Bodie and Lyndsay have picked up a new Scottish deerhound pup– and met Miranda! More news when blogging resumes…
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Can’t quit!
I will bribe somebody to drag me away from this computer soon, but a few things like this last (?) bunch of Laramie photos by Malcolm Brooks (click to embiggen) keep coming in. Artist Katrina van Grouw of The Unfeathered Bird, and me, in Laramie bar Carlos’s incredible library– I am holding a Spanish first …
Neuro blog post
My blog for the UNM Health Services site should be up soon here— perhaps in a day or two. It begins with my detststion of the term “progressive” as in “progressive disease”: ” It is part of the proper definition of PD: Parkinson’s is a “progressive” neurological disease. as I am a writer and work …
Still one more for game…
Eileen Clarke’s new book, Sausage Season, is the best on sausage making I have ever read, and I want to get out a review early enough that you can use it (or give it for Christmas). I have tried my hand making cased sausages, and so have friends in town. Almost always, the results are …
One more for fun
Does anyone know where this is from?
Hiatus?
I am (probably) going to take a break. I have no desire to stop blogging, but my energies are finite, and I NEED to get at least one and possibly two books going. It has become apparent that I am not getting enough done, and that I am often exhausted by end of day while …
Almaty Pigeons
Most readers will know that I love pigeons; some may know I am particularly interested in where domestic species come from, with emphasis on dogs and pigeons. The most pigeon – mad country I know is Turkey, which could be seen as a major source for western breeds. But the Turks say their breeds came …
Then and Now
Nothing makes you feel old as finding a photo from, oh, twenty years ago that resembles a recent one. The first pic fell out of a box a few weeks ago, and shows me and Annie P in our first year of teaching writing at the Wildbranch workshop at Sterling College in Vermont ; the …
Penelope
Penelope Caldwell is an artist with a striking visual style She paints larger- than- life portraits with mythological, sometimes erotic elements (not all the images on her site are “safe” for work!) In our room when we stayed with her and her husband Jim, the Old Gunkie , was this painting, towering over us. We …
My Bar
A very nice quote from Matt Mullenix on the Golden Spur: “A man’s watering hole is sacred. There should be some international treaty to protect places like that. “ I had been here five or six years when this 1985 photo was taken for the Albuquerque Journal.