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....

Here comes the new year, the window of time when we all get a pass on the lies we tell ourselves and others. Yep, I’m talking about New Year’s resolutions. A new survey from Forbes Health released this year revealed that the...

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,...

I don’t know if you heard this, but the number one song on Billboard Magazine’s Hot 100 last week was Brenda Lee’s 1958 record Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree. Imagine that. A 13-year-old girl who sang a pop song 65 years ago,...

When you live in a small village you can’t get away with anything. The last time I lived in Magdalena I had some very naughty milk goats who had the tendency to get over any barricade I made and roam the village. Most of the...

If you were born this week, you are a Sagittarius, and your horoscope says for your good fortune you must shop. A lot. How can you not? It’s in the stars. Curiously, according to my ephemeris, the same goes for all sun signs....

As I crumple up old El Defensor editions to start fires at night, out of respect I like to make sure it’s a paper I’ve read before I burn it. I know it’s silly and often inconvenient but that’s why my preference is to get...