Haphazard Observations of the Everyday
Miguela Holt y Roybal
- Location
- New Mexico, USA
- Birthday
- March 10
- Title
- Monarch of All She Surveys
- Company
- Good
- Bio
- Miguela Holt y Roybal is my maiden name en Espanol. I am a retired schoolteacher and aspiring author looking for crumbs of beauty among the ruins. My novel has been a work in progress for longer than I care to admit. It is a postmodern pastiche of magical realism and about a young woman from New Mexico who goes to work in Washington, DC during the 1980s. She has been a longtime witness to the secret rituals of the Penitente culture in her home state and learns about herself and redemption as she sallies forth on her quest for novelty and adventure.
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MY RECENT POSTS
- Return to Mars
April 13, 2013 04:18PM - Jaime and Michelle's Reunion:
Photo Essay
October 16, 2012 01:06PM - The Reunion
October 15, 2012 12:09PM - Joel & Jeanne: A New Film by
Katharina Rivilis
August 11, 2012 04:53PM - Delicious Homemade Salsa
July 03, 2012 01:38PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “A transcendental beauty
of a meditation on nature and
human
nature.”
May 01, 2013 06:27PM - “Fantastic!”
April 20, 2013 04:53PM - “I melted with the beauty
of this poem. Your housekeeper
is as
elegant as the
lad…”
April 16, 2013 07:34AM - “I missed this post and
it was a very well deserved
EP. The
old fella's advice
is…”
April 15, 2013 09:21PM - “If only we could.”
April 15, 2013 11:19AM
Miguela Holt y Roybal's Links
Return to Mars
(Chalk art on the sidewalk of the Portales courthouse by Jacob Lee)
New Mexico the Land of Enchantment &nb… Read full post »
Jaime and Michelle's Reunion: Photo Essay
(Michelle and Jaime 2012.)
Party Girls
It would be wrong to think that I was completely glum in the shadows at my fortieth high school reunion last month. My friends know that I am a party girl at heart and my favorite person to party with and pretty much anything… Read full post »
The Reunion
(Group photo of Santa Fe High School's 40th high school reunion. Above: what we saw. Below: what they saw. You won't see me in this shot. I am hiding.)
Day of the Dread
Many people want to forget about their high school years. Some heartaches and the inumerable… Read full post »
Joel & Jeanne: A New Film by Katharina Rivilis
As a school teacher for over twenty years, I have had the pleasure of knowing many talented young people among my students. One young lady, Katharina Rivilis, was a student in my English class at Las Cruces High School and I learned she was visiting New Mexico as a foreign exchange… Read full post »
Delicious Homemade Salsa
Homemade Salsa
I am making burritos for lunch today and we need some picante salsa to make our meal even more delicious. You can tell that I am a lazy cook and bought a quart of pinto beans from the deli. And since my homemade tortillas are shaped like the st… Read full post »
Open Call Repost: Pale Imperfect Diamond
Stepfather's Day: My Pop Victor Izay
"Big in the Business"
My stepfather is Victor Izay, bit player and character actor. He is also a war hero, author, director, playwright, teacher, Shakespeare scholar, clown, gourmand, and bon vivant, and while never quite making the A-List by winning an Oscar or an Emmy, he managed to carve o… Read full post »
The Voluptuous Eye of Artist Mariano Eckert
The Pride of the Dominican Republic
The Dominican artist, Mariano Eckert, was my teacher at the Flower Avenue Art School in Silver Spring, Maryland during the mid 1960s. The small exclusive academy was located in the basement of the home belonging to Mrs. Ruth Dexter Sell… Read full post »
My Art School Maestro: Mariano Eckert
Part I: The Flower Avenue Art School
There was never much money around our house when I was growing up. Much like the house in D. H. Lawrence's "The Rockinghorse Winn… Read full post »
"The Hope of All Nations" Slaughtered
My Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
Let it Rain
Picante Jalapeno Poppers
Easy and delicious hors d'oevres
I have been serving jalapeno poppers to dinner guests at my casa for years and I would like to share this easy recipe with you today. We New Mexicans claim that we will eat chile with anything and the combination of chile with another of my… Read full post »
A Rock and Roll Fairy Tale
(Poster of Jobriath a.d. courtesy of Google Images.)
Elvis, The Beatles, and Jobriath
I consider myself to be sophisticated when it comes to music particularly that of my generation--the 1960s and 1970s. That I had never heard the lovely and idiosyncratic music of Jobriath, the first o… Read full post »
My Favorite Bob Dylan Song
(Illustration "Settlement Out of Court" by Ed Emshwiller from Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1953.)
A Weekend of Science Fiction
Roswell, the renowned crash-landing site of an alien spaceship, is only a two-hour drive from Portales, New Mexico, the Peanu… Read full post »
Writing Lesson from Birthday Boy Jack Kerouac
Astrology and Me
Fashion Emergency!
Since my retirement, I have had to change my mode of daily dress significantly. When I was a high school teacher, I liked to dress up for my students and my standard outfit was a longish straight skirt in a solid neutral and a… Read full post »
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Valentine's Day: A Celebration of Love?
Children all over the United States enjoy a party on Valentine's Day where they decorate boxes with white butcher paper and red heart-shaped doilies into which little cards are distributed by the teachers. I remember those pa… Read full post »
My Top Ten Netflix Streaming Video Suggestions for You
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
This series is an anthology of shorts from the master of suspense featuring an incredible list of actors such as Charles Bronson. John Cassavetes, Joseph Cotten, Bob Crane, Bette Davis, Bruce Dern, Robert Duvall, Cloris Leachman, Jayne Mansfield, Steve McQueen,… Read full post »
The View from My Window
A Majestic Pine Tree Comes Down
I live in a small college town in the student ghetto. My home is almost one hundred years old and the town was built up around it. This is the view from my beautiful bay window--a family home. If you look carefully, yo… Read full post »
USDA Backs Off: La Matanza is On!
Today is the centennial of New Mexico's statehood and this wonderful news comes on a day of great celebration here. At 11:30 a.m., people all over New Mexico will be sounding their car horns for one minute. Feliz Cumpleaños, Nuevo Mexico! Que Viva!
USDA Shuts Down Annual Hispanic Cultural Event
(Painting of La Matanza by Edward Gonzales)
A beloved cultural event with a long history
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