October 2022: Fiesta Time

October 2022: Fiesta Time

October 2022: Fiesta Time October begins on Saturday along with the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. Tourists are pouring into the city and it looks to be first “normal” fiesta since 2019. I’m highlighting four of many art events worth braving the...
September 2022: Keeping it Simple

September 2022: Keeping it Simple

September 2022: Keeping It Simple September tends to kick off the busiest time of year— new school year starts up, poetry and art events increase, and in Albuquerque tourists arrive in greater numbers as the weather cools down. In spite of these challenges I’m...
August 2022: Making Adjustments

August 2022: Making Adjustments

August 2022: Making Adjustments Poet T.S. Eliot famously declared that “April is the cruelest month” but July has been pretty difficult for my family with health problems and adjusting to lifestyle changes as a result. While many decisions on how to...
July 2022: Taking Stock

July 2022: Taking Stock

July 2022: Taking Stock  After starting the year with a frenetic pace, I find myself in a mid-year pause. Now, that long-anticipated Attleboro Arts Museum show is over with its cross-country trips and I’ve finished the Tree of Life mural at The Next Best Thing...
June 2022: Back to the Future

June 2022: Back to the Future

June 2022: Back to the Future I’m feeling jet-lagged from a kind of time traveling after returning to Albuquerque from re-visiting Massachusetts, where I spent my formative years as a young adult. The recent news of mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas have also...