CITY OF DUST

Well, it's been just over two years since the last City of Dust blog post. In that time I've moved from New Mexico to northern Nev...

Since the previous post was a special one on the Río Puerco Valley featuring the recollections of historian and folklorist Nasario García...

Over the past few years the Río Puerco Valley has become one of my favorite places in New Mexico. About an hour northwest of Albuquerque, ...

( Ven a los toros - Come to the bulls.) Blood spills out on the streets And bodies are missing for weeks Both sides keeping a close e...

( La vida es muy corta para tener miedo - Life is too short to be afraid.) Juárez, I had a dream today The children danced, as the gui...

I might as well stop pretending that I’m going to post more regularly and admit that, modern life being what it is, time is always tight, ...

In Socorro County, New Mexico, tucked off a side road that parallels I-25, not far from a muddy stretch of the Rio Grande, is the little ...

MARCH 2023 UPDATE: I am beyond thrilled to be able to make available here one of only two known firsthand descriptions of life in Ricardo,...

Despite the photo from Cedarvale, New Mexico above, this isn't a ghost town piece. Instead it's yet another story to fill in the t...