It happens every summer during these years of drought, and we should be thankful it didn’t happen until last week…
Blog Posts about New Mexico
Smoke
Privilege and the Privy
If there is any excuse for privilege—and I don’t think there’s any hope of eliminating it in the near or long future—it’s that inheritors have an obligation to preserve land.
Loving Indians
One of the saddest effects of COVID for me is the closing of our neighboring eighteen northern pueblos, especially as we are in the summer season of harvest dances.
Hats
The Peruvian hat makers shown in this film made by Erica Nguyen, a fellow at the Women’s International Study Center here in Santa Fe, are part of an ancient tradition.
Summer Evening
After supper on these warm evenings in Santa Fe, my dog Pip usually insists on a walk.
Bear
A few years ago when I built my studio on the edge of the Santa Fe Watershed in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, I was visited by two bears.
Puttin’ On the Ritz
That’s what we all need right here (wherever here is) and right now.
L’esprit de L’escalier
We took our usual shortcut through an open field where an old house used to stand…
Let’s Dance
Why dance now, when we are all wrapped to a greater or lesser degree in gloom, even despair, with worse times ahead?
Eat the Rich
Where are we to turn for sustenance, the well-off as well as the less comfortable?