There are many disgusting things to say about dogs. They revel in bodily excretions, going so far as to eat their own #2 or making a second meal out of a meal they’ve just vomited. They often reek (I am convinced they are the only animal that actually smells worse immediately after bathing). They chew […]
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, […]
On the Tuesday of the second week of school – as if things weren’t hectic enough – the universe once again threw puppies at us.* I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off for 12 straight hours – school all day, after-care program after school till 5:30p, PSA meeting from 5:30p […]
