2 typed pages. Third divorce. Trip to Santa Fe. Supper with Jim Sagel. Meet with divorce judge. Phone calls to Pop and cardiologist. Ft. Burgwin writing workshop. Climb Devisadero.

2 typed pages about my first hike to the top of Lake Fork Peak. A TRIUMPH FOR ME! A great moment in my life and the start of a whole new alpine career that really didn't get off the ground until the 2000s.

59 typed pages and 1 envelope note, almost exclusively grouse hunting. My last season in the hills with my best friend Mike Kimmel who died in September 1997. Also Big Arsenic trout-fishing contest. Working on films. Many visitors, including cousin Véronique (Nito's youngest daughter) from Spain. Dad sick in Texas. Page 60 is an obnoxious envelope note written by Doug Terry about the Anal Arsenic Fishing Contest.

4 typed pages. Though ill, my father came to Albuquerque with his wife Jackie for Thanksgiving that year, November 26-28, 1996. These are notes about the occasion, including words to French songs Pop sang and the limericks he recited.

A Taos veterinarian charged my son a lot to operate on his dog without his permission. When the vet sued to get the money, she also named me, who had nothing to do with the dog, in her suit. So, naturally, I sued to be removed from the case. These 30 court papers (including my letters of protest) tell a typical Taos dysfunctional comic tale.Folder also includes 9 mail receipts for certified letters I sent.

2 typed pages. I have regularly climbed Devisadero, a hiking trail at the mouth of Taos Canyon, since soon after my 1969 arrival here. These are typed notes about typical hikes for an essay on my climbs. (I PUBLISHED A SHORT RIFF, "HIKING DEVISADERO," IN THE MARCH 1999 NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE. SEE ARCHIVAL BOX 96, FOLDER 29.)

5 typed pages. Random comments about life in Taos. Critique of the films English Patient, Jerry McGuire, Secrets and Lies, and the novel Sabbath's Theater. Many friends. Movie job?

This notebook contains: 1.) Several pages of my dad's favorite limericks and songs. 2.) 4 pages of lists of people to whom I sent my annual Christmas letter. 3.) Notes on my Dec. 16, 1996 phone call with Pop, talking about my mother, Monique. 4.) 42 pages of a visit to Pop in Smithville by my brothers, Tim and Dave, and myself, January 21-27, 1997. Our dad was dying. The first time all 4 of us were together in 30 years. The last time, also.

36 typed pages of my brothers, Tim and Dave, and I, visiting our father in Smithville for a week. (See #4 in entry of BLACK MEAD NOTEBOOK just above. This is a typed version of those 42 pages.)

25 typed pages. Random days in May, July, August. Trying to sell Carson land. Work on 2 bad novels. Arizona speech. Many visitors. Organizing archives. Albuquerque Museum reading and "concert" I gave singing my own songs. Trying to earn a living.

39 typed pages. 2 handwritten envelope notes. All about: Grouse hunting in the mountains; trying to inventory my archives for UNM; working on The Voice of the Butterfly novel; death of a friend. I pasted hawk feathers at the end of several entries. Folder includes newspaper article from September Colorado paper about summer rains diminishing splendor of aspens in fall.

Notebook has 5 pages of my archives notes, several pages of phone messages, and 77 pages of diary notes on visiting my dad in Smithville from October 28 to November 7, 1997. This was our last time together before he died. And a rare occasion to be alone together.

43 typed pages. This is a transcript of the BLUE MEAD NOTEBOOK, 1997, mentioned just above. It covers my visit to my father in Smithville from October 28-November 7, 1997.

31 typed pages. Of my typical routine life. Lots of time trying to organize archives coherently. October 11 was another absurd Anal Arsenic Fishing Contest, the first without my friend Mike Kimmel, who died September 22, 1997. I also lost my false teeth...and a friend found them in my driveway 3 days later. Dentist visit. Natalie Goldberg workshop. Folder also includes 3 envelope notes, numbered 1-3, covering October 5-10, 1997.

7 typed pages. (Actually includes one page for January 18, 1998.) Novels don't work. Abel Ferrara ain't interested in American Blood for his movie. Border Book Festival benefit. Flagstaff book fair (See ACTIVITIES FILES, FEBRUARY 6-8, 1998).

14 typed pages. My brother Tim, his wife Helen, and I visited my dying father during March 25-28, 1998. This journal is of entry #8 from the RED MEAD NOTEBOOK, JANUARY-APRIL 1998 just above, recounting the last days I spent with my dad while he was alive.

10 typed pages. Covering the death of my friend Jim Sagel. Also my father dying. Climbing Devisadero. Talk at Taos Library. Contemplate job at UTEP. My hero, Tammy Wynette, dies (newspaper article dated April 7, 1998).

18 typed pages about our family hijinks in Smithville before, during, and after Pop's funeral service, taken from entry #9 in RED MEAD NOTEBOOK listed 3 folders above.

10 typed pages. Work on screenplay and novel. "Milagro" at TCA. Prepare for trip back east to my father's east coast memorial. Lots of family stuff. Jim Sagel memorial.

20 typed pages. Trip on Taos Mesa. Jim Sagel memorial at UNM Taos. Bad mesa development. Slide show. Organizing archives. Taos chores. Watching TV sports. Planting garden. Work on two novels and memoir. Climb Tres Orejas and Devisadero with friends. High school graduation party. Heart problems. Searching for new agent. Send off novel.

15 typed pages. Of our family gathering at William Floyd house in Mastic, New York, where my dad was born on September 17, 1916, and where we buried his ashes beside my mother, Monique's, grave on May 16, 1998.

28 pages. My dad died April 13. My daughter Tania married July 4th. A lovely family gathering and wedding. This folder has: 1.) 18 handwritten pages of my journal of before and after the wedding. 2.) 3-page typed toast to Tania and Marco Harris. 3.) Tania and Marco wedding song, written by me, played by son Luke and me on guitars. 4.) Wedding map. 5.) My 5-page congratulations letter to the bride and groom.

67 pages, all but the first 2 typed. Mostly September, lots of grouse hunting. One August alpine hike. Fishing at Big Arsenic. Working on a novel, The Empanada Brotherhood (not to be published until 2007). Also filmwork on Midnight Return, and a trip to L.A. to meet producers, Bill Panzer and Peter Davis, and Mr. Midnight Express, Billy Hayes. Lost my 3 false front teeth again. Climbed Lake Fork Peak on August 23 with my son Luke, only my second or third time up that mountain. A thrill!