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The good news about the wild and worrisome economy is that it compels us to hunker down at home and spend more time with family. The downside is that the more time we spend at home, the more we begin to notice the rooms that lack a certain luster. »Story,
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At foreclosure auction, a stranger's kindness hits home
DALLAS — Marilyn Mock went to an Oct. 25 foreclosure auction in Dallas as a dutiful parent. She left as a minor celebrity. Now, she's a national hero. »Story,
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Miss Muffet gets over it
The newest distraction on my desk is a plastic sandwich-bag of compost — a word that once summoned ideas of worms, spiders and death. Not long ago, I would have seen that pudgy sack of darkness as the equivalent of, say, a stuffed animal from hell, but it's now poised in the vicinity of a millefiori paperweight, a Russian icon and a framed postcard of Anne Frank's spartan bathroom, and is a reminder that there's a lot of potential in what could wrongly be regarded as a pile of dirt. That bag is a window onto another world. »Story,
Determinism and humus nature
It's a soil-y world, and somebody's got to name it. As it happens, humus and compost are two of a handful of terms whose distinctions have gotten muddy over time. Soil-restoration specialist and nursery owner Michael Martin Meléndrez is in the habit of seeing the trees for the forest; in a phone interview from Las Lunas he provided tips for those who have trouble telling the wheat from the weeds. »Story,
Historic Witter Bynner house on the market
This property, on E. Buena Vista Street at the corner of Old Santa Fe Trail, is one of Santa Fe's history-rich treasures. It was the home for more than four decades of the poet and essayist Witter Bynner. »Story,
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