These essays, culled from the author's eponymous blog begun in 2009 and continuing today, cover a lot of terrain: politics; family life; being a parciante in northern New Mexico; music, art, and literature; profiles; sports; travel; and cultural criticism-anything and everything that "comes via my senses . . . sometimes local in specificity but always global in application." She quotes the great writer J.M. Coetze's explanation for writing his book Diary of a Bad Year: "An opportunity to grumble in public, an opportunity to take magic revenge on the world for declining to conform to my fantasies: how could I refuse?"