The Symposium in the Jemez was most enjoyable. We got two nights at a guest house, free meals, and free trips to the hot springs in exchange for a couple hours’ pleasant conversation in front of an audience. Let’s just say that we didn’t hate it. The Jemez Mountains (pronounced HAY-mez) are named after the […]

This could be a metaphor. Or an allegory. Or the visual equivalent of found poetry. Perhaps it could be thought disturbing. Or odd. Or quaint. Or amusing. It’s a snail on a jawbone. But it could also be any or all of the above.

An excellent Albuquerque Greek restaurant, Yanni’s, has a frequent special, Parmesan-crusted fillet of sole. I’m quite fond of this dish, and as wild-caught Dover sole, or a reasonable facsimile, shows up at my local supermarket, I’ve been trying to re-create it. I failed totally, but I came up with something I like almost as much. […]

So . . . Saturday night I was at the Globalquerque festival, on my way to hear Yungchen Lhamo again, and I passed by the open air pavilion, and there was Puerto Plata and his band. And the music was so good that I couldn’t pull myself away.Puerto Plata’s real name is Jose. He renamed […]