John Larson, El Defensor Chieftain

I got an email from a couple who were looking for the best place to spend their retirement and wanted the lowdown on Magdalena, one of the places they were looking at. I can’t remember exactly how I replied – short of...

I’ve made a decision to skip over the rest of this month. I mean, January is just a trial run. Not that I have anything against the two-faced Roman god; it’s just that I’m of the conviction that winter should be over once we’ve...

I’m not predicting anything ever again, at least about the weather. I’ll leave that embarrassment up to the Old Farmers of the Almanac fame. They use the tried and true method of tracking sunspots. And perhaps a wooly worm...

I don’t know how many times people have told me that 2023 went by as fast as a jackrabbit or as slow as the tortoise that beat it. Looking back on the previous year, one tries to grasp what events were meaningful or memorable....

Where has the time gone? I guess it’s back there somewhere in some of my Facebook posts. All I have to do is scroll down and it’s all there, trapped in cyberspace, although it looks like all I post anymore are my Wordle scores....

Where has the time gone? The last few weeks have been rush-rush-rush, but here we are just four days before Christmas and it feels like everything is slowing down. Since the hubbub of Thanksgiving weekend the days have crept by,...