I watched a video yesterday of Steve Jobs telling the 2005 graduating class at Stanford, “You’ve got to find what you love. ... Your time is limited, so don't waste it…

NOB HILL--So you must think it is easy to get white people to come to our fair state!  Not so.  Just ask Vendor Inc., the company tasked with coming up with an ad campaign for the Department of Tourism.  Oh it is easy enough to snag dark-skinned Hispanics,…

In the spirit of trying to generate some discussions and rev up the DCF boards, I'm putting up this link:

http://www.cnet.com/profile/ericcmack/?tag=mncol;title

That connects to a 5-part series by Eric Mack on CNet (tech-news web site) which discusses some of the issues experienced in rural New Mexico, Penasco to be precise, in trying to get a workable internet connection in his new location in…

The Rio Grande Community Farm is proud to announce that we have partnered with the Village of Los Ranchos to provide the 2012 Children’s Summer Farm Camp! Based out of the Los Ranchos Agri-Nature Center on Rio Grande Blvd. NW, our five-day farm camps offer environmental literacy experiences through the exploration of a variety of habitats; by growing, harvesting, preparing and eating organic fruits and vegetables, and through nature based art, using child-centered, fun activities.

Our…

Cooper’s Hawks are our most common urban raptor. This is a crow-sized hawk that uses stick nests throughout the city. Cooper’s Hawks are largely bird-eating birds, eating mainly doves and pigeons in the city. They typically breed in Albuquerque between April and July, and can be very…

So was playing hooky from work and napping with my door open.   Slowly, as if almost in a dream, I heard 2 people yelling at each other.

I got up and looked out, and it's a biker and some body in a car.

I made out this exchange.  "What am I supposed to do?  There aren't any bike lanes..."



"Why…

You're walking along the beach, looking out at the sea,

and you get a feeling. So you look back and half way up a seaside cliff there it is watching,…

We share so much with our neighbor to the west.  In fact Tucson is so like us in many ways it is considered something of a sister city.  Yet here we are...our very real differences as people revealed by the actions of the Governor of Arizona, the Sheriff of Maricopa County, and now the Tucson School Board.  What…

...guy says, "I speak English, sorta." I nod. "An' Spanish, sorta," he continues. And I nod again. "Ghetto an' Cracker too," he goes on while grinning. And I'm thinking, why'd I look this fool up?

Now he's asking, "Ya think we're a distink group?"…

   This past Sunday, Barry Gaines, UNM Professor Emeritus, delivered a prelude to the production of Macbeth that would occupy our stage that afternoon. He reminded me of an historical fact that lived just outside the perimeter of my…

I am in the process of finalizing my latest book "Tango Sunday"  short stories by Janet K. Brennan.  My guest author is someone you ALL will know, hint "Horror With a Heart"

Scattering Shells on Hard Ground

Janet K. Brennan

‘I have found the secret of life,’ he whispered; the god within, bounty of the soul that is written and re-written, hailed once upon a time on tablets but not carried down a mountain by a wizard; a burden on soft shoulders, written in few words, yet he sings his song in all languages. Hebrew –Spanish, he is all as his days grow short and he must tell a story learned; invitations that slipped through holes of…

This poem is about Chicago.  Ever wondered what living in a big city is like?  Read on.  Carl Sandburg absolutely loved Chicago.  To me, living there is one of those experiences remembered more fondly with 40 years of hindsight.   



Chicago has several subway/elevated lines.  I used to ride the…

Keshet Dance Company is undertaking a wide scope of international work this spring. Keshet is currently host to Romanian artist Vava Stefanescu throughout the month of March and will welcome Bar Roggel from Rehovot, Israel in April as part of Albuquerque’s Sister Cities Cultural Exchange Program.

Vava Stefanescu, a dancer and choreographer from Bucharest, Romania, will be in residency at Keshet Dance Company throughout the months of February and March 2012. Stefanescu is the founder…

The Pressure Cooker

In today’s partisan climate there are tremendous forces of pressure being applied to all of our political leaders.  In New Mexico, we need leadership that demonstrates grace under fire. Important progressive issues of Education, Labor, Women’s Health, Immigration and Marriage Equality cannot be solved with vitriolic speech but with decorum and determination.

Grace Under Pressure

On March 17,…

“Stars, hide your fires;

Let not light see my black and deep desires …”

                                                    — Macbeth

   We are drawn to light. It’s in our DNA.…

 …

Have you been to Acequia Books on 4th St.?  This poem is so firmly rooted in that great place I can almost smell the books.  It is owned by Gary Wilkie, husband of our Sunday poet.  Not only that, today's poem pays tribute to…

   You’re headed to New York for a conference that starts Wednesday morning, so you have to be in the city the night before. You decide to catch the opera Tuesday night. Your plane is scheduled to land at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, the opera starts at 7:30:…

News media make much of the division between traditional print publishing and digital book formats, generally positing the distinction as an either/or choice meaning the extinction of one or the insignificance of the other. But introducing any book, print or digital, is typically a multimedia project--or it should be.

My forthcoming book of poetry began as text alone. I don't think my publisher does e-book editions, and the…