February 2022

One of February’s troubadours, love poems glimmer like candy hearts against a blue sky. Coming in all hues, like love itself, they have the power to adore, seduce, honor, bind, anger, grieve, [...]

How Englishman John Broadhurst walks his talk with art that harks to home By Maria Johnson   •   Photographs by Bert VanderVeen Pick a special stick and tell about it? John Broadhurst nods and [...]

By Ashley Walshe February is a creature from an ancient myth, a wise old woman, a mystical crone goddess.  At first glance, she is homely, haggard and frightening. Her face is gaunt. Her [...]

How my parents maintained a steady diet of simple pleasures during COVID By Georgianna Penn “It’s the little things that mean a lot, just like the song,” says my mom, who, as a teenager in [...]

Long Homestead in Winter — Las Cruces, circa 1932 Not in any literal sense a homestead: it was purchased you learned from an old deed sent you by a cousin. And in this winter photo, strange with [...]

Historic haven reimagined as a vibrant motel By Cynthia Adams   •   Photographs by Amy Freeman   How did two hip interior designers, Gina Hicks and Laura Mensch, approach an historic project [...]

The Day They ʼDozed Old Dixie Down   By Billy Eye The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — William Faulkner In 1997, I moved downtown, just a couple of blocks west of Hamburger Square. [...]

“The Chosen One” A red-tailed sentinel; the discovery of a spirit animal; and a faithful, four-legged soulmate   By Jim Dodson Late in the afternoon on an unnaturally warm New Year’s Eve, I [...]

Mastering the Monsters A sci-fi novel for our surreal world By Anne Blythe If the past couple of years have proven anything, it’s to expect the unexpected. We’ve battled a virus that has shown [...]

  Lion King Roars Into Town “Giraffes strut. Birds swoop. Gazelles leap. The entire Serengeti comes to life as never before. And as the music soars, Pride Rock slowly emerges from the mist.” [...]