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As a Zen practitioner since I was 20 years old, I have always felt a deep connection to my spiritual ancestors every time I sit. Even walking to my cushion, I feel the pull of a thick cord of history...

This article was first published in the Abiquiu News, December 8, 2023 by Melissa J White I met Rosalía Triana in 2008 at the New Mexico Filmmakers Intensive. We were both in the screenwriting track...

the war lord forced off his horse cherry blossoms In light of recent developments, specifically the inaugural mugshot of a US president, I’ve been wondering exactly where we might be in the movie...

I’m as conflicted with Christopher Nolan’s movie “Oppenheimer” as the protagonist is with his own internal conflict. The film raises a lot of important questions, and the...

My dad, Robert Meredith White, was born in 1910 in Laud, Indiana. He enrolled at Indiana University playing trumpet in the marching band, pre-law. He went into the Marines at age 20, into the signal...

Saturday mornings in my neighborhood are usually very quiet. A neighbor cutting wood for the winter, the sound of a family building a fence. Rarely screams for help. I got up late. It had been a few...

“Don’t Cry” Sitting in the morning sun in my living room recently, my mind wandered to what people would say at my funeral. I began putting together a playlist in my head of Foo...

In Sensai Kaz and Peter Levitt’s book, The Complete Cold Mountain, (Shambhala, 2018), the legendary hermit poet, Hanshan, or, Cold Mountain, as he is often referred to, is an elusive character, but a...

IT WAS MY FIRST HALLOWEEN PARTY  in college, and although it wasn’t my first introduction to the works of Edgar Allan Poe, it was the first time I felt the full impact of a Gothic horror story...

Last night was the 2014 NM-AZ Book Awards Banquet when the finalists gathered to find out who won in dozens of categories. My first book, “Dizzy Sushi” was in the nonfiction category and I felt...

I was almost finished defrosting the refrigerator when I stuck my nose in the freezer and a rotting smell hit me. I moved the ice cube trays out of the way and saw two large plastic bags in the back...

I watched two movies with women protagonists this weekend. The films couldn’t have been more different, but each in its own way, was a discerning moving portrait. Both women are asked to do the...