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Monthly Archives: January 2005

Thought of a lot a lot of good opening lines*tried this one out on Mike and it got a laugh, so* Mike, your worst fears are realized. I am still alive, proving that I don’t have to be dead to continue to haunt you. (Thought I would share an interesting surgical experience, but now, having […]

Emmaís birthday cake, her matching tee shirt, and a must see view larger image Emma’s actual birthday was a week ago, but we had this second celebration with her family, Flo and Susan. Flo and I napped on the drive home.

Emmaís birthday cake, her matching tee shirt, and a must see view larger image Emma’s actual birthday was a week ago, but we had this second celebration with her family, Flo and Susan. Flo and I napped on the drive home.

Adam Kibbe View larger image Not all of Albuquerque was endless desert skies and appealing adobe, the waxing moon rising poetically each night over the rugged Sandia mountains in the impossibly blue high desert air. Earlier this winter, the downslope neighbor had read my father the riot act after the septic pumper backed around the […]

I don’t know what the national coverage is, but I don’t think they’re exaggerating this storm. It’s difficult to photograph snow to convey accurate depths – too much redundant white, plus I’d actually have to venture outside -but here are two from this morning. View larger image View image Afternoon I’m a bit embarrassed to […]

Bonnie and Greg Downing. Saco River, 1981. Oh, and Diane in the stern which means she is steering? View larger image

I’m at the Finlay’s painting Emma’s bedroom. It’s late afternoon, Kate calls needing a ride home and Emma’s my navigator as we wend our way through the back roads. As pure dialogue, this conversation sounds morbid. It wasn’t at all. “My birthday is in five days?” “Five days? I thought your birthday was in May?” […]