Weekly Photo Challenge: Silence

  Shiprock, or Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" in Navajo, stands alone in the northwestern New Mexico desert. It is within the Navajo Nation, and is sacred to their people, playing a part in many Navajo legends. Shiprock is a volcanic formation, made of rocks that solidified underground in the throat of a volcano about 27 million …

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A Christmas Carol in Denver 2017: Review

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens * Adapted by Richard Hellesen * Music by David de Berry * Directed by Melissa Rain Anderson * DCPA Theatre Company at the Stage Theatre, 12/20/17 Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843. It quickly became such a success that the novella hasn't been out of print since. …

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Day Trip to White Sands National Monument

Over this past Thanksgiving weekend, Mr Metawitches and I took a day trip from Albuquerque down to the White Sands National Monument. The monument is adjacent to Alamogordo, NM and White Sands Missile Range, which will be familiar to history buffs as the location of the Trinity Site, where the first atomic blast in history …

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