so glad I brought this coffee today like every day I am at work the browser is open what are the Cubs doing why did Fowler leave didn’t he want to win another one Mom loves Bryant that’s funny because most women love Bryant the lean MVP hitter Rizzo is still my favorite love...
Read more →When I joined the GoodReads book community a few years back, I discovered the website’s Reading Challenge app at one point, and decided when the new year rolled around, I would hop in and set a goal. Basically, GoodReads lets you set a goal of how many books you are going to read within...
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It’s Sunday evening, and as I look back on the weekend, I did a lot of what I often do, which is not much. I did enjoy watching two of three Lobo baseball games played against the Air Force Academy up in Colorado Springs. The scores of the three games, all won by UNM,...
Read more →It’s Saturday morning, and I am out of creativity for this week, so for today’s post, it’s just “whatever” stuff this morning. I tried to be a little more creative in my writing exercises this week, and as with most of my writings, I wasn’t super thrilled with the results. I started another short...
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In 1351, a year after the Black Death finally let go of the village of Nérac and its surrounding estates in southwest France, a gentle young monk named Colinus went through the ravaged region and collected every orphan he could find, bringing them back to live by his brothers in Orphan Hall. In a...
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Transcription, Captain’s Log, USS Bozeman, NCC-1941 “Captain’s Log, Stardate 41114.4. We are running at warp 6 to rendezvous with the science vessel SS Brezhnev which has been routinely monitoring the collapse of a yellow midget star into a white dwarf. Unfortunately, our efforts to approach the craft and system have been marred by the...
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Last Saturday, as I meandered south from Albuquerque, I ended up driving the main drag through Socorro, New Mexico, and as I passed through an intersection, I looked to my right and saw the face and bell towers of a mission church. I am unable to resist the pull of such New Mexican cathedrals,...
Read more →Tonight was the last class in Dr. Gish’s four week course, “Writing Short Stories”, and I was the worst prepared for a class I have been in a long time. Luckily, it was not a course of great academic consequence- I was supposed to show up and learn, for myself. Still, I didn’t read...
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This post is a followup to yesterday’s bit on the Magdalena Village library, a.k.a. the Depot. If you step across the street from the Magdalena Library, you face the village’s hardware store and HVAC specialist. Clark Brown owns Eagle Hardware Supply, but if you try to find his business by the building, just look...
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With some free time this weekend, I headed south on Saturday, and after a short stop in Socorro, I ended up going on over and spending some time in Magdalena, NM. Not knowing anything about the place, I left the village with a handful of interesting photographs and a tidbits about the village. What...
Read more →I have a lot of memories from that one trip. Mostly, because it was the trip of my life. I remember planning it, us boyhood buddies, us distant friends, acting as if five years hadn’t passed since we last talked, as if we weren’t adults now, grown and changed and different people. I remember...
Read more →I touched on this before, but for me, that’s part of my struggle. Whenever I write, I struggle with details. While I was writing an my account of yesterday’s Plaza encounter, Tim wrote another, which you can read here. What stands out for me in comparing the two versions is Tim’s attention to details....
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At about noon today, Tim asked me if I was ready to go, and I pretty much was. He had asked me earlier in the day if I wanted to go over to the Civic Plaza across from the Convention Center- a few blocks from work- and “make joy”, meaning, let him take a...
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It’s been a mixed bag today. It was warm out and the sky was blue this morning, and then it grew colder and gray as the afternoon advanced. I came home from work and turned on the gas fireplace so the cats could curl up in front of it, and then I sat down...
Read more →Tonight was class 3 of the UNM Continuing Education course, “Writing Short Stories”, with Robert Gish. As usual, as soon as Dr. Gish entered the classroom, his anecdotes began, followed by a barrage of review questions about the last two sessions. Naturally, his questions were meant to dredge up in my elastic brain correct...
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There are a number of times I have marveled that I am not yet dead, and tonight is one of them. A week ago, the sister of a colleague brought in an order sheet for Girl Scout cookies. Her daughter has to sell them, she brings the sheet to the office, I buy some...
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