March, 2025 Updated April, 2026 This is my personal blog, Maggie's Musings. I mostly write about things personal to me, not about other people, business, politics etc.... I save that for other social media. Today I decided to make an exception because I can't be a bystander any longer. It's an insult to my integrity to quietly observe wrong-doing and say nothing. It makes me complicit. The lies of a narcissistic community con man are not something my community should keep h

Taos is not how I remembered it. Granted, the last time I was here was the fall of 1991, a few months after I finished high school in Houston and moved to Austin. I had this cool roommate, Cate, who was into world music, being vegetarian, saving the environment, not shaving and wearing Birkenstock clogs with every outfit. Cate was tall, smart and confident. She was an open-minded, curious person who made friends easily and could start up conversations with all kinds of people

It's gone on for four long weeks now. The boys used to like coming home from school. They would throw open the back door, drop their backpacks on the floor and head straight to the pantry for first dibs on snacks. Now they kick around outside in the driveway and in the backyard with the dogs until they can't hold out any longer and come inside what used to be our comfy home. Over the last month it's turned into a dusty and disarrayed house full of cardboard boxes, piles of