She deserved a better end…
Our friend, Kathleen Crownover, died 6/12/10. Eleven months ago, I wrote of her leaving her long-time home of Albuquerque as a kind of death. She proved my pronouncement foolish by prospering for...
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Remembering My Dad
My Dad died 40 years ago, 5/28/71. I had just turned 16 and we had just moved into a new house, a quirky fixer-upper that would become Pine Street in many memories. Dad came home early that day in a...
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Grief is the Price of Love
Lucky Dog died two years ago today, at 2:10pm. We miss him still, of course. I think we always will. He was a gift from the Universe and was with us during the very best times over 10 years. It was a...
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Remembering Madame Votaw
When I first met Madame Votaw over 40 years ago, I was frightened. Descending from the floor above in a rattling cage-like elevator, she emerged smoking like a dragon, surrounded by baying hounds. Add...
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Every film must end
Ebert, nation’s best-known film critic, dies at 70 – Toshiba By CARYN ROUSSEAU, The Associated Press, Thursday, April 4, 2013 9:06 PM EDT The heavy-set writer in the horn-rimmed glasses teamed up on...
View ArticleJonathan Winters made me laugh whole-heartedly
How does one fittingly eulogize a comedian? Are tears the best farewell? I’ve been thinking about this since Jonathan Winters died. I loved Jonathan Winters. He was wildly inventive and brilliantly...
View ArticleJohn Dendahl, ‘pit bull’ for GOP, dies | ABQJournal Online
I called him Dimdahl (countless times) and he made my blood boil. I’m sure that at one time I looked forward to dancing on his grave. That dies with him. He was a classic New Mexican, large and full of...
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mjh joined his adopted family in a day-long farewell to Kathleen Crownover. She deserved a better end… is a post from: mjh's blog. Thank you for subscribing. Let me know what you think. peace,...
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Remembering My Dad
My Dad died 40 years ago, 5/28/71. I had just turned 16 and we had just moved into a new house, a quirky fixer-upper that would become Pine Street in many memories. Dad came home early that day in a...
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Grief is the Price of Love
Lucky Dog died two years ago today, at 2:10pm. We miss him still, of course. I think we always will. He was a gift from the Universe and was with us during the very best times over 10 years. It was a...
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Remembering Madame Votaw
When I first met Madame Votaw over 40 years ago, I was frightened. Descending from the floor above in a rattling cage-like elevator, she emerged smoking like a dragon, surrounded by baying hounds. Add...
View ArticleShe deserved a better end…
Our friend, Kathleen Crownover, died 6/12/10. Eleven months ago, I wrote of her leaving her long-time home of Albuquerque as a kind of death. She proved my pronouncement foolish by prospering for...
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Mom
My Mom died 29 years ago today. By the end of September, she will have been dead more than half of my lifetime. I’m at a loss for a word to describe this. It’s not inconceivable, not really...
View ArticleWrite now
Some events send ripples back through time. Two weeks ago, I paused to watch a few minutes of The City on the Edge of Forever, one of my favorite StarTrek episodes. “By chance,” a few days ago I...
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Remembering Mom
Thirty-four years ago my Mom, Ernestine Justice Hinton, died of lymphoma at the end of days in a coma. Death cheats some people more than others. She has been dead more than half of my lifetime. I’m...
View ArticlePoor David Koch
It occurs to me that David Koch died knowing he’d failed terribly. Yes, he used his wealth to push candidates and causes Progressives couldn’t abide. (Often through the cowardly use of “dark money.”)...
View Article35 Years
My Mom died 35 years ago today. Life is short; death everlasting. Mom told Merri she knew I’d be angry about her death for a long time. Indeed, I was, but anger is a bitter memorial. She deserved...
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