Category Archives: Life in New Mexico

The desert Navy

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Jim

I started my Navy career in Albuquerque, New Mexico. People do a doubletake when I tell them that. When I graduated from Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI, the Navy apparently had a bunch of shore billets to fill.  A … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in New Mexico, Sea Stories | Comments Off on The desert Navy

My favorite spectator sport

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Jim

If politicians did not exist I probably would be a big fan of professional wrestling. But politicians are so much more colorful and comic. It’s probably my upbringing. I grew up in Chicago, was an avid reader of Mike Royko’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Life in New Mexico | Comments Off on My favorite spectator sport

Snow? No, thanks

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Jim

I don’t like snow. Really, I don’t. That realization came to me on a snowshoe hike in the mountains in the light of the full moon. I thought: “This would be more fun without all this effing snow.” (And that … Continue reading →

Posted in Idle Ruminations, Life in New Mexico | Comments Off on Snow? No, thanks

Don’t rain on my fiesta

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Jim

I never fully appreciated rain until I moved to New Mexico. Needless to say, it’s dry here in the semi-desert. How dry is it? (rimshot) It’s so dry that the weather forecasters measure precipitation in hundredths of an inch. So … Continue reading →

Posted in Idle Ruminations, Life in New Mexico | Comments Off on Don’t rain on my fiesta