Over our Sunday bike rides the past five years or so, riding buddy John and I haven’t gone more than a month of rides without one or the other of us exclaiming “Goddamn is New Mexico producing a shit-ton of oil these days!” Our regular periodic exclamations come from our shared obssession of staring at… Read More New Mexico’s Biggest Boom

I’m not one who cares much for travel involving tourist sites with a guide holding a flag for us to follow as they explain the site in the language appropriate to the group. Not my thing. Yet, I’d eagerly give up my aversion to such things if I was accompanied in the group to the… Read More Armistice Day in Hiroshima

Last night I finished my “David Sedaris Phase II” in which I read just about all his published work since *“Me Talk Pretty One Day,” which means all his book-published work this Century, including two fat daily periods of his daily diary writing turned into books. It has been an enjoyable and thought-provoking phase. Why… Read More My Non-Review of David Sedaris

Reading around the last few days, Democrats and Democratic Socialists seem to be debating whether to spend the next two years fixing things or sending Donald Trump and Co. to jail. Both are admirable pursuits, and while I read Georgia Senator Rev. Warnock say “we can walk and chew gum at the same time” regarding… Read More Fixin’ to Fix Things, Hopefully

Right about twelve years ago, I started riding my bicycle on a pretty much once a weekly basis with John. This morning we checked out doings in my South Valley, some of the biggest doings we’ve had down here in some time. That’s a crane! In the South Valley! And not that kind of crane!… Read More Sunday Bike Ride 11.8.26: Rio Bravo Bridge