We enjoy the excellent food of the Original Cocina Azul, meet our friends Michael and John, and consider the wonders of Sopaipillas

In which I think about my strange and maybe unnatural personal relationship with the longest aerial tramway in North America.

We travel far and wide, and discover the world’s rudest Bagel schleppers.

We finish our time at the Sawmill, and see professionals...from the oldest profession.

We explore the Sawmill, and discover that we just didn't fit in...and, maybe, didn't want to.

In which we visit the High Noon, consider inverted Xmas Trees, and enjoy Green Chile Stew!

We explore Connie’s amazing shop, Old Town Antiques, and she tells us all about her adventures with the wife of the mysterious musician

A bit more about Connie and Old Town Antiques...plus the disaster of the lady who was the dealer in waaaay too many things.

In which I explore my parents’ art collection a bit more, and consider the late, great Bill Rabbit.

In which I combine art, a really good New Mexican wine...and grave robbers.

How a mysterious man disappeared...and forced my parents into the art business.

Okay, last time, I left off with my Mom becoming gradually, but thoroughly disillusioned with the Academy. At about the same time, my...

On my mother, a dear woman with a soft heart, a hard head, and a Ph.D. that she could use like brass knuckles.

In which I explore a bit more about my Dad, physicist extraordinaire and deep lover of good mischief.

All about art, freeports, scandals, and a singing animatronic Christmas Chihuahua.

In which we prepare for the Great Estate Sale, and I disarm a Molotov Cocktail-qua-Barbecue Grill. (Great fun.)

In which we meet my parents, and how they had a chainsaw between Austen and Dickens.

In which I explore the career of the Bizarre Bernarr, who was more than slightly crazy, but always entertaining.

We go further into Placitas, and get hints of the talented Mr. Bernarr Macfadden.

In which I consider Placitas, NM, and the strange life and stranger death of Ulysses S. Grant/ Donald Waskey, marijuana rancher extraordinai