The Archives of Gardens

The Archives of Gardens

It’s serendipity that Audrey is in Santa Fe the very same week that we pass through on this summer’s Living West tour. Audrey is doing advance work as the President of WLA in 2022 with her co-President, Lisa Tatonetti. We find Audrey in the gardens of the Georgia...
Launching in the Time of Family (Summer 2022)

Launching in the Time of Family (Summer 2022)

It’s official!  At last I write to say we have launched round two of interviews, summer 2022 is rolling. Last summer our travels were focused on doing interviews, connecting with people, and writing the blogs more or less as they came. This time around however,...
Whitehouse, Texas: Retracing the Western Black Family

Whitehouse, Texas: Retracing the Western Black Family

An unseasonal snowstorm flurries around us in Whitehouse. Big white dry flakes spiraling from the sky. Kalenda has flown in from Norman to talk to us about her family homestead, and only José, who by chance wore a jacket, is dressed for cold.  Kalenda smartly pulls a...
Colville Women Were Always in Charge

Colville Women Were Always in Charge

Before we wanted to become good relatives, before Dina and I knew one another at all, we were connected through Panhe –”the place by the water” in the Acjachemen language.  I had written about Panhe in the Surfer Girls book. Dina wrote an entire Master’s...
A Fighting Zapotec Feminism

A Fighting Zapotec Feminism

We begin with Lulu’s garden and with Lulu interviewing me!  “Why do you think the idea of the West persists for us, in North America?  From a Mexican perspective, a child of a migrant,” Lulu says, “the other orientation was north, right? I find it so...