Taos

Hhere in the old adobe on the hillside, life goes on. Every afternoon the clouds of the summer monsoon season gather and build, dumping rain all around us but leaving us dry. From the vantage point of this hilltop, it’s easy to see why: New Mexico is just so huge, so monumentally freaking big, that [...]

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We were at a party earlier. The hosts had chickens, goats, a greenhouse, raspberry plants, and guard dogs working shifts to chase coyotes. An acequia ran right through the front yard (you Easterners have no idea), and there were mountains all around beyond the grassy plain. Yes, grass. It was something to behold, and the [...]

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Out here where the realtors hope you rich rubes will never go is a different kind of Taos. I know, because it gets all over my shoes this time of year. Be that as it may, there’s something you ought to see. We don’t do things half-way in El Norte, no sir, and the last [...]

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There once was a time in Maryland when living in the cold weather meant getting up early to turn the thermostat up. Oh right, most people have programmable thermostats. Well, this was some time back. At any rate, I was always cold! The pitiful heat emitted by the radiators in the last house we owned was no better than the forced air heat the blew in friends’ homes, leading me to invent the phrase, “the dank chill of centrally-heated houses.”

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See, it’s not all angst and primal bullshit with electrodes jabbed into your spinal cord. Sometimes you walk right into a moment that just works. It happened to me today in the local organic food emporium when I encountered a dangerous, wise-cracking personage of some repute whom I hadn’t seen in quite a while. He [...]

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This one could have been a keeper. The amenities of a suburban Taos horse property but authentic, chicken coop included, in a gracious setting I personally trust more than any Gringo Nation enclave. But all of this supposes something set on Planet Earth, not the alternative reality of Taos. The house itself is in an [...]

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