He took things as they came and he never let it get him down. He just kept going and didn't think about the past.

My parents promised to name me Juanita if I lived and to visit the shrine every year.

My parents always laughed that the wagons stopped just long enough to let my grandmother give birth. Pearsall was the nearest town to where he was born so his birth certificate is from there.

We were the only ones on the whole lake, and it was glorious. It was a very well-kept secret.

We came out here to get peaches every year.

big, old rambling house in Corrales.