I was eight years old when I wrote my first short story about a pencil who went to a dance. That must have seemed obvious to me in the fourth grade. Pencils liked to dance. I was a child steeped in literature about fairies and trolls, as well as English nannies who could fly and […]
During four decades from the 1880s until his death in 1917, Thomas Lyons reigned as the dominant rancher in Grant County, both respected and feared. His LC Ranch in the southwest corner of the county stretched across a range—including leased federal land—of some 1.5 million acres, 40 miles from east to west and 60 miles […]
Every day I drive the same highway to get into town. I have driven this route thousands of times and is my daily commute. I am lucky, I live in a small rural Southwest community nestled in the foothills of the Gila Wilderness. My commute is a beautiful drive through wild country with few people. […]
In the early 1990s I wrote a book on the history of big-league baseball, football, and basketball. (The homage of a lifelong fan.) As part of my research, I read about 150 jock memoirs. Of those, only two were at all interesting. Both by basketball players: Bill Bradley’s Life on the Run and Bill Russell’s […]
We respectfully acknowledge that the entirety of southwestern New Mexico is the traditional territory, since time immemorial, of the Chis-Nde, also known as the people of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. The Chiricahua Apache Nation is recognized as a sovereign Native Nation by the United States in the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Friendship of 1 July 1852 (10 Stat. 979) (Treaty of Santa Fe ratified 23 March 1853 and proclaimed by President Franklin Pierce 25 March 1853).
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