La Risa Cafe – Ribera, New Mexico (CLOSED)
“La Risa es el mejor remedio.” (Laughter is the best medicine.) Laughter is a mystery. Scientists don’t know why among…
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“La Risa es el mejor remedio.” (Laughter is the best medicine.) Laughter is a mystery. Scientists don’t know why among…
Despite my (then) near eidetic memory and a sesquipedalian lexicon, it was my bumpkinly naivete my friends in Boston found…
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My friend Carrie Seidman, the elegant and erstwhile restaurant critic for the Albuquerque Tribune prefaced one restaurant review by saying…
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Returning to the United States in 1985 after my first year in England, there were two things that surprised me. …
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In 1520, after sailing past South America’s Tierra del Fuego and through a perilous strait which he named for himself,…
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” – William…