The Culture Clash story begins in the 1970s in the village of Placitas, New Mexico at the north end of the Sandia Mountains, where author Kay Matthews built a house and began a family while involved in disputes with the Forest Service over forest management and with real estate developers bent on gentrification. It then moves to El Valle, a land grant village of 20 families at the base of the Pecos Wilderness, where she and her family moved in the early 1990s seeking a more rural life. Here, during the rest of that decade and into the 2000s, the small villages of "el norte" were engaged in...
The Culture Clash story begins in the 1970s in the village of Placitas, New Mexico at the north end of the Sandia Mountains, where author Kay Matthews...
This is Unf*#!ing Believable, begun in 2009 and continuing today, essays in no particular order other than the assault or delight of a particular day. It’s sometimes local in specificity but always global in application. It comes via all my senses: my eyes that read it on the computer screen or see it on TV; my ears that hear it on the radio and in many conversations I have with friends and acquaintances; and my gut, where everything gets churned up and viscerally spit out. In the words of J.M. Coetze, from his book Diary of a Bad Year, his explanation for writing a complaint:...
This is Unf*#!ing Believable, begun in 2009 and continuing today, essays in no particular order other than the assault or delight of a particular d...
