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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

My first exposure to non-traditional ideas on art came from Yoko Ono, unlike most Beatle fans I was fascinated with her work, it was weird, confusing, random and sometimes really “bad”. She managed to break all the rules I...

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....