Living Rootless

Grants Uranium Mine Museum, Grants, New Mexico In Grants, New Mexico, is a fine little museum about the history of uranium mining in ...

I went to the Rio Grande Nature Center State Park in Albuquerque awhile back. There are jetty jacks there. I like the name. Jetty jacks....

Although I have few possessions, I still have this card by George Littlefield . I bought it in Arizona in 2001, on my second solo road trip ...

Gathering of Nations 2013, New Mexico During some ladies' buckskin dances , I happened to be sitting on a court-side bleacher. Th...

Gathering of Nations 2013, New Mexico From my experience at the Red Paint Powwow, I knew about the (big) drum contests, but I didn...

Gathering of Nations 2013, Albuquerque, New Mexico Several folks have remarked to me that they like small powwows more than large one...

In December 2012, I recounted my search for a useful world-time application . I'd found a pretty good app, but I continued to search f...

Queen, knights, and bishop. San Francis de Paula Fiesta, Tularosa, NM. Here's the story: The Latino settlers of Tularosa and ...

Yesterday morning I noticed what I wasn't hearing. I wasn't hearing the constant song of the white-winged dove , a sound I'm a...

I was put on to this book by Maria Popova of Brain Pickings , via her post, How To Pack Like Nellie Bly, Pioneering Journalist . The bo...

Do you see the hummingbird? Leasburg Dam State Park, New Mexico Leasburg Dam State Park and Pancho Villa State Park are somewhat simi...

Cow Patty Hill, New Mexico. No, really, Valley of Fires, Highway 380, New Mexico. Yes, I get the fire bit .. lava ... volcano ... hot ...