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A baseball season or two ago, I was in my den reading the newspaper, shaking my head at Dear Abby, and enjoying a hot cup of gourmet coffee.I was listening to my TV’s Blues channel. They were …
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By Jim and Henry Duchene
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7/31/20
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I have been taking part in a writer’s group in Silver City (via Zoom) for a few months now. I often am not able to zoom in on the weekly meetings, but I am continually inspired by the prompts …
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By Elva K. Österreich
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7/31/20
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Both wildfire and coronavirus are contagions. Both derive their power from their capacity to propagate. Both seem to have mutated from routine seasonal varieties into something meaner, the product of people changing how they live on the land.
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By Stephen Pyne
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7/31/20
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Drive-in restaurants were not invented with a global pandemic in mind but, turns out, they are suited well to Coronavirus restrictions.
Sonic may be the dominant player in the drive-in restaurant …
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7/31/20
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It took us some time to get used to this new normal, but I hope by now we’ve all come to accept these circumstances and move on. Personally, hiking has given me a sense of normalcy these days …
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By Gabriele Teich
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7/31/20
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“I say with pride that I was born with the soul of a gypsy. For me, the term gypsy is one of endearment. It speaks of fierce independence, curiosity, restlessness, and a willingness to try most …
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By Sheila Sowder
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7/31/20
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Overhead on these July evenings, Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, is a small constellation of mostly fourth magnitude stars forming a semicircle opening to the east toward Hercules. Greek …
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7/3/20
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I have watched and know many law enforcements officers who have behaved in extraordinarily kind and compassionate ways. They have responded with care to dangerous situations and shown compassion to …
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By Elva K. Österreich
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7/2/20
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Do your thoughts seem a little more philosophical than usual lately? About life and time and family and friendships and what it all means? Past events and decisions and how they shaped your life? The world and how we fit into it?
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By Sheila Sowder
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6/15/20
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Do your thoughts seem a little more philosophical than usual lately? About life and time and family and friendships and what it all means? Past events and decisions and how they shaped your life? The …
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By Sheila Sowder
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6/1/20
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I’d just about had enough.
I leaned back in my favorite comfy chair, the red one that creaks when I shoot my legs out across the floor. A sigh of exasperation escaped me as I put down the …
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6/1/20
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Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? To the company of saint and sage, of …
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By Denise Chávez
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6/1/20
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The proprietor of a small, old hotel not far from the Continental Divide walks across the lobby of his establishment and greets the only guest, who is also walking through.
They stop and the guest …
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By Richard Coltharp
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5/31/20
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There’s been a quarantine in place in Mexico that is more or less the duplicate of that on the U.S. side and governed by international rules.
On both sides the coronavirus is being taken …
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By Marjorie Lilly
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5/31/20
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I have a friend who thinks like a plant. At least that’s how I see it. She worked for us in our nursery a year ago planting up seedlings, while I worked on willow cuttings for a forest service …
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By Mark Cantrell
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5/14/20
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Cell towers, 5G, are spreading the coronavirus; Dr. Anthony Fauci sent the virus to China in 2015; Medicare is incentivizing hospitals to lie on admittance and death of patients giving out $39,000 …
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By Elva K. Österreich
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4/30/20
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I took my granddaughter to see the house where I grew up.
Across the street is the elementary school where I got into all kinds of shenanigans as a kid. I wouldn’t say my friends and I were …
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By Jim and Henry Duchene
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4/30/20
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Due to the many stores closed due to the Coronavirus, Desert Exposure’s distribution locations have been reduced, but quantities have been increased at those that remain open. Below, …
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4/24/20
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This month marks a couple of significant milestones for my relationship with this wonderful paper and the local horse community. It was ten years ago, April 2010, when I wrote my first column …
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Scott Thomson
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4/1/20
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Over half of all RVers have pets, and I’ve written about them from every possible angle except one. The angle of “what if your pet doesn’t want to give up its nice, comfy house and …
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By Sheila Sowder
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4/1/20
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