I’ve rarely experienced writer’s block. I know the trick of just free-writing whatever comes into your head to break through the brain noise preventing me from getting the words to flow. Nonetheless, I am also fully aware that most of my first-pass writing sucks and that’s just part of the process, and my creative work,… Read More Breadder Burque Ch. XVI: Bake on Through to the Other Side
I’ve had the lazy, wandering pleasure each of the past eleven summers to spend at least a month of it out of town riding a bicycle. 2009: Germany; 2010: Katy Trail, Missouri and on down the Mississippi River; 2011: U.S. East Coast; 2012: Germany/Netherlands: And, so on. But, to quote Paul McCartney from “Let it… Read More When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Go on a Faux Bike Tour
by Emily Esterson Sometimes, even when you think you’ve done everything right, the results are tragic. There are the sourdough bagels that turn into tiny hard disks (which was mystifying, because I’m really, really good at bagels, normally). There was a cake disaster of sticky, gluey non-cakiness. There was the famous brioche mishap, that brought… Read More Breadder Burque, Ch. XV: Books and Baguettes
In 1959, a person living at Silver Ave. and High St. on the east side of Burque’s Downtown could visit a friend at Presbyterian Hospital by walking east along Silver, cutting through Highland Park, and pretty much end up at the front doors of “Prez” in about ten minutes. By 1961, as shown below via… Read More Illustrating I-25’s Impact on Life in Burque’s East Downtown
Read about a new coffee shop in Wells Park this morning in “Downtown Albuquerque News.” Nice hyperlocal (that’s a good thing) online news source, you should check it out. Coffee shop Casa de Luna at 5th and Kinley is another step in the transformation of eastern Wells Park from generally non-residential along the lower numbered… Read More Getting Coffee Shouldn’t Be So Dangerous in Wells Park
by Emily Esterson (Editor’s Note: To catch you up, the first of this two-chapter story can be found here.) Detective Coquere spooned a bit of yeast from the baker’s refrigerator into a bowl with warm water. The baker facing the detective’s inquiries had executed a horrid bake after an earlier success. It was troubling. “We’ll… Read More Breadder Burque Ch. XIV: Ultimate Findings in Case of the Dead Fungi
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