20 Favorites of 2022
I’m using the “Top 20 Posts” to intrigue you and solicit your response. I thought the list was surprising.
Was it surprising to you? — Sallie
Volare
After graduating from college and becoming engaged with a ring that was too expensive, I was spending a month of a sort of pre-honeymoon with the man I was going to marry in the fall.
Truth and Reconciliation
I want to draw my readers’ attention to the extraordinary visit of Pope Francis to Canada to apologize personally for the destruction of thousands of Native children over the course of two centuries.
Thread Dresses
Just as I was beginning to feel discouraged came a revelation as I was getting a cup of coffee at my neighborhood hangout here in Santa Fe.
Apache Mesa Ranch Resolved
The ranch is not really for us human beings with our thin skins and our need for comfort.
Digging Out The Roots
Times change. Time passes. A younger generation stands to inherit. One of its members challenged her ancient relative, the present owner, with what she feels is his guilt because of slavery.
Mary Jane Colter and the Making of the Southwest
There’s nothing to equal to results of our ability to collaborate, and to remember and record our foremothers whom the powers that be usually neglect.
Giving Thanks
I will be giving a special thanks for those who read these thoughts, and whose mysterious presence in my life keeps me going.
Margaret Erskine: “Taken by Indians”
I started writing Margaret’s story, based on a brief memoir she dictated to her nephew many years after her taking…
Small Potatoes
One of those rare fortuitous meetings that make life so interesting occurred in the fall in a hallway at the New York Society Library, my home away from home in that city.
The Virgin Goes Into Labor
Oh the ghosts of Christmas past! We all have them. May yours wear holly wreaths and drag chains of tinkling bells if they have to drag chains at all.