Random Thoughts by Mark Milliorn

Previously, I have written about a couple of grand old hotels:  the Flagship  in Galveston, and the Shamrock Hilton in Houston.  Thinkin...

We have weather!  In southern New Mexico, this is an event worth shouting about.  Usually, we are noted for the absence of weather, at le...

Cleaning my desk the other day, I found an antique.   A picture of a pinewood derby car my son and I built for the Cub Scouts.   What’s-H...

I have previously written a small anecdote concerning Colonel David Hackworth .  After that blog was published, I received enough mail abou...

The budgetary crisis of New Mexico finally sifted down the budgetary maze of state government until it has reached that branch of bureaucra...

I can remember the dilemma of being a teenage boy in the sixties.   While I had an almost unlimited amount of time, I had neither a car n...

Thirty years ago, I was the Resident Manager at the Flagship Hotel on Galveston Island.   As I have written about before (and even before...

The first hint of trouble was when I almost couldn’t get into the driveway.   Several police cars had set up a barricade in front of my hou...

Many years ago, I took several classes in Archaeology as part of a degree in Anthropology.  One of these was a field school.  In other wo...

The campus of Enema U is under assault--we are in danger of being drowned by a tidal wave of administrators.  While they were never rare on...