I’m not the one I thought I’d be, so strong and full of certainty, an always kind and helpful man, a willing heart and helping hand. Time has a way of dulling down, of rending sight and shorting sound, of stealing spirit and hiding hope, of twisting capable into cope, and I, one time...
Read more →When it comes to public conversations, I’m pretty much the guy who avoids talking politics and religion. Politics I largely avoid because I take a dim view of most politicians and their trade. I feel it is rare that one interested in a political career enters the fray with a clear comport of integrity...
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I thought it was a good idea at the time. After all, the shoes I was wearing were probably 5 years old, and the stitching was coming out of the upper sections. There was a hole clear through the sole by the ball of my left one. There were new air conditioning slits on...
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I was grateful this afternoon when my sister texted. She had come across a good deal on steaks earlier, and wondered if I’d like to join her and her family for dinner. Steaks? Umm, yeah. “Bring your chiles.” The ones that had just come off the plants in my backyard. Yes, ma’am. After work,...
Read more →Today the Cubs lost the final game of their series this week with the San Francisco Giants. They lost two out of three to the not-so-good Giants this week. They lost two-out-of-three to the NL East leading Washington Nationals. Their hottest bat, NL Player of the Week Willson Contrares, pulled a hamstring today running...
Read more →This bit is about one of the 25 free and fraternizing dogs roaming about the plaza at Taos Pueblo yesterday. I had bought a loaf of bread by a vendor at the pueblo, and she had put it in a plastic zip lock bag for me, which I “carried” by tucking the top into...
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I appreciated getting to spend the last day or so with my sister and her family. After roading up to Monument Valley in Utah on Friday for a Saturday explore, I left from the park around 12 or so and trekked east, through Shiprock, Farmington, Chama, and Tres Piedras to land in Red River...
Read more →Not more than 15 minutes earlier, I had been standing at the geographic center of the Southwest (as regarded by some with geographic proclivities)- the Four Corners Monument- the only place in the United States where four states met at a symbolic point. When I was there, after waiting in a short line to...
Read more →Between yesterday and today, I drove over 700 miles and took over 600 pictures. My destination yesterday was Monument Valley, Utah, and most of the pictures I took today were from that scenic spot. Tonight, I downloaded the pictures from my camera- and upon review, they mostly all appeared heavily tinted red. I am...
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The sunrise over the Sandia Mountains on my forty-ninth birthday. And on the next year of my life. Was glad to share breakfast with my folks this morning. I am heading up to Monument Valley to hopefully get a few good pics this evening. That is the hope. It was a nice start to...
Read more →The deal was supposed to be that once a day, every day this year, I would sit down for twenty minutes and write something. Whatever I write doesn’t have to be ground-breaking or star-making, but my hope was that it would be mildly meaningful, or somewhat substantial. I’m finding every evening though, when it...
Read more →I went to the fourth week of Marc Calderwood’s Basic Screenwriting class last night, and again, for the fourth week, I really enjoyed it. It’s not a heavy, dogmatic class, and it is also not a light collection of film reviews. Marc makes it a balance of focused instruction time, topical discussions, light exercises,...
Read more →It’s another night where I don’t have much to say. It is already 10 PM, and most any useful information I had to share is evaporated. I’ll see what I can do here. 1. I love GoodReads. 2. I need to see the optometrist, because I am also due to get some new contacts,...
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Today, it was a Monday. And on top of being a Monday, about 4 this afternoon while we were at work downtown, it started to rain on our locale heavily, and that little rain event hung around for a good long while. Thankfully, it cleared up before 7 PM so that the Isotopes baseball...
Read more →The truth is, I couldn’t see the road you all went down. I wish I had. It would have made life easier in a lot of ways. And I probably would have made a lot of people happier as well. But I’m not prone to efficiency, to excellency, to excess. I never have been....
Read more →It’s a weird thing. In a week I turn 49, and via social media, I find I am still looking for approval from people in my past. From old high school classmates who don’t really know me, to a grand extent. From old church acquaintances that I was around, but never very close to,...
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