Vesuvius At Home

Today I watched a little girl just splash into the Santa Fe River in her pink striped Adidas tennis shoes, same shoes as I had in colleg...

I was ironing tablecloths. We were going to have the table read there at the production office. You know, the thing where the cast s...

*art by Laura Ellis , in Ernesto Mayan's Gallery , Santa Fe. I spent all of last week bouncing from hotel to hotel, working long d...

I didn't leave that day on the train. I arrived here in a different method, after I went out into the world and built a life and the...

--> The girls and I are in Santa Fe visiting with our ghosts. I’ve said it before—a very specific thing occurs when y...

Ever since last fall I have been preoccupied with birds in the sky. Wild geese, like in the Mary Oliver poem. It must be because I had ...

Ayla and I went to Target for school supplies. She is entering 5th grade, her last year of elementary school. How this happened...

On the first day of August, we went camping. We have not camped as a family since we moved here. I don't know why. But sometime last...

This series of photographs reminded me of these two pictures of my daughters. This is one of the more fascinating articles I've...

Have you been waiting to buy Angel Food on a payday that never comes? Do you wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, afraid...