Charlotte Jusinski
Charlotte Jusinski was born and raised in New Jersey. She believes that this fact is vital to understanding her way of being. At age 18 she left the humid confines of her beloved home state and traveled across the country to study poetry, fiction, nonfiction and journalism at the College of Santa Fe, from which she received a BA in 2008. While at CSF, she edited The Independent, the College’s magazine of literary journalism, and served as assistant editor of Glyph, the College’s literary magazine. She was once a finalist and once a winner of the College’s Helman Prize for short fiction, and snagged a second-place Glyph prize for poetry in 2007.
Post-college, Charlotte makes her home in Madrid, New Mexico, where she lives with a rescued pit bull and a cat whom she found under a bush. She still drives like she’s on the East Coast, but has otherwise largely adjusted to a more Santa Fean way of life.
Stories by Charlotte Jusinski
SFR Talk: House Hunter
Author Margaret Moore Booker spent 10 years visiting Santa Fe from the East Coast before she realized that life is too short to put off living in a place you love. She moved from Nantucket to Santa Fe five years ago and hasn’t looked east since. While living in Nantucket, she co-wrote a book about its historical architecture and, shortly after arriving in New Mexico, she began researching The Santa Fe House.
Go Toward the Light
The day before riding the Star Train, I sat down to lunch with Peter Lipscomb and Robert Hoyle, two self-proclaimed “astrononerds” who spend their days talking about the skies and their nights gazing into them.
Pulling Strings
There’s evidence Americans are under the erroneous impression that puppet shows are only for kids. But if the minds behind the Holiday Open House at the New Mexico Museum of Art have their way, adults will get over it and enjoy toys just as much as children do.
The Christmas City
Madrid, NM, and its Christmas light displays were known all over the world during the first few decades of the 20th century. Even Walt Disney is fabled to have been enamored of Madrid, thrilled by its devotion to luminescent displays around the holidays; he spent time in northern New Mexico while filming The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca in Cerrillos in the ’50s.
The Invisible Ones
Cathy Maier Callanan, a professional photographer who cofounded the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, makes her living shooting portraits and wedding albums. But on the side, she uses her craft and passion to help those in need. Her most recent project is Face the Homeless, a series of portraits of homeless adults and children in and around Santa Fe.
SFR Talk: Ahead of the Pack
Animal Protection of New Mexico began as Sangre de Cristo Animal Protection in 1979 and has been run by Executive Director Lisa Jennings since 1993. APNM is responsible for everything from 2007’s cockfighting ban to training New Mexico’s animal-control officers to more effectively fight animal cruelty.
Fierro Verdict Rendered
SFR was present at the First Judicial District courthouse when the verdict in the long, arduous Carlos Fierro case was returned. Last November, the prominent 36-year-old Santa Fe attorney struck and killed William Tenorio outside of what was then WilLee’s Blues Club.
Mystery Man
Tony Hillerman began his career as a journalist for The Santa Fe New Mexican and went on to author more than 30 books, most of which were mystery novels set in New Mexico—more specifically, Navajo lands. Hillerman died last October at the age of 83.
Burning for You
A national inquiry got us wondering what sad stuff people will cast off this week when Old Man Gloom burns. So we called (and emailed) around and asked a few local folks if they would be willing to publicly share their glooms for the year.
A Raw Deal
Deva Khalsa theorizes that as people feel like the economy, the country and their lives are spiraling out of control, they want to take charge of one of the few things they can dictate entirely: What goes into their bodies.
