Haphazard Observations of the Everyday
Miguela Holt y Roybal
- Location
- New Mexico, USA
- Birthday
- March 10
- Title
- Monarch of All She Surveys
- Company
- Good
- Bio
- Miguela Holt y Roybal is my maiden name en Espanol. I am a retired schoolteacher and aspiring author looking for crumbs of beauty among the ruins. My novel has been a work in progress for longer than I care to admit. It is a postmodern pastiche of magical realism and about a young woman from New Mexico who goes to work in Washington, DC during the 1980s. She has been a longtime witness to the secret rituals of the Penitente culture in her home state and learns about herself and redemption as she sallies forth on her quest for novelty and adventure.
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MY RECENT POSTS
- The Voluptuous Eye of Artist
Mariano Eckert
May 29, 2012 03:49AM - My Art School Maestro:
Mariano Eckert
November 16, 2011 02:53AM - "The Hope of All Nations"
Slaughtered
May 09, 2012 10:35AM - My Glass Menagerie
May 05, 2012 08:54AM - Let it Rain
March 03, 2012 09:19AM
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Miguela Holt y Roybal's Links
The Voluptuous Eye of Artist Mariano Eckert
The Pride of the Dominican Republic
The Dominican artist, Mariano Eckert, was my teacher at the Flower Avenue Art School in Silver Spring, Maryland during the mid 1960s. The small exclusive academy was located in the basement of the home belonging to Mrs. Ruth Dexter Sell… Read full post »
My Art School Maestro: Mariano Eckert
Part I: The Flower Avenue Art School
There was never much money around our house when I was growing up. Much like the house in D. H. Lawrence's "The Rockinghorse Winn… Read full post »
"The Hope of All Nations" Slaughtered
My Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
Let it Rain
Picante Jalapeno Poppers
Easy and delicious hors d'oevres
I have been serving jalapeno poppers to dinner guests at my casa for years and I would like to share this easy recipe with you today. We New Mexicans claim that we will eat chile with anything and the combination of chile with another of my… Read full post »
A Rock and Roll Fairy Tale
(Poster of Jobriath a.d. courtesy of Google Images.)
Elvis, The Beatles, and Jobriath
I consider myself to be sophisticated when it comes to music particularly that of my generation--the 1960s and 1970s. That I had never heard the lovely and idiosyncratic music of Jobriath, the first o… Read full post »
My Favorite Bob Dylan Song
(Illustration "Settlement Out of Court" by Ed Emshwiller from Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1953.)
A Weekend of Science Fiction
Roswell, the renowned crash-landing site of an alien spaceship, is only a two-hour drive from Portales, New Mexico, the Peanu… Read full post »
Writing Lesson from Birthday Boy Jack Kerouac
Astrology and Me
Fashion Emergency!
Since my retirement, I have had to change my mode of daily dress significantly. When I was a high school teacher, I liked to dress up for my students and my standard outfit was a longish straight skirt in a solid neutral and a… Read full post »
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Valentine's Day: A Celebration of Love?
Children all over the United States enjoy a party on Valentine's Day where they decorate boxes with white butcher paper and red heart-shaped doilies into which little cards are distributed by the teachers. I remember those pa… Read full post »
My Top Ten Netflix Streaming Video Suggestions for You
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
This series is an anthology of shorts from the master of suspense featuring an incredible list of actors such as Charles Bronson. John Cassavetes, Joseph Cotten, Bob Crane, Bette Davis, Bruce Dern, Robert Duvall, Cloris Leachman, Jayne Mansfield, Steve McQueen,… Read full post »
The View from My Window
A Majestic Pine Tree Comes Down
I live in a small college town in the student ghetto. My home is almost one hundred years old and the town was built up around it. This is the view from my beautiful bay window--a family home. If you look carefully, yo… Read full post »
USDA Backs Off: La Matanza is On!
Today is the centennial of New Mexico's statehood and this wonderful news comes on a day of great celebration here. At 11:30 a.m., people all over New Mexico will be sounding their car horns for one minute. Feliz Cumpleaños, Nuevo Mexico! Que Viva!
USDA Shuts Down Annual Hispanic Cultural Event
(Painting of La Matanza by Edward Gonzales)
A beloved cultural event with a long history
Bell Bottom Blues: A Photo Essay
On The Ninth Day of Christmas
I feel bad about giving my husband Bob his Christmas present so late this year but my wish was to make him a custom quilt and my sewing projects really take over the whole house. Fabric scraps and tangles of thread are everywhere. With… Read full post »
Seven Things Things I am Surprised I Don't Like
(Painting Number 8 by Jackson Pollock)
Part II of Beth Mann's Open Call
I had to do some think… Read full post »
Explaining the Tea Party: A Photo Essay
(Google Images)
He was a cross between Voltaire and Orwell.
Christopher Hitchens, one of the great thinkers of our time, died in Houston last night after suffering complications from esophageal cancer. The bestselling author, performer, and tireless bon vivant was only sixty-t… Read full post »
My Favorite Scrooge with Razzleberry Dressing
(Illustration of Tiny Tim, Mister Magoo, and Charles Dickens from Darrell Van Critter's blog about Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol.)
A New Gospel
With almost countless adaptations over the years in opera, theatre, television, and film, Charles Dickens' novella A Christm… Read full post »
The Shot I Didn't Get
I know that I am not the only shutterbug who laments the shots that got away. My children have been trained to stop for mom to take her picture when I am around with the camera at various functions and at home; my pets not so… Read full post »
COAS My Bookstore
Just behind the U. S. Post Office in a downtown Las Cruces mall is Coas Bookstore. In this modest building at 317 North Main Street with kind of cute 1960s style puebl… Read full post »
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De Niro and Stallone in Boxing Comedy?
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Cut - (Sex, Drugs and FGM)
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The Hindenburg, A Cancelled Flight
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Skin Story: Dispatch from the Tattoo Show
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Questions of Heaven / After the Ham
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Stabilizing Euro & U.S. Interest:1930's Beggar Thy Neighbor
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curious timing: an elephant writes to craig
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Trying to Force Normal
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