These days, when I am toodling down Spain Road from Juan Tabo and my truck passes her old street, I often forget to look, like I used to. Then, I would take a glance to see if her garage door was open, to see if her car was out in the driveway, to see...
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This weekend I needed to get out for a bit, and earlier in the week, someone in the Facebook “American Southwest” group gave me my excuse. Curiously enough, they had posted an image of a page from an old NM travel guide (1969’s “101 Trips in the Land of Enchantment ” by Betty Woods)...
Read more →When my Aunt Margaret passed in the spring of 2020, there was some unreality to it. The world was on hold at the time, in a waiting room, clock-watching. With the COVID virus stoking fear in anything broadcasting anything, and consequently, in everyone subject to media, workplaces were mostly closed. Daily statistics related to...
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About 8:30 last Sunday evening, I was weaving my way through other walkers on Wacker Drive- which, as a riverfront path, is arguably one of the busiest pedestrian routes in Chicago on a summer weekend evening- when a long-haired and bearded young man in a canvas jacket and blue jeans strode passed me, speaking...
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Earlier this year I decided I wanted to return to Chicago and, once a resident long ago, spend some time in the city strictly as a tourist. I was grateful that I could take time off last week to do it (note to self: planning ahead is a good thing). I ended up flying...
Read more →This evening, for birthday 54, I went over to my folks’ house and ate dinner with them so we could watch the Cubs play- the second game of a double header in which they would lose both games. Later in the evening, after the baseball flop, we sat and talked a bit. “Do you...
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Traditionally, each July 4th, I’ve found myself yearning to get out and find somewhere to visit or a trail to hike. This year was no different, except I am not sure of the mental state of this docile midlifer on Independence Day when, on Monday morning, I arose fairly early, wavered a while about...
Read more →That time I sat down to try and write and realized I am better at silence
Read more →I enjoyed going to dinner with my parents tonight. Olive Garden is always enjoyable, if anything for the salad. But it is also time out with Mom and Dad. We chit-chatted on a myriad of things, and somehow wandered across old movies and TV shows, and that led me to mention that Cindy Williams...
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The Gathering of Nations Pow Wow, perhaps the premiere intertribal assembly for North American Indians, reconvened this weekend here in Albuquerque, and for me it was a first time to attend this event. I basically entered Tingley Coliseum and made like a paparazzi, hovering near the main floor (like Tim P. would do) and...
Read more →I was visiting YouTube the other night to browse some videos on landscape photography- like I frequently do when I am looking for some motivation or inspiration- and I can across this guy and this particularly encouraging video. Pat said, basically, “I’m a systems guy and I’ll give you 4 suggestions to help you...
Read more →the secret to doing better is to look where you are look where you are and decide where you want to go if it is higher, go up if it is lower, go down if it is back, go behind if it is forward, take a step you will have moved to not stay...
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