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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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Coyotes

Above: Illustration by Brett Affrunti. The realization often hits me around dusk, as the water travels through the acequia and the embers in the campfire crackle. From their lair down by the Pecos…

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Go High

Above: Illustration by Brett Affrunti. I DREAD SUMMER. Summer is to southern New Mexicans as winter is to Chicagoans: a perfectly legitimate excuse for staying indoors. Daylight saving is on; the…

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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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Camp Life

Above: Idyllic Fenton Lake State Park is the perfect family fishing hole. Photograph by Adrian Holder. IT DIDN'T SEEM RIGHT, but after 16 miles on a rutted dirt road somewhere north of Regina…

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