Late in the day, at the end of work, I skimmed a few of my favorite Craigslist pages online looking for treasure. About once a week, I’ll visit the Craigslist “game” pages of a few key cities just to see if there are any Avalon Hill games- my favorite board games from the past-...
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When my dad graduated from his drafting program at Oklahoma State back in the day, he wasn’t sure where he was gonna end up. He figured it would probably drawing stuff for an oil company since that was a hot regional thing. It turns out the Space Race found him when a recruiting team...
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Last weekend, I finally removed the old plants from the garden box in the backyard, and cleaned and turned the soil in the box, and then reset the watering line to its position down the middle of the box, ready to provide water to some new occupants. Tonight, I was glad to finish the...
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A few days ago, a friend on Facebook living in the South posted a famous photo to share with his local friends a picture about the place where he grew up. The photo, one I’ve stumbled across here and there over the years, always makes me stop and look at it when I see...
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Today was a day of pleasant treats. The first was unexpected, but most enjoyable, when my sister texted around 11 AM this morning and said she was in the area, and wanted to take me up on my taco lunch request a week or so ago. The request was that she join me for...
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I was born in Albuquerque and have spent most of my life living here. I’ve also spent time in most every weekday in the last nine years on I-25, driving north and south to and from work. It’s odd, then, that it was only a few years ago that I actually noticed the three...
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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 →Today has been an odd day. It’s been kind of like everything that happened today has been on “mute”. Life spins and swirls around me, but everyone and everything I know feels far away, and I can see mouths moving, but I can’t hear anything. It’s the feeling of being a bubble boy. You...
Read more →Since the last few days have been about nostalgia, yesterday’s post ended up making me think about life in middle school, and what I remembered most from my mid school years. Because we moved across town when I was 9, I ended up attending junior high at Eisenhower Middle School- home of the Eisenhower...
Read more →This last August, I enjoyed going to my 30th high school reunion, if nothing more than to see a bunch of faces that I, 30 years ago and some, used to see day in and day out at school- although, in much younger versions. That’s the thing about reunions- for those that go, everyone...
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It’s been a melancholy day all day, so after a morning of doing little, I went for what I thought would be a short walk this afternoon in the Bosque down by the river. It became a 3 hours shuffle amidst sunlight and silence, but at least it produced a few photos. The bike...
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After I drove into the lot and parked this morning, I got out of my truck and fumbled around trying to drape my backpack on my right shoulder while holding a phone and a coffee mug in one hand and a folder of papers and a lunch bag in the other, and the backpack...
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Whenever winter occasionally visits Albuquerque and dulls and bleaches the sky, I am regularly transported back to a few specific memories from my Chicago days. You know- those stills that get burned into our heads of particular moments, particular images. When I lived in the city, after my brief attempt at marriage failed, I...
Read more →It had started for me as a fantastic tribute to a hometown hero. Yesterday, on Sunday afternoon, Albuquerque threw a parade and then had a convocation on the city’s Civic Plaza to recognize Holly Holm, the seasoned Southpaw who gave invincible Ronda Rousey a shellacking in November’s UFC Bantamweight World Championship fight. Holly, as...
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I had the neat experience of meeting a local celebrity last Sunday night. It’s an experience because when you meet a celebrity, you kind of wonder if the magic of who they are in their celebrity-hood will rub off on you at all, and somehow also make you more special. Well, I don’t know...
Read more →Alberto is an older Hispanic gentleman I met a few months ago at our church. Gray-haired and slightly stooped, Alberto switches from large-rimmed reading glasses to giant-framed blackout sunglasses, depending on where he is in the sun or in the building. He is clearly not wealthy, but when he talks, you can hear he...
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