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If you’ve lived in New Mexico for any length of time and are interested in its history, there is a name you should really know. That person — a true treasure of our state — is the late Dr. Myra Ellen Jenkins, former State Historian and knower of all historical facts New Mexican. I wasContinue reading “Thanked in the preface of nearly every book…”

The host platform for my blog, WordPress, has a feature that I’d never considered using until today, when boredom crept in and lured me into trying it. “It” is an Artificial Intelligence feature that reviews what you’ve written, analyzes the text and makes suggestions for improving what you thought was a carefully crafted post. ItContinue reading “Thanks, AI, but I think I’ll pass…”

A friend and former stockbroker sent me a link earlier this week to story regarding an interesting development on a stock that I didn’t even know was publicly traded. The story told how the stock price of exotic Italian carmaker Ferrari had tumbled more than five percent when the company announced its first fully electricContinue reading “A 12-cylinder rotation from the grave…”

The New Mexico primary election is Tuesday, June 2, 2026 and I’m working again as a volunteer election official for the early voting phase, as well as on election day. It’s been pretty slow so far, with only a handful of races being contested. The biggest focus statewide is on the governor’s race, with multipleContinue reading “Do I judge machines???”

On a recent drive across the southern tip of the Black Range northwest of Las Cruces, we stopped by the cemetery in Hillsboro to find the grave of a former Episcopal priest and his wife who we knew were buried there. As we often do when we visit older sections of cemeteries, we look forContinue reading “19th century renaissance man or “ruthless killer” ???”

Twice in the past month, I’ve driven along New Mexico highway 61 between Deming and San Lorenzo on the way to Lake Roberts. It’s a seldom traveled route worthy of a detour if you’ve ever looking for a slightly longer and more scenic drive to Silver City from Las Cruces. The road wanders along theContinue reading “Easy to miss…”

Many years ago a friend and kindred spirit in the admiration of all things BMW had acquired a non-USA certified version of a 1977 BMW 320i. It was actually a 320 (the “i” which was missing from the model identification designated fuel injection, which this car did not have. Instead, it had a hot WeberContinue reading “Testing the limits of adhesion…”

A front page article in our Las Cruces Sun-News this week told about the filming of three movies in and around our desert community about — wait for it — SHARKS!!! Two of the movies by the film company called The Asylum are entitled “Shark Shiver” and “Shark Frenzy” and the third apparently has notContinue reading “What’s next? Lawrence of Arabia filmed in Alaska???”

As I have written in previous posts, I’m always fascinated by the Gila country of southwestern New Mexico. I’m always finding something new in the landscape or in the culture of its human past. On my most recent trip to help school children from Silver City release once endangered Gila trout into Lake Roberts, IContinue reading “3D printing invented in the Gila…”

I wrote recently about the fact that New Mexico does not have any toll roads, although a “smishing” effort that reached a lot of people in our state claimed that we have one. I got a letter or an e-mail from the scammers suggesting I had not paid a New Mexico toll road fee recentlyContinue reading “Tunnel vision…”

For the third time in four years, I’ve participated in the release of trout raised in the classrooms of elementary schools under Trout Unlimited’s Trout in the Classroom program. The program is designed to encourage students to appreciate the environment, the value of clean cold-water fisheries, to take responsibility for raising and caring for aContinue reading “Back home again…”

Two recent stories about Texas wanting to grab some of New Mexico’s southeastern counties prompted me to look at some historical facts about our state’s boundaries over the years. And in particular, I wanted to look up Texas’ oft-repeated claim that The Lone Star State once included much of New Mexico. Texas in fact wantedContinue reading “Hold on there, Tex…”