Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos is a tale of modern adventure about a young man, who experienced the local culture from 1966 to 1987. There he met the community: skiers, La Gente, los vato locos, Chicano activists and their Spanish contemporaries, the artists, drug dealers, fellow soldiers, tempting sirens, the occasional movie star, and a host of con artists. Finally the fool abandoned Taos and returned to university only to return and publish Horse Fly, a monthly journal about politics and art for another decade, which he promises to chronicle in a sequel: Taos Redux: The Horse Fly Years. Bill Whaley, the author of Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos, has pursued adventure as an entrepreneur, and journalist in El Norte for almost fifty years. Recently, he edited Paul O’Connor’s prize-winning photography book, Taos Portraits. Bill teaches courses in literature, philosophy, and writing for the University of New Mexico’s Upper Division Bachelor and Graduate program in Taos. He published a monthly journal about art and culture, Horse Fly, from 1999 to 2009. For his devotion to the local cultura and other stimulating challenges, the so-called Bad Gringo has endured financial failure and suffered the slings and errors of political and prosecutorial misconduct while being memorialized as a figure in a Day of the Dead tableau. If his application to a witness protection plan is accepted, he promises to write a sequel called Taos Redux: The Horse Fly Years, a terrifying comedy of political revenge and retaliation about a pesky insect, called La Mosca.

Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos

Biographies & Memoirs

Whaley, Bill

Historical

Nighthawk Press LLC

Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos is a tale of modern adventure about a young man, who experienced the local culture from 1966 to 1987. There he met the community: skiers, La Gente, los vato locos, Chicano activists and their Spanish contemporaries, the artists, drug dealers, fellow soldiers, tempting sirens, the occasional movie star, and a host of con artists. Finally the fool abandoned Taos and returned to university only to return and publish Horse Fly, a monthly journal about politics and art for another decade, which he promises to chronicle in a sequel: Taos Redux: The Horse Fly Years.

De La Tierra: The Natural World of Northern New Mexico is a fact-filled guide to the wildlife, plants, and unique habitats of Northern New Mexico. Written by Steve Tapia, a retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife employee, De La Tierra is full of good-natured humor and wit.

De La Tierra: The Natural World of Northern New Mexico

Children's Books

Tapia, Steve

Animals

Oikos: Ecology of Northern New Mexico is the fruit of the author’s nearly three decades of wildlife service in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. In it, Steve Tapia—nature columnist for The Taos News and veteran wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Services—shares his knowledge, wit, and experience of local ecology. Ecology studies the relations of living things to their environments and to each other. This book explores the wildlife, botany, landscapes, and ecosystems of Taos and Northern New Mexico. The author’s frequent refrain: “Ain’t nature grand?!” sums up Steve’s awe and reverence for our home, Earth, and his hometown of Taos. Reading Oikos: Ecology of Northern New Mexico, you cannot fail to be moved by the grandeur of nature and its workings. You may be inspired to become a better steward of the home we share with so many species—animal and plant. Before you know it, you might catch the ecology-buzz, too, and find yourself whistling, “Ain’t nature grand?!”

Oikos: Ecology of Northern New Mexico

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

After hitchhiking from Paris to Jerusalem, Jordan in 1967, Iris Keltz had to wait three days for permission to cross a U.N. checkpoint into Jerusalem, Israel. That was enough time for this young Jewish woman from New York to meet a Palestinian poet, musician, and world traveler. After a whirlwind courtship of less than three weeks, they married and were planning their honeymoon when the Six Day War broke out. The day Israeli soldiers barged into the basement apartment where the newlyweds had found sanctuary with other Palestinians, Iris was frozen with fear. She meant to cry out, "I'm Jewish, American and these are my friends." Her silence that day compelled her to write this book.

