You may know it as “the listing disease.” I have contracted it. It comes as a common side effect to making a life list and attending Camp Mighty, or from being an innately organized, point-driven person. (See counteractive example of Desk at Work, which is host to myriad bullet points written on scraps in a post-it […]
At the end of September, a bunch of my cousins and my sister and I got together in Corolla, North Carolina to relive the old Outer Banks vacations of our childhood. We rented a house two blocks from the beach, awoke for the sunrise, played in the waves, and laid in the sand every day, […]
On Sunday was a glorious, riotous orange and yellow sunrise that lit the east side of the Organs up like neon highlighter. The drive away down the Aguirre Springs road was made begrudgingly, but the border control checkpoint and White Sands were waiting. White Sands is best in the morning or evening, when it is […]
After the spectacular failure of our first camping trip south, I decided to do it again the next weekend and revisit everything I felt we had missed. The plan was to slowly meander back down NM-380 to Carrizozo, camp Friday night at Valley of Fires State Park, wake up to explore the area around Carrizozo, […]
In other parts of the country, the month of September means school, changing leaves, or possibly the observation of Teddy Bear Day (a real thing). To New Mexicans, however, September is synonymous with one thing: CHILE. Red, green, fresh, fired, hot, mild, however you like it. Drive across the Rio Grande bridge in Albuquerque with […]
