On why we love Thanksgiving and the holidays
When this is printed, we will all have eaten the turkey or turducken or the tofurkey. What ever we have eaten, it will require our…
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On art, or ‘patches for the heart’ on display in Edgewood
This weekend an open house was held in the Edgewood Courthouse for the one-year anniversary of the Justice Art League. Any artist from the Estancia…
Driving to Florida to meet fighter pilots and their wives
Most folks would agree, when they are involved with a new situation where you don’t know anyone, it leaves you with a feeling of anticipation….
On Downton Abbey, lords and ladies, and being star struck
We never go to a movie at the theaters anymore, well hardly ever. Last year we saw a movie made about World War I produced…
That time we got conned by a cat
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a movie with Michael Caine and Steve Martin, where they made their living fooling rich, lonely old ladies. Basically, they wanted…
On the age-old question: Do you hear that?
“Do you hear that?” In our family, we have a hearing problem. It is genetic. My grandmother, mother, both aunts and my brother all needed…
Ruminations on the old question, ‘Where’s the meat?’
Last week the Greater Edgewood Area Chamber held its third annual Chamber Chuckwagon to kick off Cowboy Days—a month of events around the area coinciding…
On Phones—the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
My grandmother, Irene Williams, lived to be 100 and passed in 1996. I asked her what she thought were the two most important inventions in…
On beginnings, both old and new
An Old Beginning: When I drove up to the house 9 miles out of Estancia, I was met by two very friendly dogs, one full…
New Mexicans visit Hawaii, or we think we’ve got tourists!
Last week my husband Bill and I spent eight days in Hawaii, where I turned 72 and learned to do the hula. (I won’t demonstrate…