Unexpected Bride in the Promised Land: Journeys in Palestine and Israel

Keltz, Iris

Community & Culture

Keepin’ On: Living Well with Parkinson’s Disease
Robert J. Silver
Synopsis
Written for fellow Parkinson’s patients, their families, and their friends, Keepin’ On chronicles a life of love, loss, longing, work, sports, travel, friendship, and intimacy—all against the backdrop of progressive Parkinson’s disease. Twenty chapter scenes explore issues ranging from the frustrating unpredictability of prescribed pharmaceuticals; loss of function; hope and inspiration; overcoming challenge; generosity and the kindness of strangers; the helpless concern of friends and family; expert medical care; comic relief; and more. Keepin’ On defiantly rejects the initial prophecy—the crippling of body and mind. It’s one person’s version of a condition that varies widely in its symptomatic expressions. Keepin’ On recounts binds, grinds, and occasional triumphs in a continuing quest for a fulfilling life despite Parkinson’s disease.
The narrative episodes offer an intimate entrée into a world alien to most, where each morning begins in semi-paralysis. As the daily cocktail of medicines takes hold, near normal mobility results, only to revert by day’s end to the immobilized state in which it all began. And though there is nothing funny about Parkinson’s, some of the manuscript’s scenes do relate laughable moments. Examples include walking backward when unable to walk forward; pleading with an imperious ski-school director to understand that the author’s aggressive skiing is actually the disability-driven lack of control; or a new female dance partner mistaking a hand tremor as the author waving to another woman dancer.
The writing is intended to help inoculate Parkinson’s patients against the soul-savaging corrosiveness of hopelessness and despair, and to comfort friends and family—awash in feelings of worried impotence—who love and care for them. In the end, Keepin’ On recounts a refusal to surrender to Parkinson’s and encouragement to Silver’s fellow Parkinson’s patients to keep on keepin’ on.

Keepin' On: Living Well with Parkinson's Disease

Silver, Robert J.

Memoirs

C'MON IN The Water's Fine is a collection of stories of my love affair with being on the water, in the water and under the water in the oceans of the world, a long-lasting tryst that took me well into my seventies. Being Canadian born and growing up in British Columbia, Canada, were the beginnings of challenging and being challenged by this element, but as I drifted down through the corridors of life, my curiosity in exploring the coastlines of many other countries expanded to include our complete dependence on all water sources and their inhabitants. Much of that is at risk with the complexities of global climate change, a subject laced with misunderstanding and/or complete denial. Some view water as an element to be conquered, or perhaps ignored, particularly from the perspective of global climate change. For me, the most compelling feelings were of serenity, wonder, history, and thankfulness, and I feel so fortunate in having had these experiences in times when the respect for waterways seemed much more apparent than currently viewed.Now I share life with my wife, Andrea Heckman, in our home in the hills above Taos, New Mexico, hundreds of miles away from the nearest ocean, but the flow and ebb of the tides still move within me, not only upon reflecting on those days, but also in still living life to its fullest.

C'Mon in the Water's Fine

O'Neil, Ken

Annette and Richard provide inspiration in this book about their retirement pursuit of Rewilding practices for ecological service. In raconteur style, they describe their Taos, New Mexico Homescape cultures and cultivation. Beginning with thoughtful overview of Rewilding philosophy, they take the reader through millennia of people on the land, relationships with trees, horticulture and husbandry, fauna community, culinary wilding, and contemplative initiatives. While their setting and cultural environment are local, they are inspired by profound writers and diverse teachers. This book's sources and themes address experiences and endeavors for applying the principles of Rewilding anywhere.

Homescape Rewilding

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Rubin, Richard And Annette

Gardening & Landscape Design

Living the Leopolds' Mi Casita Ecology

History

Rubin, Richard

Americas

Sacred Spiral

We are the Aspen Song Kids from Taos Pueblo, a beautiful place in Northern New Mexico. Our mission is to preserve our culture, our heritage, our tradition, and our language. We do that through our art. We give our thanks to our elders and our ancestors. Our grandparents and great-grandparents were artists. If it were not for their hard work, we would not be here today. We carry on their legacy. We give thanks to the artists who came before. We get our name, Aspen Song Kids, from our great-great grandfather whose name was Aspen Song. We didn't know him in person as he had passed away before we were born, yet, we honor him with our name. The paintings and stories in this book were created by us, the Aspen Song Kids. Everyday, after school and on the weekends, we walk from the day school to the Pueblo village where we practice our art and practice speaking Tiwa, our native language. We love learning from the elders about the old ways so we may carry on the knowledge to our children and grandchildren in the years to come. We are proud to share our art and to honor Taos Pueblo with this book. - Aspen Song Kids

Aspen Song Kids

Arts & Photography

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Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos

Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos

De La Tierra: The Natural World of Northern New Mexico

Oikos: Ecology of Northern New Mexico

Unexpected Bride in the Promised Land: Journeys in Palestine and Israel

Keepin' On: Living Well with Parkinson's Disease

C'Mon in the Water's Fine

Homescape Rewilding

Living the Leopolds' Mi Casita Ecology

Sacred Spiral