In Hajíínéí the water guardians became angry at the Nílch’i Dine’é and sent a massive flood into the First World to punish them…
Category: Essays
PHOTO ESSAY: Pagosa Celebrates Mardi Gras at Tennyson Event Center
The Tennyson Building Event Center is sending out a big “thank you” to all the fun-loving Pagosa people who turned out for their first ever Mardi Gras party…
ESSAY: The Warrior Woman
There are only 96 beds at the Craig Hospital and patients have to qualify to get in, but Summer was a shoe-in…
ESSAY: ‘Time’ vs. Pagosa Springs High School Girls’ Swim Team
In October, both the coaches and the athletic director of the school district were scrambling to find a pool, in order to save yet another season for this newly added sport…
ESSAY: The Legacy of John Porter
Besides being an avid sailor, a rough-and-tumble rugby player, an actor, producer, entrepreneur, expert skier, bon vivant and charming man-about-town, John was a dedicated and loving husband…
POEM: Moonlit World
When my woman talks it’s a symphony… Like a nightingale’s song she sings to me…
HMPRESENTLY: In Theory… and The Real Thing
That same morning, also very early, I happened to be out on the road, experiencing in real time what the psychologist had been talking about…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Pearl Harbor Day
They discussed the well-known story about the radar, and Dad got silent. One of the others said, “Larry, you’re a Pearl Harbor survivor. What do you think?”
HMPRESENTLY: Adventuring Across the Rubicon
If you could get peoples’ synapses to wrap around some nifty new service, or product, or, perhaps, a company’s good deeds, that was some seriously satisfying adventuring…
ESSAY: Inmates. Growing Sagebrush.
Levi says he’s never grown a plant from seed and found the experience therapeutic. “It’s nice to see something grow from nothing…”
A Standing Ovation for a Grand Dame
The couple settled in the charming borough of Beaver, PA, on the banks of the magnificent Ohio River…
HMPRESENTLY: Conversing in a Cockamamie State of Polarization
They’re like pixie dust, in a way… those three related words, all suggesting thoughtful, mutual, even casual talk among folks…
ESSAY: What’s Left of My Home Has Me Rethinking What I Teach, and How
This ‘First Person’ essay by Christie Nold appeared on Chalkbeat.org on November 17, 2021. What’s left of my home has me rethinking what I teach, READ MORE
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Medical Civic Action Project in Nakon Phanom, 1973
Our focus was twofold. First to provide primary care to the children. Second came pregnant women. Treatment for other adults was usually limited to dental care….
HMPRESENTLY: Crazy Woo-Woo, and Common Threads
I have no idea why certain words come to me, usually between three and four in the morning. A friend of ours who’s studied strange phenomena, says it’s ‘woo-woo’…
HMPRESENTLY: One Screwy Thing After Another
I started writing this column, featuring ‘screwy,’ late Wednesday, with something about reality shows in the first draft…
ESSAY: Learning a New Language is Exhausting
They had not yet learned to speak English, making it difficult to learn much in any of their classes…
HMPRESENTLY: Amusingly Whacky TV … and Mightier Pens
I was talked into binge-watching a series of shows on cable TV, featuring totally dysfunctional — totally nuts — characters…