by robert | Nov 7, 2012 | Article, Santa Fe Reporter
Dani: Thursday, Oct. 18, 12:24 pm I give my carry-on and the bin holding my desert boots and water bottle a shove, and wave down the pasty TSA agent manning the body-scanning machine. “I’m opting out,” I tell him. “You’re opting out of this technology?” he asks,...
by robert | Nov 7, 2012 | Article, Santa Fe Reporter
“You got a lot of hate mail on that last column.” I was standing in a parking lot on St. Michael’s Drive watching my son London step in front of a solar panel the size of an oven door when a stranger approached me. Part of a neighborhood re-visioning celebration, the...
by robert | Sep 5, 2012 | Article, Santa Fe Reporter
I don’t have a Twitter account, never donated to any Kickstarter projects and my flip phone forces me to text like a 13-year-old girl living in 2001. But I believe in social media. I have used Facebook to make announcements (yard sales, favorite articles) and...
by robert | Aug 1, 2012 | Article, Santa Fe Reporter
My friend Nell once told me that Taos was put on this Earth to remind people to slow down. I return to the “soul of the Southwest” each summer to attend a conference, and this remark rings truer than anything I ever learned in Catholic school. Some days, I...
by robert | Jun 6, 2012 | Article, Santa Fe Reporter
Dear Graduating Class of 2012, First, let me say how saddened I was to hear about your original commencement speaker’s unfortunate accident in the batting cage with the defective pitching machine. Wow. They say once the swelling goes down, the doctors will be...
