Hello, all! I hope everyone’s summer is off to a great start. I wanted to drop a little note here to let you know I’m going to be offline and on a bit of a vacation for a couple of weeks. I haven’t forgotten you, just recharging the batteries. Be well, and be happy. alisa
Cowboy in Training
May 24, 2012 10 Comments
So, we’re living in our new house in the city, my son and I. The cowboy came up from the ranch last weekend to help do things like install the gas dryer, teaching my son as he went. Yesterday, two days after the cowboy left the city to go back to the ranch, my kid [...]
What Life Has Taught Me
May 23, 2012 13 Comments
I’ve spent the better part of the past week moving into a new house in Albuquerque. For the first time in more than two years, I’m settled in a place large enough to regroup all of my various items from storage. Among the things I’ve discovered in unpacking my boxes are a little stack of [...]
Letting the Stronger Person Lead
May 22, 2012 4 Comments
One of the many things I discuss at length in my forthcoming memoir (LEARNING TO SUBMIT, out January 3, 2013 from Gotham Books) is how I learned to trust the cowboy to be in charge — and bit by bit, let him. Few things in my life have been as liberating to my spirit as [...]
On Leading Cows, Cowboys, and Marriage
May 14, 2012 21 Comments
Okay. So I tried to understand what the cowboy was telling me about “leading” cows as opposed to “pushing” them…his symbolic way of trying to give me advice about how best to approach independent cowboys like him when you want them to do something like, oh I don’t know, marry you. Here’s an email he [...]
3 Things I’ve Been Wrong About Lately
May 14, 2012 20 Comments
1. It was wrong to think I could put a “fun little post” on this blog about how SOME things were better in “the old days”. I should have known it would be difficult for SOME people to read the word SOME and take it to mean, well, SOME. I should have known that if [...]
Better in the Old Days
May 7, 2012 75 Comments
Before I met the cowboy, I was a typical progressive who thought the only things that were better in the “old days” were water and air. Everything else was oppressive and demeaning and needed changing. But I have started to realize there are lots of things that were better in the past. Some of these [...]
In Honor of Cinco del Mayo, Some Mexican Cowboy Eye and Ear Candy
May 5, 2012 2 Comments
Back when I was covering the Latin music industry for the Los Angeles Times, I had the pleasure of interviewing Alejandro Fernandez, a top Mexican singer. Like his famous father Vicente, Alejandro often performs in full charro (cowboy) gear, and sometimes even does so horseback. Just another reminder of how much the US and Mexico [...]
Memorial Day Musings
Fallen soldier, today I think of you, who gave your life for me, for us. You are young, and old, tall and short, male, female, human and animal. The one thing you all have in common is that your spirit rose up and up, and you went away, so that this morning I could do [...]