After a quick trip to Kansas last weekend to partake of the annual autumn Arkalalah Festival and to celebrate an aunt’s milestone birthday, I came back with a cold. I muddled through Monday. I coughed through the work day today. Still, caught in my constant war to try and figure out how to use...
Read more →Walking through Walmart tonight, I passed by an employee who smelled like cigarette smoke and tobacco, and for a moment, I was small and back in Kansas, inching up the thinly-slabbed concrete sections of the walk from the parking port behind the house in the alley towards the tall white home. The air is...
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At dinner last night with Mom and Dad (Papa Felipe’s- our usual), we somehow got onto the topic of trains while we scarfed down our favorite New Mexican meals. It was because Mom and Dad had had some guests in town the last week, and we had been talking about the events of their...
Read more →When I was a boy, for some reason Aunt Ruth liked me. Aunt Ruth was, in reality, my father’s aunt, but to the rest of our family, that was her name, and she fit a bit of the Welton mold: she was a strong-minded and strong-willed woman who was fiercely independent and, common to...
Read more →This morning, I needed to write, and I wasn’t sure about what, so I have sat here looking around in a little coffee shop downtown, across from the UNM campus. It’s a converted house that is loosely filled with mix-and-match tables and chairs. The wood floors are nice. The walls are white or soft...
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I was delighted to see my cousin Kevin Scruggs’s company, Bro Corp United, had this video posted on its Facebook timeline today. Evidently, Terry Bradshaw hosts a show called “Today in America” which is billed as “the first show of its genre… that’s geared towards the educated, affluent viewer… Today in America successfully blends...
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