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Thanks a bunch to everyone who responded to my "Unscientific Restaurant Poll" with great suggestions and advice on where to go for my 40th birthday dinner. Here is a little recap, as promised. It was really hard to decide where to go, with so many great options. I decided to go with Seasons because I thought it would be fun to go to Old Town, and I'd heard good things about it. All in all, it was a great evening. We all got gussied up, and arrived unintentionally early, but the table was all re… Continue

While driving down I-25, passing a familiar local lawyer's billboard Ron Bell, I'd never really made the connection before, but you are so doing "Blue Steel". A few minutes later, also driving down I-25 Man driving a truck with… Continue

It takes a bit of gumption to pack up and move somewhere new, even if it's to a city in the state you were born and grew up in. Who isn't at least a tiny bit nervous when they move away from their hometown to go off to college? I certainly was when I moved to Las Cruces from Santa Fe in 1987 to go to New Mexico State University. When I moved to Farmington in 1991, for a summer internship at the Farmington Daily Times, that was kinda scary too. And then three years later, I packed up and… Continue

Can we talk? It's about this wind we've been having. Since, oh, what was it, January? February? 2003? Basically, it just feels like it's never stopped being windy. Sure, there were a few days here and there when it wasn't windy. It was maybe breezy. And I even think there have b… Continue

It's been four springs since we moved to the East Mountains from the Northeast Heights of the Big City, and every year, I've delighted in watching life come slowly back to our land. When we bought this house, we also became stewards of not only junipers and pinons, but also a f… Continue