This weekend we sojourned once again to Socorro, the Athens of the Southwest, to check out Chris Calloway. This isn’t the football player, or the wrestler, but the niece of pioneering band leader Blanche Calloway, the daughter of Cab Calloway, and the god-daughter of Lena Horne. “Chris,” by the way, is short for “Christopher.” By […]

I used to hang out with a shockingly talented group of people. (Not that I don’t now, of course.)But over the years people move or fade away or just lose touch. In the old days that would pretty much be that, but nowadays there’s Google to help you keep up with the old gang.Every so […]

My Taos Toolbox student, Cat Rambo, has a book! Check it out. Just in time for the holidays, the perfect gift for lovers of dark fantasy… THE SURGEON’S TALEAnd Other Stories By Cat Rambo & Jeff VanderMeerOrder at http://www.kittywumpus.net/orders The Surgeon’s Tale & Other Stories is the first book by exciting new talent Cat Rambo, […]

So here we are on a holiday that celebrates the sacrifices and triumphs of our nation’s veterans. All honor to them.Alas, recently declassified information now reveals that both our government and our private sector has once again failed returning veterans. The health care scandal was bad enough, as was the various administration moves to deny […]