Category Archives: New Mexico Life

Review of American Fix by Ryan Hampton, former White House staffer

I am so excited. While browsing through facebook groups I’d joined a while back (which generally get lost in the tangle of links and memories too large for me to organize) I checked into a closed group called TAP United, … Continue reading

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Merimee’s blog on Notes on Serenity: An ABC of Addiction

What is this book? A thought that comes to mind almost daily, now that I’m selling it, giving it, launching it, asking it to run and play with the other books. I’m happy that’s it’s been released ( though I … Continue reading

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FEAR OF ALL FEARS

FOAF              FEAR OF ALL FEARS FOMO              FEAR OF MISSING OUT FOBO              FEAR OF BETTER OPTIONS FOGO              FEAR OF GOING OUT FOSH               FEAR OF STAYING HOME FUBAR            FUCKED UP BEYOND ALL REPAIR (VINTAGE, wordy) FOGL               FEAR OF GETTING LAID FOBU              FEAR OF … Continue reading

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About Notes on Serenity: An ABC of Addiction

About Notes on Serenity I was seventeen when I started writing my feelings whenever I had paper and a writing utensil. Following my counter culture decade and the hard scrabble years, I had a teaching career devoted to literature and … Continue reading

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Greater Chaco fundraiser

  I read my poem “The Tour or Fracking is Fracking” at the Greater Chaco fundraiser, Saturday May 12, at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Thank you to Jules and John for the anthology and for donating copies of Water to the … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 18

Those paths you’d rather not take?   Well, someone’s on them. A woman in a fake hospital, a medical money collecting agency that squeezes every dime out of crime against the ill: negligence, incompetence unkind roughness—lifting my friend by her … Continue reading

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Embrace #8 NaPoWriMo 2018

Embrace an English teacher today. At least think about it: her eyes like dos puntos: period period.. His member an exclamation incarnate! The vehicle of Interjections! Speculate on ellipses and spaces: drafting, practice, practice. Imagine an English teacher, Mr. So … Continue reading

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#5 & # 6 NaPoWriMo 2018

#5 & #6                        April 6, 2018  mm The year of my first daughter, Jorie Graham’s Erosion— I still have little time to read the stacks and piles, glean an education that in the end does not surpass the births, … Continue reading

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Ecstasy (albeit brief) in Awards!

What a surprise in my email! “You won!”  Georgia and I decided to send the book out during the first of the year flurry of deadlines, and I found this local contest. Now every poet and their grandma will be … Continue reading

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Squash n Rehab Soup

my new squash soup recipe   I’m grateful I drove to Farmington from Burque on Wednesday for family day at the recovery center; left my house at 4:40 AM enjoyed the cold empty roads, the high mesa hills pink striations … Continue reading

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