Tonight’s adventure was trying to be a handyman when I am so not wired that way. Anyways, about two weeks ago the ice maker in the fridge quit producing eyes, and for that to happen in a house without AC is a pretty rough situation. Last weekend, my friend Brian came over to walk...
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I don’t usually just post food stuff on the old blog here, but today I had a truly remarkable meal at the Owl Cafe. For lunch, a few people from the office were heading up to the restaurant, and it sounded good on a sluggish Friday. With the invite, I had to join the...
Read more →Today, when I blinked, a fire fell, a cataclysmic flash of fear circled the earth and flattened fields, and brushed the broad plains red and black. The globe pitched sideways, every words became gobble, and my neighbors, glassy-eyed and guarded, fed on the hollow half-truths of hate and hurt. Sweep, Spirit, flare of Mercy,...
Read more →He was thirty-one with yellowing teeth and yellowing finger tips and he did not have any tattoos on his forearms, but he did have some thin, stylish, expensive round glasses perched on his narrow nose, over a thin face and scrub-covered chin. His drab blonde hair was short and a tad bit oily, except...
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Tonight was the last night of the summer screenwriting class I took with Marc Calderwood through UNM Continuing Education, and like each of the others, it was educational and entertaining. After Marc took a little time to recap some of the big thoughts we were supposed to take away from the course, he then...
Read more →I am nearing 50 now, and it can seem like a precarious place. Besides health concerns and a growing sensitivity to the effects of mortality, there are also the questions that surface about meaning and purpose, and personal productivity as you head into your later years. It’s the season in life where everything you’ve...
Read more →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...
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