Tag: new mexico
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June 11, 2008 05:15 PM EDT --
We're going there for vacation, and was wondering if you know any tips. Is the festival good? I'm taking two teens, and want to visit Carlsbad, The pained desert, and Roswell. . . . more
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June 20, 2008 09:59 AM EDT --
One of the artists paints my garage wall.
Two years ago, taggers hit the side of my garage that faces one of my New Mexican town's alleys, hit it with white aerosol spray in the shape . . . more
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June 01, 2008 04:26 PM EDT --
I came across this picture and wanted to share it with you and give you a bit of an explanation of why I love this picture.
My first contract as a Travel Nurse took me to Las Cruces, New Mexico. Right . . . more
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September 28, 2006 11:56 PM EDT --
The Church of Scientology constructed an elaborate underground bunker to store the works of L. Ron Hubbard just twenty miles from my home. They cut it in secret, deep into steep sides of a scrub-tiled . . . more
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August 15, 2008 09:36 PM EDT --
Perched high on the ridgeline of the Sandia Mountains at 10,400 feet, the only way to reach this restaurant is via the Sandia Peak Tramway.
Outside on the deck of High Finance Restaraunt . . . more
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June 06, 2006 11:41 AM EDT --
The growing of weeds is a tenuous endeavor. Left alone, the thriving is easy.
Yet I long for the lushness they seem to lack. The design seems less than perfect. I must try to nurture them to the glory . . . more
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August 28, 2006 12:14 PM EDT --
As summer begins to wind down, I realize that I haven't published anything on gather in the last month. In fact, I haven't spent much time here at all.
As weird as it was, it seems to have gotten . . . more
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December 20, 2006 02:02 PM EST --
I thought that it would be easy to ignore Christmas. My monastic life needs little decoration. My shopping list down to one, my daughter, and I send her what she can use most, money.
Then I noticed the . . . more
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March 15, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
In the Spring of 2006 I was responsible for representing one of the plaintiffs in a water rights adjudication in New Mexico. At a time when the world was staggering through an increasingly unfunny . . . more
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June 05, 2007 10:07 AM EDT --
Memoir
Memoir is the group for posting pure memoir pieces - memories, reflections, and narratives of your history, or the history of those in your family. Poetry is accepted if it is reflective and narrative . . . more
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November 27, 2007 08:24 PM EST --
In the midst of dark, war-torn 1939, artist Marc Chagall feared his days were numbered. The Nazis marched toward Paris, toward the small enclave of artists and intellectuals housing the middle-aged Russian . . . more
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April 10, 2008 04:22 PM EDT --
I was bored today, so I decided to make up a batch of salsa. I always make habanero, so I thought I would try something different this time. Spicy!
4 dried guajillo chiles, coarsely torn
4 dried . . . more
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August 03, 2008 07:27 PM EDT --
I just finished an article about Hot Air Balloons. I started reminiscing about our time in Albuquerque while I was on was on contact at a hospital there. We just so happened to be there when the Albuquerque . . . more
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August 15, 2008 06:23 PM EDT --
Well, maybe not the top of the world, but at least the top of Albuquerque.
Many of you have seen my photos of Albuquerque, as taken from the top of Sandia Peak. Some of you have asked how I got . . . more
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November 26, 2007 08:15 AM EST --
A man carrying a hunting rifle squints. He stands on the rim of a bowl-shaped depression, his mustache dripping with sweat. Heat rises from sparse desert scrub, from the splay of dust-splattered pickup . . . more
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August 03, 2006 03:12 PM EDT --
"Hello? Is this Birdie? Avon?"
He pronounced my name funny, with the accent on the second syllable. His voice was young, Spanish, nervous, almost furtive.
"Yeah? This is Birdie. May I . . . more
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August 04, 2006 02:03 PM EDT --
I parked under a sterile pecan tree,
in the lot of a broken wood gas station
that owned the intersection between Socorro and Carrizozo.
My right hand hurt from shifting
past sun cast spruce deer
lurch . . . more
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October 04, 2006 06:20 PM EDT --
Ghost towns, the allure of it all! What would we see? Would the old town be in rubble and ruin? We were camping years ago in Bernalillo, New Mexico, my husband and daughter and I. Bernalillo . . . more
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February 06, 2007 08:15 PM EST --
O.K., I'll go ahead and kill the suspense. I didn't see any creatures from outerspace and, try as I may, I wasn't able to find any entrances to secret labs. I did, however, find what I would . . . more
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July 25, 2007 09:59 AM EDT --
New Mexico is certainly an interesting place weather-wise. People think of it as the desert and it is, but the high desert. The town I live in is at 6,000-foot elevation. The . . . more
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