As always with a big new project, the day of reckoning comes at last.
I Want It to Be Said
By now we all know that the discrimination that afflicts one group afflicts all of us.
The Best Photos of the Year
These are my favorite photos of the last year, with links to their blog posts (if any)—Sallie Little brother made up for Christmas play, my next book…: This Writer’s Life
Sleepless in Santa Fe
The excitement of the season plus a few flush-inducing angers led to one of my rare sleepless nights, here in the mountains north of town.
The Blue Bubble
Our blue bubble here in New Mexico may be where we are all heading as we fight our way our of this crisis.
Radical Feminists, Angry Indians and Illegal Mexicans
These days we are hearing language that is the equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded movie theater, language that whether the speaker is aware of it or not, incites to violence.
Chaco
I loved the baldness of my visit last weekend to Chaco: sleeping on the ground, during two nights in May when the temperature dropped into the thirties, was an ordeal of amazing benefits.
A Passion for Houses
This house has reigned on a leafy corner of a beautiful street, a few blocks from the Santa Fe Plaza, for 150 years, inhabited by a distinguished family.
Hagiography: The Copied Pot, The Repeated Story
In choosing invention, I chose my own view, my own voice, as I chose the woven forms of the marble statue I bought at Indian Market from a young Navajo sculptor.
Something Has Gone Wrong
Something has gone wrong with this country, and I don’t know how or exactly when.