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Scope and Contents This BROWN "FAUX ALLIGATOR" ALBUM contains 402 mostly yellow message slips largely written by Juanita Nichols between February 20, 1987 and August 12, 1988. To identify a few of the names mentioned which may not be clarified in the actual message scribbles: Perry Knowlton, my agent at Curtis Brown in NY; Philip and Mary-Ann Hobel, producers connected to CBS working on my Pancho Villa TV mini-series; Sarah McFall, publicist at my publisher, Henry Holt; Kelly Lovato, Chicano activist...

Scope and Contents This BLACK "FAUX ALLIGATOR" ALBUM has 241 (I think!) yellow message slips dating from August 15, 1988 to June 29, 1990 mostly written by Juanita Nichols. And there's one final message from Alisa Valdés in Boston on June 24, 1992. To identify a few names: Larry Schreiber, my Taos doctor and head of adoption agency, Child-Rite--I was on the board; Tom Tyson, producer on Wizard movie; Kelly Lovato, see above; Peter Biskind, see above; Flo Walker, Taos Nuclear Freeze activist; John...

Scope and Contents 156 pages. I was still working on Midnight Return script; trying to sell Voice of the Butterfly through a new agent, Kathy Anderson; working with Beth Hadas at UNM Press to put together a collection of my essays, "Dancing on the Stones." Same old, same old. I went to Texas in August to put my father's large archives into a Smithville storage locker. Identification of some names, some old, most new: Emily Ruffin, Taos jeweler; Bonnie Zirkel, Taos realtor; John Hunt, Taos builder with...

Scope and Contents 177 pages. This year I published Dancing on the Stones, my first book published since 1994. I went to Texas and hauled my dad's archives back to Taos in a U-Haul. Too, I wrote a long essay, An American Child Supreme for Milkweed Editions and also finally sold The Voice of the Butterfly. The latter two books were published in 2001. This is year I also got honorary degree from UNM during terrible Los Alamos fires, and honorary degree from Hamilton, where I traveled in late May. I...

Scope and Contents 155 pages. Busy year. I published two books, and did a book tour off and on from the end of May into August for Voice of the Butterfly. Then wrote a manic book on the book tour, Midlist Writer, etc. My daughter Tania had her second child, Sierra. I burned out from the book tour. 9/11 happened. I cancelled my final tour appearance in Toronto and started fanatical alpine hiking. Lots of heart problems also. Here's identification of a few more names, although most of the people who...

Scope and Contents 162 pages. Mostly during this year I climbed mountains in the Wheeler Peak Wilderness. I kept working on books, most notably my Midlist Writer botched effort, and another misguided novel called Toby's Aleph (then it became On Top of Spoon Mountain), and a small novel, The Empanada Brotherhood. I traveled out to give talks in Colorado Springs, Telluride, the Raices del Rio Abajo fiesta in Belen, the Rocky Mountain Book Festival in Denver, and at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. But...

Scope and Contents 145 pages. I floundered working on two novels and a non-fiction book this year, gave a few anti-war speeches in Taos, and made outside addresses in Colorado Springs, Boulder, Santa Fe, Oregon State in Corvallis, to the Taos Soil and Conservation, and at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania. Then I visited family and friends in New York. I spent much of the year hiking high mountains. Snowshoe'd lots in the winter, including following Brian Long who had radio collars on several pine...

Scope and Contents 173 pages. Another relatively quiet year of mountain climbing, non-productive novel writing (Spoon Mountain, Empanada Brotherhood), reduced paticipation in outside public venues. A couple anti-war rallies, also a few political talks in support of Kerry for President. I attended an Arizona State writers conference; the Hassayampa Institute in Prescott, AZ; and went to a Canyonlands benefit in Moab, Utah commemorating 15 years since Ed Abbey's death. One big talk I gave was at a benefit in Nambe,...

Scope and Contents 168 pages. I'm running out of oomph to keep inventorying phone messages. The ID lists are getting out of hand. Only 2 more years to go after this, will I make it? 2005 was another one of plodding forward on writing projects (no end to them in sight), lots of high country hiking, and a few public events like a speech to prevent gas drilling in the Valle Vidal, water talk at UNM, speech to Anthropologist Convention in S.Fe, screenwriting workshop at National Hispanic Cultural Center,...

Scope and Contents 150 pages. Another pretty quiet year for me. Far as I know the only time I went out was up to Denver for a few days of One Book, One Denver (Milagro) activities. Otherwise, I stayed home, made a few anti-war speeches, and kept slogging on a couple novels and non-fiction work. And actually sold The Empanada Brotherhood, which would be published in 2007 by Chronicle Books in San Francisco. Phone messages, again, are mostly from a handful of longtime friends. Some more...

Scope and Contents 211 pages. I gave a few talks in Taos this year, and did one outside gig, interviewing Martín Espada for the Lannan Foundation on stage in Santa Fe. Otherwise, I stayed quiet and stayed at home. A new novel, The Empanada Brotherhood, was published by Chronicle Books. Otherwise, I kept hiking, plodding along on my Spoon Mountain novel that ultimately segued into a short-story published by Orion Magazine. There are many pages of phone messages, but, again, they're mostly from a small...