List/Grid Author Archives: Leslie Linthicum / Of the Journal
Hazy days, smoky skies
The sky at dusk is greenish gray, like the North Atlantic at its choppiest and most moody. Moments later, in the time it takes to walk away from the window... Read more »
A Billboard, a Library and Some Chickens
I have spent the last two weeks ministering to my mother as she hobbles through recovery from a knee replacement, so it’s perhaps no surprise that today’s column concerns itself... Read more »
Route 66 Town Praised In Song
TUCUMCARI – Driving out Interstate 40, as the miles and the barbed wire clicked by, I was playing my own road trip game: Let’s think of words that rhyme with... Read more »
Alamogordo Billboard Blames Ex-Girlfriend
Greg Fultz is a computer tech, a pagan and a fan of Norse mythology who lives in Alamogordo. In recent weeks, he has been called an idiot, a coward, completely... Read more »
Catching Up After the Non-End of the World
The latest big End Times prophecy predicted those with the proper credentials would be transported to heaven last Saturday night and the unworthy left here to weather earthquakes, plagues and... Read more »
Fatal APD Shootings Not Typical in Nation
A woman called me because she was worried about her granddaughter. She had raised the girl, who was now in a spiral of substance abuse, mental illness and violence that... Read more »
Old Records Back to Renovated Building?
Renovation is almost complete on the 1925 Pueblo Revival building that houses Albuquerque’s Special Collections Library, and it is a stunner. In addition to all sorts of systems and structural... Read more »
Funky TorC On Verge Of Big Changes
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES — Spaceport America is huddled in the desert 30 or so miles east of here, a Jetsonesque expanse of concrete, glass and steel. When it opens, the... Read more »
New Gallup Mayor Straight-Shooting ‘Cowboy Hippie’
GALLUP — Let’s look at some of the things the new mayor of this town has not done. He has not thrown a punch at the local newspaper publisher, been... Read more »
Shoes From Heart Keep Son Alive
Pairs of sneakers, mostly Nikes, all size 13, line up in the closet of Lawrence Charles Vargas’ bedroom. Vargas had a lot of things going for him — a nice... Read more »
