Tesuque Summer
Above: Illustration by Brett Affrunti. NEARLY FOUR DECADES AGO, I moved to New Mexico very much for winter—as a place to ski, to schuss down slopes above Santa Fe and Taos, and to enjoy hearty dishes…
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Tag: Coming Home
Ode to Pecos
Above: Illustration by Brett Affrunti. THE DOLL IS AS TALL AS ME, a girl on a patch of lush green grass. I talk to her and she talks back. A lone peacock ambles, wails, and dandies about. I barely…
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Alligators
Above: Illustration by Brett Affrunti. LATE-1980S MIDSUMMER EVENINGS we would go irrigate the fields. Mama and Stepdad shoved their shovels into the bed of the dusty green 1952 Willys truck, the…
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Found(ation)
Above: Rose B. Simpson outside her lifted Ford truck. Photographs by Minesh Bacrania. FOR THE LAST FEW MONTHS of senior year at the Santa Fe Indian School, my scholarship-acceptance letter to…
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Life, Death, and Community in Corrales
Above: Author Stacia Spragg-Braude chronicles life and death, community and family in the village of Corrales. Photographs by Stacia Spragg-Braude. IT'S A SUNDAY MORNING and I’m sprawled out facedown…
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Rediscovering Home in Mountainair
Above: Dixie Boyle walks with Bouba at Quarai, part of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. Photographs by Marilyn Conway. FROM MY PERCH IN THE Capilla Peak Fire Lookout, atop the Manzano…
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Deeply Rooted
Above: David Gomez in Taos, New Mexico. Photography by Stefan Wachs. FOR YEARS, whenever I thought about going back home to Taos, it was easy to get hung up on change—the Walmart where the old…
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Etchings on the Heart
The petroglyphs of Salinas Pueblo Missions tell an ancient story. SINCE MY FIRST visit to Mountainair and the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument in the late 1960s, the area’s reddish sandstone…
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