FryBread – a Bite Out of History

Take a little nibble of frybread and close your eyes. Hear the ancient winds chanting through the canyons? Feel the sunlight on your bare skin? Smell the cedar and sage perfuming the air? Can you taste the blessing of life? More than 500 Native American tribes can....

The Albuquerque Turkey

As you probably already know, it doesn’t matter if you’re the most beautiful, or the smartest, or the most gifted of turkeys . . . you’ll most likely be eaten. My fellow turkeys don’t seem to mind; after all, they say—we all wind up in Turkey Heaven and...

How Corny is This?

  Happy National Candy Corn Day! Lots of people hate Candy Corn. Lots of people love it. How do I know? Because nine billion candy-corn KERNELS, or thirty-five million pounds, are produced every year! Somebody is loving that velvety smooth texture, the...

The Silence of the Trees

Sometime in autumn… I’m outside for reasons other than enjoying nature, my mind dripping with copious thoughts of numerous and diverse things, hurrying along, when suddenly, IT surrounds me like a cloak. You might say . . . IT arrests me. I stop. Look around. Listen....

HEROES: Buck Brannaman, the REAL Horse Whisperer

Who is Buck Brannaman? Buck Brannaman is a horse trainer, author and star of the widely acclaimed Buck – an eighty-eight minute documentary. For more than thirty years, Brannaman has taught that riding a horse is “like dancing—a combination of wooing, leading and...