. I don’t know if they write their own music but the wailing heart-broken sounds of old mountain melodies brought #Kentucky here to the high desert https://buff.ly/mhDqow3 #SantaFeNM

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Sallie Bingham's latest is a captivating account of ancestor's ordeal
Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

“I felt she was with me” during the process of writing the book, Bingham says. “I felt I wasn’t writing anything that would have seemed to her false or unreal.”

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