Traditionally, each July 4th, I’ve found myself yearning to get out and find somewhere to visit or a trail to hike. This year was no different, except I am not sure of the mental state of this docile midlifer on Independence Day when, on Monday morning, I arose fairly early, wavered a while about...
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I awoke early this morning having considered last night taking a drive up to the Valle Caldera to check on the trees, but at 6AM, that particular urge left me. I went back to bed and enjoyed another hour and a half of needed sleep. The morning passed in gross misappropriation. By 1, I...
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It was nice this morning to have my folks call and say they were on their way out of town, up to Santa Fe, to take a stroll through the city’s annual Indian Market. “Would you like to go?” I thought about it for about two minutes and said yes. They turned around to...
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If you head north from Albuquerque toward Santa Fe and stay on I-25, bypassing the capitol city, and then take the Glorieta exit, you are headed towards the town of Pecos. Once you are in Pecos, make a left at the main intersection onto NM 63 and roll past the Catholic Church, up the...
Read more →Today is Easter Sunday, which as a Christian I celebrate for the resurrection of Jesus, the foundational assertion and centerpiece of my faith- that God sent His Son into the world to die as a sacrifice for human sin, so that in His resurrection from the dead, Death would be dealt a mortal blow...
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