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November 12, 2008 08:12 AM EST --
Twelve miles north of a sleepy Northeastern New Mexican town, the invisible ghosts of majestic beasts roam the outskirts of a manmade lake. 100 million years ago, claw-toed and sloe-eye . . .
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November 11, 2008 09:46 AM EST --
If you can't pick who you want for President, you can always pick piñon.
An old woman squats close to the ground next to a short, squat pine. She wears a thick cabled sweater to protect . . .
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November 05, 2008 09:21 AM EST --
You know his voice, the somehow smooth nasal lilt that caresses millions of ears each weekday afternoon during All Things Considered, the voice that massages confidence and instant intelligence into . . .
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November 04, 2008 06:03 PM EST --
Hi everyone! I'm just getting set up over here and opening a thread so that we can discuss the election returns. I'm live-blogging from NPR's headquarters in Washington D.C. and will be bringing . . .
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November 03, 2008 01:14 PM EST --
Signs are a little... different... in New Mexico. We take our politics with a side of hot chile passion! Most of the signs in Las Vegas, New Mexico praise Senator Obama. Very few folks host signs favoring . . .
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October 29, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
The Straight Talk Express in Las Vegas, New Mexico/Birdie Jaworski
Michelle Obama's speech in Las Vegas, New Mexico/Birdie Jaworski
Two weeks ago, the Straight Talk Express . . .
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October 13, 2008 10:41 AM EDT --
The road to San Augustin passes nothing, nothing but a pistol-pitted sign welcoming travelers to county road C-24, nothing but dry wind and green-gold prairie, the asphalt twisting in deference to property . . .
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September 25, 2008 12:33 PM EDT --
Hermit's Peak looks alien, looks sharp against our softly curved sky. The mountain is littered with crevices and caves, its peak rising 3700 feet above Las Vegas. The monolith was once called . . .
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September 18, 2008 12:51 PM EDT --
A massive football player, his uniform black, heavy, robotic, runs through a modern city, a flutter of torn books beneath spiked shoes. He carries a graduation cap in one hand, stolen from the head of . . .
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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 . . .
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June 11, 2008 11:10 AM EDT --
The Salvation Army Thrift Store holds secret treasures - cobalt blue depression-era glass, old 45's engraved with Elvis' finest, faded leather couches, and enough chipped knick-knacks to line every . . .
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June 10, 2008 12:37 PM EDT --
My Polish grandma died five years ago. Babcia lived in the middle apartment of a triple tenement house in New England for all of her married life. She worked all those years, too, in a beat-up shoe factory . . .
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June 10, 2008 12:10 PM EDT --
I read a forum post about the power of the avocado seed. It seems that some adventurous folks grind their avocado seeds into fiber-rich smoothies accented with various greens and fruits. Avocado . . .
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June 08, 2008 09:34 PM EDT --
Three hundred years ago, the storm and thunder of bison swarmed the pinon-laced hills outside of Las Vegas, New Mexico. The land looked different then. Beaver claimed the Rio Gallinas in numbers much larger . . .
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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 . . .
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November 27, 2007 07:27 AM EST --
My memoir, Don't Shoot! I'm Just the Avon Lady! is now available to order! Thank you to my publisher, Menendez Publishing ! A few of the many funny and touching stories in my memoir appeared . . .
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November 26, 2007 09:22 AM EST --
"That seems like a lot of hard work."
A boy in wrinkled school uniform gave Louis Jencka a wary glance. Jencka, an eighth-grader at Rio Gallinas Public Charter School, leaned against a gnarled . . .
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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 . . .
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August 30, 2007 11:20 PM EDT --
The clouds that blanket the Plains of San Augustin rarely notice the science traveler, the Mescalero Apache, the patchwork family with a bag of marshmallows and one unused match. The clouds push from . . .
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August 28, 2007 09:53 PM EDT --
A young man I know fell off an outcropping of granite this summer, fell eight vertical feet, fell into a six-week land of cast and crutch and exotic metal pins. Shattered tibia. Surgery. June plans as . . .
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