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Stories and musings
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Cuchillo, Winston, Chloride, New Mexico Literally, and as metaphor, the road to the edge of the Black mountains holds messages about truths and consequences. I ventured westward on a picnic to scout camp sites, and to try and forget about the larger world. No luck on either. This Gila region was Apache country until it…
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Cuchillo, Winston, Chloride, New Mexico Literally, and as metaphor, the road to the edge of the Black mountains holds messages about truths and consequences. I ventured westward on a picnic to scout camp sites, and to try and forget about the larger world. No luck on either. This Gila region was Apache country until it…
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Winter Camp Mid-December 2025 I’m fortunate there wasn’t much wind. Setting up the new tent was no more difficult than it had been in my yard. It wasn’t much easier either. I had the poles in and was deciding which of the multiple openings was intended to be the entrance. I was rotating the unstaked tent…
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Victorian Hotels in High Mountain Towns and a late summer drive to Tucson My first concern is no hot shower. The phone is charged, which is good because otherwise I would have missed the notice on my weather appa bout a “Regional Planned Emergency Power Outage.” That’s the wording. As a former city planner I’m especially…
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The interstate is very bumpy and busy past the Arizona border. It is best viewed from a distance as it stretches out in the distance on the descent from the mountains. Trainline-like lines of tractor trailers move back and forth. You barely see the car. When you’re on the interstate it’s like that too. Cars…
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“You’d think this far away from “civilization,” here he used air quotes, “that you wouldn’t hear cattle screaming all night .” The Deming Luna Mimbres Museum lives up to its moniker, “The Biggest Little Museum in the Southwest.” The old Armory building is a standout. The volunteer staff know their stuff. The gift shop has…
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They came from the north. Slowly at first. We were here already. Sadie flipped her thick blond braid back. Her little mutt ducked. Chocky glanced over at Cat who rolled her eyes. People were here six hundred years before your family, Sadie. White people. That’s not true either. First to legally claim the land. Nope.…
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Silver City is good. It’s the kind of place that reminds you of other places you remember fondly, more for size and seeming out of another era than for a busy scene. As an early and current mining town, the proverbial Wheel of Fortune has rolled over this place again and again. The copper mines…
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