Author Archives: Deonne Kahler

Writer, award-winning photographer, and mom to Sam the Wonder Pup. Splits her time between the Black Hills of South Dakota and Taos, New Mexico. On a mission to see every U.S. National Park. Unabashed fan of '80s power ballads and jigsaw puzzles.
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Belfast Is Now the City I’d Move To

I’m a city girl, even though I live in a tiny town, and Taos is about as tiny as it gets with 7,000 people in the town proper.

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Two True Things

Last night I was awake at 3 a.m. thinking about the meaning of life.

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Beach Life

I grew up in San Diego, and my adolescence was bikinis and Boogie Boards and cruising the cliffs in Ocean Beach.

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Leaving the Village

I first ran into Joseph’s Campbell’s work years ago when I heard the phrase “follow your bliss,” which comes from his book The Power of Myth. Here’s the full quote:

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Church & Crystal

Here’s the problem with processing photos you took eight months ago: you forget the details.

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Big Changes on the Way

Today I’m posting another of approximately five jillion possible Ireland photos, this one of the beautiful town of Limerick.

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Derry or Londonderry?

It depends on who you ask.

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If I Can Make It There…

When I was thinking about leaving Oakland in 2004, the only places I could see myself living were Taos and New York City.

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Playing in the Rain

I realize I’m supposed to be posting about the latest Scamps, but the other night it rained in Taos, and I decided to buck the boss – who is, um, me – and share some images from that.

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Moab and Canyonlands

Evocative names for an evocative landscape, don’t you think?

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