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Colleagues and Friends

During this past week in Albuquerque I had the opportunity to work from the UNM Zimmerman Library and the SUB (Student Union Building). Walking familiar paths through campus, to Central, visiting my old office space in Woodward Hall, riding the amusingly speedy bus named ART, I was reacquainted with the University’s welcoming community. Nob Hill…
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The Chicks of T or C

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico is a charmingly quirky village between Socorro and Las Cruces. Its sister village is Elephant Butte, where the giant otherworldly reservoir sprawls across a treeless vista. My host’s next door neighbors keep a brood of egg-laying chickens. They like vegetables, but are not that fond of me. “We don’t come…
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Carpios Ridge, Trinidad Lake State Park Sunset
Standing at the top of a dirt trail, steeply sloped towards the lake below, I’m waiting for the sun to set. Clouds color as it descends. Barely pink among gray shadows over powder sky blue, January wisps adorn the tips of distant peaks. The deep gray blue green lake reflects vigilant trees. Watchful brave birds,…
