Often when I’m asked, with less and less surprise, why I moved to Santa Fe in 1991, I repeat the familiar explanations…
Blog Posts about New Mexico
A New Beginning
There are many benefits to putting land in conservation easements, and it is happening more frequently all over the country.
How Towns Are Divided
Fear knows nothing about physical distance. It’s always fear of the unknown, the unfamiliar.
Labor Day 2024
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.
Goat Dressing at the Gay Rodeo
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…
The Impossible Dream Renewed
Disappointment and depression are hard to shake; they become a habit, protecting us from hopes that seem doomed.
The Meaning of Work
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.
Maybe Brett
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.
5’9″ 235 Pounds
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.
Thank God for the Sixties
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.