Skarsgard Farms (formerly Los Poblanos Organics) delivered turnips and beets to my front porch last week. Seeing these root vegetables side by side in my refrigerator gave me a hankering for Lebanese-style pickled turnips with beet juice. Since there was…

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• Is the Balloon Fiesta going broke?  Why else would vendors be asked to kick back 30%.  Sellers told to just raise prices.  For me, just another reason to not fight the crowds, the traffic, the heat, the…

Two guys talk shop at a classic car show downtown.

    •    Did you miss it?  On Saturday, the ABQ Journal's Tom Cole courageously asked who paid for the 80+ pieces the Journal has published from the Rio Grande…

My money's on the swan. She looks angry! Found on a yard in Ridgecrest.

In a land where human life mostly clings to the sides of a river or two, it is not hard to imagine a bleak future in a hotter, drier world.  This poem was probably also written, or sung, in Chaco a thousand years ago.



Aaron is a card carrying member of the…

A costumed man welcomes shoppers to Masks y Mas on Central in Nob…

In the Bliss Building on Central & 5th downtown, Lindy's began business in 1929 as the Coney Island Cafe.

   Three weeks ago, The Kingston Trio traveled through town between dates. They graciously agreed to stop for an interview. We set them up on our stage with the main curtain as a backdrop and…

• Yes we need the rain, but sometimes it just wreaks havoc.  Sand bags are available through these fire stations.
• North Valley Intersection Alert: Will it go round in…

Located near Burton Park in the Southeast Heights, this little storage shed imagines it's a skyscraper.

I admit there are some days I don't want to drive across town to the Children's Grief Center.  Their facility is near the Rio Grande Nature Center and as a bereavement group facilitator I have to be "on" which for a writer, and someone who is…

• Breaking Bad, what are we going to do when you are gone? You and your story about meth have kept us full of tourists!
• The Micronesian Kingfisher is a rare bird indeed.  And this one is a…

Located on Zuni & Dakota on the east side, Koenigs is a junker's delight. Comes complete with barking dogs.

I read "The Last Time I Wore a Dress" shortly before the first time I had a severe, sustained bout of depression (I'd had it on and off since adolescence, but only for hours at a time). The book (as I remember it 14 years later) is a memoir of a woman who was hospitalized in her teens for gender identity disorder and experienced several horrors in that time, including sexual abuse. Reading about those experiences put me…

CORRALES--Another of New Mexico's landmarks has been ravaged by fire.  One can only hope that there is a way to save at least some of it.  Over 200 years old, the building that became known as the Territorial House was well into its mature years when the Civil War broke out.  More recently, it also has significance to a whole generation of people who lived here in the seventies..the 1970's, that is.  It was the absolute center of life in the far north valley.



Everyone who was around…

CORRALES--Another of New Mexico's landmarks has been ravaged by fire.  One can only hope that there is a way to save at least some of it.  Over 200 years old, the building that became known as the Territorial House was well into its mature years when the Civil War broke out.  More recently, it also has significance to a whole generation of people who lived here in the seventies..the 1970's, that is.  It was the absolute center of life in the far north valley.



Everyone who was…

• UNM, meet meet the zoo.  Zoo, meet UNM. Zoo, please give UNM a lesson on how to care for ducks.
• I'm guessing if you are over stuffing your…

People enjoy pizza in front of a Nob Hill mural.