I’m always a little nervous before my first reading from a new book, so far untried by readers although with two wonderful reviews, some of my best (Library Journal, Publishers’ Weekly) but without the surge of comments that gathers slowly, in the media and in the form of email from strangers and friends, over a period of months.
Blog Posts about New Mexico
The Fire Next Time?
“The Las Conchas fire, started on June 26 by a downed power line, has been near-apocalyptic in its dimensions and its danger.”
The Fire Next Time
For us here in Santa Fe, the worst has passed, since we are directly across the valley from Los Alamos and therefore most disturbed by heavy smoke and the terrifying vision of huge plumes rising thousand of feet into the air.
Extra This Just In
An Open Letter to the Santa Fe New Mexican in response to their June 16 editorial “Lannan credibility suffers self-injury“ BRAVO TO THE NEW MEXICAN FOR RUNNING A STRONG EDITORIAL
Where is your Cynefin?
On the New Mexico Wildfires Here in the mountains north-east of Santa Fe, the winds are carrying more smoke up from the Wallow Fire, down on the Arizona border; the
WARNING: CENSORSHIP AT WORK
The interlacing of public and private, as Gloria Steinem famously explained, is choking individuals who attempt to speak out and crippling this country.
Memorial Day
Does anyone visit cemeteries anymore? Here in Santa Fe, the huge Rosario Cemetery, dedicated to the war dead, is ablaze with small American flags planted in front of each identical
Women, Dogs and Mountains
Most of the lone hikers I meet, often accompanied by one or two dogs, are women, young, old and in between.
Santa Fe Farmers’ Market
We don’t plant, or spin, or weave, we buyers, but at least we are able to appreciate the labor of those who do.
Girls, Ponies and Horses
Galloping across a dusty plain may be the best possible preparation for dealing with the complexities of negotiating a woman’s life in the twenty-first century.