Looking over a three-leaf clover
Have you noticed? Change is in the wind. And it’s not only tumbleweeds. With trees turning green...
Read Moreby John Larson, El Defensor Chieftain | Mar 14, 2024 | Columns | 0
Have you noticed? Change is in the wind. And it’s not only tumbleweeds. With trees turning green...
Read Moreby Jessica Carranza | Editor | Mar 7, 2024 | Columns | 0
I spent the summer when I turned 21 working on a farm on the Pahoa side of the Big Island. My living quarters were a small, framed hut with walls made of netting, and my diet consisted of breadfruit, bananas, eggs, avocados,...
Read Moreby John Larson, El Defensor Chieftain | Mar 7, 2024 | Columns | 0
Come gather ‘round people in this time zone And admit that the winter around you has flown And accepting that soon you’ll awake with a moan You’re losing one hour not saving For the clocks, they are a-changing. Sorry about the...
Read Moreby John Larson, El Defensor Chieftain | Feb 29, 2024 | Columns | 0
Here I go again, revealing my Luddite tendencies, but I am awed day after day at how technology...
Read Moreby John Larson, El Defensor Chieftain | Feb 22, 2024 | Columns | 0
In case you haven’t noticed, the Civil War is not over. Last weekend, the Yanks and the Rebs were back brawling it up once again at Escondida for the annual Commemoration of the Battle of Valverde on the east bank of the Rio...
Read Moreby John Larson, El Defensor Chieftain | Feb 15, 2024 | Columns | 0
It was over 30 years ago in Santa Fe that I knew an authority on ancient wisdom teachings who once told me, “Forty is the number. If you abstain from something for forty days, you had it licked.” Time to give that a try. That...
Read Moreby John Larson, El Defensor Chieftain | Feb 8, 2024 | Columns | 0
Not to give away any spoilers, but we’re a week away from Valentine’s Day and true to form, February 14 falls smack in the middle of the cold and flu season. No kissing, please, unless your idea of true love is sharing a runny...
Read Moreby Jessica Carranza | Editor | Feb 1, 2024 | Columns | 0
When I was little my favorite dicho was “en boca cerada, no entra mosca” the direct translation is “in a closed mouth, a fly cannot enter”. My own interpretation is more like “you can’t put your foot in a closed mouth”. As a...
Read Moreby John Larson, El Defensor Chieftain | Feb 1, 2024 | Columns | 0
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The groundhog’s shadow knows. Are we turning the corner on winter? Are we on the verge of another glorious New Mexico spring? Will it be snowing cottonwood blossoms already? These...
Read Moreby John Larson, El Defensor Chieftain | Jan 25, 2024 | Columns | 0
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...
Read Moreby John Larson, El Defensor Chieftain | Jan 18, 2024 | Columns | 0
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...
Read Moreby John Larson, El Defensor Chieftain | Jan 11, 2024 | Columns | 0
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...
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