In the middle of all the horrors in the U.S. Capitol, we need to remember that much more significant events are happening.
It Takes a Village..
Since I’ve never lived in a village, this statement, made by Hilary Clinton a while ago, never had much meaning for me until a now.
Firebrand in the Trojan Horse Part Two
Sometimes the Trojan Horse is actually a country or some part of a country in the grip of intolerance.
Firebrand in the Trojan Horse and the Half Step Strategy
I’ve had the singular good fortune to meet this past week a most remarkable young woman, Mara Zepeda.
New Mexican Women Claimed the Right to Vote Almost One Hundred Years Ago
We are at a curious moment today, in terms of suffrage and of women’s rights generally.
Dancing for the New Year
I’ll be dancing in the New Year—out with the old, in with the new, and hope springing eternal.
The Indignities of Age
I think I’d rather fall down in the street, which would be easy to do today in snowy, icy Santa Fe—at its most beautiful, and, like everything beautiful, somewhat treacherous.
Christmas Eve in Santa Fe
The ritual of planting candles to light the way to church for midnight mass on Christmas Eve was brought first to Mexico by the conquistadores.
Meritocrazy
Now that we have it all, what will we do with it?
Exquisite Aloneness
There is an avidity, even an arrogance, and a superb energy I sometimes detect in those who live alone…