• Interlude

    I’ve now been home from Santa Fe almost a week, and memories are already fading.  I took some notes while there, so I’m going to write them up now.  The resulting post may…

  • Adobe, as Far as the Eye Can See

    The lovely thing about vacationing without the children – who I dearly miss! – is how leisurely the morning coffee hour becomes.  Santa Fe’s elevation means that the nights have just a tiny…

  • Santa Fe

    On Wednesday night, the Professor and I enjoy tacos and margaritas at a cantina in a back alley of Montgomery.  Heading back to the room, we pass a half dozen people I recognize…

  • From Agony to Ecstacy

    Forty eight hours ago, nearly to the minute, I put down my number two pencil and closed my test booklet.  From somewhere in the back of the room came a Whoop and a…