You might know Emily St. John Mandel from Glass Hotel or Station Eleven. Her latest offering, “Sea of Tranquility” she brings us a time-traveling, period piece laced with pandemic and a glitch in the matrix. This book reads effortlessly and …
Read: Trinity Fields
New Mexico is close to my heart. It has been since childhood. I had family in Santa Fe but would also visit Raton at least once a year on our pilgrimage from Texas to Wyoming. Raton, after all, had a …
Creative: The Hill
Red and yellow. New Mexico, and the Zia and the tension and the poverty. Texans in fringe. “I made that festival,” she says. Red and yellow. New Mexico. Shave ice cylinders. Layered up, sugar, water, colors of the rainbow. Bubble …
Read: A Guide to Creatures in Your Neighborhood
Here is the key takeaway from The Urban Naturalist Project’s, “A Guide to The Creatures in Your Neighborhood.” Slow down. “Take some time doing…….” That’s it really. Nature isn’t something that “over there,” separate from us. Nature is here, right …
Read: Private Lives of Garden Birds
Birds. Once you start paying attention it’s all over. Calvin Simonds is a pen name, so who knows who the real author is but whoever they are they are paying attention to our feathered friends. COVID and Woodhouse Scrub Jays …
Read: Our Paris
What a wonderful little book about personal, Parisian vignettes tinged with the sadness of losing one’s partner. Coming from someone who just talked his way out of returning to Paris for what I believe is the twelfth time, reading about …