If you are familiar with my blog, you might remember a number of posts about the local Colorado Springs Pioneers’ Museum, where I have been a volunteer docent since 2015. This year, our Curator of History started to volunteer her precious time to host a monthly book club for volunteers. It has been an exercise … Continue reading Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: The Westerners
My husband and I have a quirky habit: We save our old calendars and reuse them in years with matching dates. This saves us from having to buy new calendars each year, and from the old ones ending up in the landfill (or, ideally, getting recycled). At times, special holidays don’t coincide but that’s not … Continue reading Women Who Dare: Lillian Smith
It has been more than a decade since we last visited Utah where, for a number of years, we enjoyed camping and exploring the state’s iconic national parks, including Arches NP, Canyonlands NP, Capital Reef NP, Bryce Canyon NP, Zion NP, Natural Bridges NM, and others. Much to my chagrin, we have never made it … Continue reading Terry Tempest Williams
Recent repeated excursions to New Mexico (if only in my mind and photo archives) resurrected thoughts of another essay long wanting to be written. If you remember the listing of literary luminaries who enjoyed Mabel Dodge Luhan’s hospitality and patronage from my post If These Walls Could Talk, Willa Cather’s name was among them. Willa … Continue reading Willa Cather and New Mexico
In my last post, If These Walls Could Talk, you might have noticed D.H. Lawrence’s name on the list of luminaries with links to Mabel Dodge Luhan in New Mexico. During the first trip to our neighboring state to the south in the autumn 2009, we happened across a sign alerting us to the presence … Continue reading D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico
