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Stories, reflections, and dispatches from a writer’s life in New Mexico.

  • How a Song Inspired My Name and Love for Storytelling

    How a Song Inspired My Name and Love for Storytelling

    The Song That Named Me I’ve always known I was named after a song. At least, that’s what my mom always told me. She grew up in Louisiana, but after she married my dad, they moved to Alaska for his military service. She was young, pregnant with me, and desperately homesick. With my dad at…