What I love most about the holiday season, besides family coming together, is the food.  Growing up in a large family (the youngest of 8 children) the kitchen and meal times were an integral part of who we were, filled with tradition and love; where there was family, there was always good food.

A childhood memory that has had an impact on me as an adult was watching my parents work together to make flour tortillas (I’d help too). My Mother would mix the ingredients, knead the dough, and divid...

New Mexico is famous for its spine-tingling legends, no doubt due to its rich history. Everything from the paranormal with Roswell UFOs and the mysterious Taos Hum, to spiritual apparitions like La Mala Hora and La Llorona.

As a young boy, I used to sit at night and watch small lights moving across the Bartlett Mesa behind our house in Raton.  My siblings used to tell me that the lights were La Llorona traveling across the mesa and that if I didn’t behave she would come and get me!  As the yo...