I’ve had the singular good fortune to meet this past week a most remarkable young woman, Mara Zepeda.
Blog Posts about New Mexico
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.
Rich Kids
New Mexico has been a blessing for me, which may explain (but not excuse) the fact that I had very little idea of the dire condition of many of our children.
Dogs of Santa Fe
We love dogs, we spoil dogs, sometimes we give dogs the love we can no longer afford to give human beings, after so many losses and disappointments.
Changing My Mind
Seldom has a book caused me to change my mind… but D.H. Lawrence’s Sea and Sardinia changed me.
Ode to Cerrillos
How blessed I am to leave near a little spot in the desert that deserves, and is given, its very own ode.
Spanish Market and the Triumph of Craft
These staring female saints, these progressing pilgrims, are as far as can be imagined from the images in European churches—or even in the “white” churches of the northeast.
Flamenco: The I I Do Not Wish to Lose
The whole tragic history of Spain seemed contained in this music and these movements.