Stand Up and Be Counted: On Why the Census Matters
In 1962 upon arriving in New Mexico from Iowa at 15, it was like being transported to Disneyland...
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Diary or Journal? On Doing Something Worth Writing About
It was time for me to do my Mouse and I was about to regale you with another squirrel story; this...
Read More On shots and inoculations, boredom and getting older
How bored are you? You have watched television or your computer for six or seven months now. Your...
Read More On 100 years of women voting, and what we think about it
Voting is a privilege, a right and an obligation. A hundred years ago women were not citizens of...
Read More On the Joys of Restaurants, and Their Tents
We had become like spoiled children in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” You doubt me? When we...
Read More Do you remember Edgewood’s C.O.W. awards?
Yesterday I went into the laundry room where we have a washer and dryer, a freezer, and a huge...
Read More Back to School, Then and Now
I miss the smell of colorful Crayolas and the sound of white copy paper ripped open for a new...
Read More Water in New Mexico, a Cautionary Tale
I came to New Mexico in 1962 from Iowa with my Mom, Dad, brother, Arch, 8, and my little sister...
Read More Taking a road trip to Vegas – the real Las Vegas
We are not allowed to eat inside restaurants any more or gather in large groups. OK, I can happily...
Read More That time I got to yell ‘Stop the presses!’ this week
The Midwest has tornados to fear, the East Coast has hurricanes, the deep South fears alligators...
Read More Comics, for the Eye, Mind, and Soul
For Christmas, my brother, Arch, gave me four comics from 1948, the year after I was born. He also...
Read More From Dante’s Inferno to Monty Python, or the DMV
“Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here,” is a sign for those on their way to the “Inferno,” a poem by...
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