By Nellie Curtiss … After the blizzard of December 2023, the skies rested with clouds just floating over the San Juan’s and Sangre de Cristo’s. A home health provider from the county’s options for long term care drove cautiously down the rural road, just off the state highway. The gravel was sometimes visible beneath theContinue reading “Turning onto the highway, she sang O Holy Night”
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Of Christmas past from Rio Grande to Pleiku, Vietnam
By Nellie Curtiss … Christmas Eve 1967 in small town Texas, where water was a big deal, was markedly cold as temperature dropped to 36 degrees on the weather gauge. It was bittersweet though because the children’s stepdaddy stationed at Pleiku AFB, a US Air Force base in South Vietnam couldn’t get leave to comeContinue reading “Of Christmas past from Rio Grande to Pleiku, Vietnam”
A Christmas with faith, hope, and love
By Nellie Curtiss … Just a few hours ago, now, Kathryn Faith Love was born at the small one-floor hospital built into the side of a local mountain. At 8 pounds three ounces, she was the hope of the whole nurses’ station, her parents and all her cousins. As the time zones were all shakingContinue reading “A Christmas with faith, hope, and love”
On the table: honey, pancakes, and eggs
By Nellie Curtiss … One week not too long ago, a little sheep herder found it hard to get out of bed to tend to her flock. It had been a hard few days with a norther that blew into the high desert valley and whooshed sand, loose grass, and pine needles around. Hay tentsContinue reading “On the table: honey, pancakes, and eggs”
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