The old woman is circling around the flame like a demented moth.
What drives her now? Is it Death? No matter what we call it, there’s nothing I can do about it. Her lungs are a pneumonia-ridden mess. She’s probably had it for a long time, low-grade, and now her chest is filled with secondary [...]

Aerial image © 2008 by Eva-Marie Brekkestø

Oh, those hoaxers are busy, all right. It’s hard work, too. Just you try getting a bunch of people out to a grain field in the middle of the night and creating something like this in a few minutes, then getting away without leaving any tracks or tire [...]

A friend of mine called this morning and mentioned my (and his) “existential crisis.” He’s a stalwart fellow and I appreciate the sympathy, but I’m actually not having one. I did get a bit exercised over any number of thoughts during the last few days, and writing is frequently how I process all the stress. [...]

Exhibit A: a photograph of me in Maryland from 1977. A very fine photographer friend of mine was cleaning out his archives and sent me this while I was in Santa Fe having fish & chips with the women in the previous post. I already knew one of them when Ed took that picture, and [...]

I’ve been using these things since 1984, so I guess they owed me one. But here’s what happened when I took my MacBook (manufactured June, 2006) in to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store in Albuquerque.
First you have to know that I have absolutely flogged this thing. After two years of constant use, [...]

Dubuque is a fascinating old city with lots of character perched high on the limestone bluffs overlooking the mighty Mississippi. (The river is quite high now, too.) In the image below, you’re looking north from Eagle Point Park. The opposite bank is Wisconsin. While we were standing there, we saw three pelicans fly by. Yes, [...]

I can hardly believe it: my wife and I have a chance to get away.
People tell me you have to get out of Taos every so often, for reasons that would never be apparent to you unless you stayed here over an extended period of time, and they’re right. This is Taos, and everything else [...]

Off to Santa Fe and Albuquerque today with a couple of gents to visit guitar stores, pawn shops, the Apple Store (in ABQ), a dead cow restaurant, and possibly a bar. I trust everyone here will be able to get along without me for a few more hours.
Into the canyon, hi-ho! And south to Fanta [...]

This is another plug: Raging Universe, which I’ve mentioned before, is an ironically rather quiet blog that frequently talks about the astrological background of the presidential campaign, among other things.
A short while back the author (a woman) more or less predicted the kind of race we’ve seen over the last few weeks, particularly as it [...]

Amazing. I went to the GMAC website two weeks ago and set up automatic payments for the new Vibe from our savings account, and today was the day for the first withdrawal. What do you know, it worked. Now we only have 59 more payments to go!
It always surprises me when these things actually [...]