This winter we have the best snow in the West outside of Wolf Creek in southern Colorado which benefits from its high pass. We also have the nicest people, the warmest sun, the stiffest winds, and the most amazing views over the Rio Grande Valley, all the way up to the Colorado border.
Sitting
For a restless woman, sitting is always a challenge… yet I believe the ten minutes I sit every morning literally save my life.
New Year’s Day
I am wishing all of you, friends, acquaintances and strangers, who are kind enough to read these thoughts, the most beneficial, peaceful and fruitful new year—a cold winter with lots of snow, a spring full of bloom.
A Memore of Christmas Past
Nostalgia is not my strong suit. Most family rituals, in my experience, long outlive their usefulness… Fortunately, there are exceptions.
Tear ‘Em Down, Slats and All
It was a revelation to me when I was lured back to Kentucky and saw the reverence people there felt for old houses—and how hard they would work to preserve them.
Sweet Honey In The Rock: The Other Side of Victimization
These women were so large… so encompassing in their warmth and passion, even for their audience of white women, that I was stunned—this is the way we can all go, I thought, if we have the courage, we who are all hurt to some greater or lesser degree by the cruelties and injustices of this society.
The Gospel According to Nance
Nance, and her garden in the barren border of the trailhead parking lot, is another uplifting example of our ability to both create, and to hold on, to see possibilities in the sand…
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.
Judy Chicago, Again and Not Again
One of the many things I’ve always admired about Judy Chicago is that she constantly reinvents herself.
Just Walk
As the level of anxiety rises around us, for reasons that are palpable and known to all, our efforts to retain even a modicum of calm become more urgent, and more difficult.