Headline from today's LA Daily News: Man steals ambulance from fatal stabbing scene at Downey Library, leads police in pursuit And, for bonus points, a different guy was arrested for the stabbing. Guess the thief just figured "Hey, the cops are distracted and I need some wheels."

We had a furry visitor in our garden this morning.

You looking me? Huh? There's no one else here. You must be looking at me!

This evening at Collected Works bookstore. Two terrific Santa Fe writers: Michael McGarrity in conversation with Douglas Preston.

Hanging out in Santa Fe with my new friend Moe.

Spotted in Santa Fe: a pickup whose owner looked sixty something. Other places go Adolf, SF goes Che.

April 19 in Santa Fe.

Sure, eggs are crazy expensive, but I found a deal on fresh chickens. Cage-free and grain-fed!

By coincidence (or act of a hardboiled god), I stumbled on this last week in Big Star used books (Santa Fe). I've read most of the JT books, but had never heard of this early stand-alone. Different lead, but vintage Bruen voice. RIP to a master.

Theme song for the Ship of Fools. youtube.com/watch?v=R5mA...

Cowgirl Saloon has a message worth sharing.

Simon & Schuster imprint will no longer ask authors to obtain blurbs for their books www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... Thoughts?

My partner brought this home from her medical clinic. Two sides, English & Spanish, reciting 4th & 5th Amendment rights for those questioned to hand to ICE. Quite brilliant, really. Apparently distributed nationwide.

Santa Fe skyline, Saturday.

From The Guardian's "Self and wellbeing" page, my favorite headline of the day: "How writing about female cannibals changed my relationship with food".

Woke up to 5 degrees, "feels like -11." Ruahed out for emergency provisions.

Look what I found in Santa Fe's new B & N!

Whatever time zone this finds you in, Happy New Year!!!

Sunset tonight, Santa Fe

December 23 on the Plaza in Santa Fe!

The Santa Fe sky in my evening walk to the mailbox.

Getting ready!

New Yorker on "Takeover", about Hitler's rise in 1932: "a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to ... someone [without] a majority in an ... election ... whom the ... conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following."

I haven't read this yet, but what a cover! images.app.goo.gl/MQnh3h2zdBQs...

A lovely invitation but a bit premature (I hope).

I've belatedly discovered Allen Eskins through this terrific book. A gripping story of people struggling in the waters of a small town's ugly secrets. images.app.goo.gl/FXYt2oN5u9N9...

Jon Batiste giving us Blueberry Hill (from the Santa Fe Opera House in Sept.). Because times like these could use some joy.

Saw this remarkable film yesterday. Based on Claire Keegan's novel, it's set in a small working class Irish town in 1985. Cillian Murphy is extraordinary. A real life portrait of corrosive oppression in a religious autocracy, with empathy & courage in the face of that.

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