Home Country: Last Person On Earth
Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES
As I lay there in my super-duper borrowed-from-the-Army mummy bag, I had time to think about things. Mostly, I pondered how stupid I’d been to take a dog team out across the North Slope of Alaska in November.
As I can now contemplate, 50 years later, it was a dumb thing to do, making the first crossing north to south from Prudhoe Bay’s frozen oil fields to the Brooks Range. Brooks Range roughly translates to “that frozen rockpile there to the south.”
But even then, in the deadly silence of the arctic, I knew my doing this was… well, me. I guessed at the time it would cost me my life, Read More
Robinson: Rethinking The American Revolution
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2025 New Mexico News Services
The USA is a miracle, and the revolution that made it possible could easily have gone the wrong way. These were a couple of thoughts I had after watching “The American Revolution,” on PBS. Instead of the tidy history I learned in school, the revolution was a sprawling and complex series of events.
What the creators want us to know is that the United States was born of violence and division. And it was as much a civil war as a revolution because a great many colonists were loyal to Britain. They thought rebellion was insanity.
Britain was an Read More
Duplicate Bridge In Los Alamos: Nov. 19, 2025
BRIDGE News:
Former resident Mike Hall played in our Wednesday game this week. Winners this week were Neill Goltz and Jerry Morzinski on Monday, and Jerry Fleming and Cliff Rudy on Wednesday.
Flight B winners were Jan Barnes and Reggie Fuchs on Monday and Reggie Fuchs and Bobby Haynes on Wednesday.
Today’s hand is very competitive, even at the game level, which is unusual. Before you look at the auction and play, look at the four hands and visualize the bidding.
Board 12: West is the dealer and N/S are vulnerable.
West is the dealer and opens 1NT. I would not be surprised if North made a preemptive Read More
Fr. Glenn: Tossing Out Garbage
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
I saw a good inspirational video on social media the other day. It began with a driver’s angry tirade at a cab driver after a narrow miss almost fender bender, and the cabbie simply just smiled and waved back. The passenger asked him how he could be so calm and so friendly in such a situation. Mr. Cabbie quietly responded that people are like garbage trucks—they collect and carry so much frustration, disappointment and anger, and when the garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it—and sometimes it just happens to be on us. But, realizing this pent up emotion is not really targeted Read More
Posts From The Road: Oklahoma Aquarium
Shark Tunnel: The popular shark exhibit and Shark Tank Adventure Tunnel at the Oklahoma Aquarium leads visitors through the 500,000-gallon shark tank, where they can watch sharks swim around and view the largest number of bull sharks living in an aquarium setting anywhere. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Pot-bellied Seahorse: The Pot-bellied Seahorse is a unique fish. that appears to have a head like a horse, tail of a monkey, and fins of a fish. Seahorses are the only known animal where the male gives birth. The brood pouch is used to hold eggs. The female will deposit up to 700 eggs into Read More
All Shall Be Well: Give Thanks In All Circumstances
Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill and The Rev. Lynn Finnegan. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
By The Rev. Lynn Finnegan
Former Associate Rector
Church of the Holy Faith, Santa Fe
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” These words from the apostle Paul were intended to encourage the church in Thessalonica, which was getting a little anxious. Paul, and many Christians in the first century, believed the world would end and they would join Read More
Dannemann: Affordable Care Act Benefits Must Be Preserved
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
“Pre-existing condition.” Remember that term? Fifteen years ago, you heard it all the time on the news. It was the issue that scared the daylights out of millions of Americans who couldn’t get health insurance, or whose insurance was impossibly expensive.
A pre-existing condition might have been asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, a past injury, or any other condition that might increase the patient’s need for future health care.
Pre-existing conditions had been debated in Congress constantly and covered regularly on the news. People Read More
