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Best of Huck (I)
This year I am teaching Juniors. As part of their first assignments, I am writing parallel work. This will only serve them in the slenderest of ways. I hope it serves me a great deal. I also hope it serves … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcoholism, Huckleberry Finn, Junior English, Writing
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For the Reader
This month the JOY Writers are having one of their two yearly public readings at the Roswell Museum and Art Center. It will be held in the Bassett Auditorium on January 21 at 2:00 pm. The reading is free and … Continue reading
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Tagged Dark Canyon, family, Guadalupe Mountains, JOY Writers, photography, Public Reading, Ranch life
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Big Fat Lies
Lately our landline is being inundated by a particularly loathsome scamming group. It turns out there are these terrible companies that try to steal information from people through the computer, and they can also get one’s phone number and try … Continue reading
Formative
I think everyone has the right to be in the minority. It is an amazingly freeing experience. Why do I say this? The year I turned fourteen, my family moved to Canyon, New Mexico, and I started attending Jemez Valley … Continue reading
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Tagged band, high school, Jemez Pueblo, loneliness, minority, weird
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Define Hypocrite
I came to Roswell, America in 1992. It was a good year to come. There was still a bread bakery along Main Street that perfumed the air of this town, and though it has always been a desert island in … Continue reading
The Cruel World
I’ve been out of the blogging world (I can’t stand “blogosphere”) for a few days for reasons I will not explore at this time. I will say only, I went to a rather unusual memorial and ended up sitting on … Continue reading
The White Whale
I am listening to the audiobook of Moby Dick. It’s madness, of course. In Melville’s day there was a different term for madness, monomania. You can look it up. We would call it obsession. Obsession is interesting to writers. We … Continue reading
It Occurs to Me
When I was a Senior in high school, we moved, and I had to adapt to a new home. This was not too burdensome for me. We had moved at the beginning of my high school time, and I was … Continue reading
Translation, Of a Sort
My nephew teaches Chinese and Spanish. Yes, he’s very smart. Anyway, I also consider him a friend, and we have begun, by baby steps, a translation project. He tells me what the words in a Chinese poem mean, and I … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese, family, literature, Poetry, translation, Writing
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Choosing Ebenezer 