The long weekend of July 14th through July 18th was a happy reunion for our family. On Friday evening, we drove to and converged on an Airbnb lodge off of the fifth green of the golf course in Angel Fire, New Mexico, which would be our home until Tuesday morning. It was a happy...
Read more →Easter Weekend was a good and mellow experience this year. I didn’t do much on Saturday, which was okay, because I had a dull headache all day- a carryover from Friday night. The Lobo baseball team played a weekend series with a good Missouri State team from Thursday through Saturday, and afer the Lobos...
Read more →Tonight was the second of two evenings of celebrations for the Chicago Cubs this week. On Monday, the Dodgers came to town… to sit through the Cubs banner raising ceremony before the ballgame in the evening. The banner raising event was well done, as one would expect when celebrating a first World Series championship...
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...
Read more →It was a good Christmas this year. Christmas Eve, I was happy to spend some time with my extended family, Wendy and Eric and Zach, along with Eric’s brother and their collective horde of dachshunds and dachshund derivatives. I had hoped to watch something Christmasy with someone this Christmas, and they came through with “It’s A...
Read more →It seems perfectly suitable to me to take a moment in this first post to think about the monument which lies in a birthday- especially when you have been faced with the prospects of your own end. Today is my friend Tim’s birthday. On this day some fifty-plus years ago he came into this...
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