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This journey of discovering bits and pieces of 'Burque has been so much fun. For those of you that missed my post last week, please catch up! The best part of this has been having my d… Continue

I want to have some fun with my fellow DCFers. I've decided to borrow a theme from Matt Lauer of the Today Show,… Continue

Had a great time at the Lavender Festival. By 12:00pm my daughter and I were wilting from the heat. Plus my hair was growing to twice it's normal size because of the humidity. Really wanted to stay and listen to the Rivet Gang,… Continue

I have a secret confession. I love to sing. I love singing in the car, at home while cleaning the house, and whenever the spirit moves me. There’s just this one little problem - I am tone deaf. To say I sing off key is an understatement. And I’ve got the vocal range of about two… Continue

I had big hair, big eyebrows, and big shoulder pads in the Eighties. I listened to The Blasters, Los Lobos, Dwight Yoakam and all the… Continue

Our Awards to You ... er, our Thank Yous to all who made the DCF Porque Burque Art and Craft Extravaganza possible! Picture Perfect Thanks to Deana Nichols for the use of her "Lady of Guadalupe" photo in our ad poster and to Susan See for documenting the 'hanging o… Continue

Our good friend and rock and roll legend Bo Diddley passed away today. I found the following… Continue

Off of a non-descript part of Fourth Street in the North Valley, is a tree lined street where a hidden paradise exists. My cousin Soledad lives on this street and the most spectacular sight awaits you when you walk through her house and into her backyard. What you see is an explosion of c… Continue

You ever have one of those days when everything goes wrong? The elevator at work decided not to work. My office is on the third floor and since my knees were screaming at me today, it was a chore having to drag stuff up and down three flights of stairs. I had to go to… Continue

The best thing about being involved with Duke City Fix is that I have met some of the wild and crazy people that inhabit these cyberspace pages. I’ve met many of these folks through the organization of the… Continue

The Aztecs believed that “the happy dead” visited their relatives in the form of beautiful butterflies to assure the family that all was well. These butterflies flew around the house and around bouquets of flowers... My father would have been 78 years old this past… Continue

Destiny. In the dictionary it states: The inevitable or necessary fate to which a particular person or thing is destined; one's lot; A predetermined course of events considered as something beyond human power or control; The power or agency thought to predetermine events. So… Continue

Martineztown holds a special place in my heart - not because I have ever lived there but because it is where my mother’s story begins. According to one source:…

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It’s wedding season – dresses are being altered, flowers are being ordered, and bands are being booked. Some old traditions will be observed and some new traditions will be started. I was married for eight years and much like my marriage, my non-traditional wedding was short an…

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Being Hispanic but not Catholic always brings a confused look when I say that I was raised Presbyterian. But being a New Mexican means that certain traditions transcend religion. We always make Torta de Huevo for Easter. It is a dish that is traditionally made for Lent, but we eat it i…

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My family was never into wrestling. My dad was a hardcore basketball fan and my mom thought wrestling was silly. What’s strange is that I was connected to wrestling without ever knowing it. Bear with me while I unfold this story. For those of us that grew up in the N…

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I’m a band parent. My daughter is in the Jazz Band at Taft Middle School. It's not a required class or an elective. It's a volunteer band and she's in it because she loves music. This means that I have to have her at school for band practice at 7:20 every morning b…

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The year 2003 was a rough one for me and my family. My father passed away in July of that summer. My uncle died a month later and then my aunt died two months after that. There were times I would go to work in a weird fog and not be able to shake it. I worked in the Old Town area and one of the only ways of coping with it…

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So when was the last time you had a serious make out session? I mean seriously sucking face like a teenager?! And where were your favorite make out spots as a youngster? Many of us native 'Burquenos know that some of the best places are gone, but the memories linger on. On this eve of Valentines Day, it seems appropriate to rem…

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Well, it was bound to happen. Between working lots of extra hours at my new job and then getting very sick, I don't have a post! Although I have many stories waiting to be written, they all require research that I haven't gotten to yet.

So to make up for not having a pos…

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