Santa Fe is a great place to live if you’re a writer! It seems every other day I meet someone who’s writing, has written, or is planning on writing something. The other day in spin class I learned my teacher edited the papers for the Mark Twain autobiography recently published!

We’ve been here a year and a half now, and I couldn’t feel more blessed. I love this community and all the friends we’ve made; I love that my part time job at the Rotary Club led to a great friendship with a writer who’s now 1/4 of the writing group we started.

Most of all, I love the great thinking-time long walks in the high desert afford, where the view of the mountains is constantly changing. Yes, it’s dry. And windy. And cold in the winter. But I’ve come to learn that living in a harsh climate fuels my creativity–this morning I wrote a micro-fiction about a little girl hunting Easter eggs while her mother gathers up the bloodied remains of a rabbit killed by coyotes. I have high hopes for it, and the life we’ve made here in New Mexico.