Blog — New Voodou

I Love A Parade

The parade was always my favorite part of the annual County Fair. As much as I enjoyed watching the colorful show process along Main Street being a part of it are among the highlights of my growing up.

identity, cultureNancy EganAugust 7, 2026Ventura County Fair Parade, Ventura CA, junior majorette, City of Ventura Float, West Side Story, Academy of St. Catherines, Sophomore dance Comments

Ask Me Anything

Over the last few months friends have reached out to me with questions. Not necessarily questions where I might be presumed to have some expertise.

culture, identityNancy EganJuly 16, 2026Fortune telling, Vodou, Random questions Comments

Day of the Dead

I know my way around the cemeteries here in Santa Fe as I spent several months a year ago photographing them. In honor of the Day of the Dead, I offer you a tour.

place, cultureNancy EganOctober 31, 2025day of the dead, dia de los muertos, cemeteries, Santa Fe, Rosario Cemetery, Fairview Cemetery, Cristo Rey Cemetery, Oddfellows Cemetery, Out Lady of Guadalupe Cemetery, marigolds, flor de cempasuchil, All Saints Day, San Miguel d'Allenda, Mexico, Sant Fe Workshops Comments

Falling Leaves

Autumn has arrived in full color. It snuck up on me this year.

placeNancy EganSeptember 30, 2025Autumn, Fall, Sangre de Cristos, Falling leaves, Santa Fe NM Comments

Summer Eating

In June "the peach guy" as most everyone in town refers to him arrived bringing truckloads of wonderful fruits and vegetables from his farm in Palisade, Colorado.

placeNancy EganAugust 31, 2025Palisade, Colorado, Palisades peaches, Rome tomatoes, Olathe corn, The Bread Shop, focaccia, fruit stand, Northern New Mexico, Santa Fe, Sangre de Cristos, summer food Comments

Having My Head Examined

I have a headache. I say this not as a complaint, nor a plea for sympathy, but as a statement of fact.

identityNancy EganJuly 30, 2025Headache Comments

My Mother: A Remembrance

As I was the writing a collection of stories about my much-loved old clothes, my mother emerged as a major character. Her love language was clothing.

identityNancy EganMay 10, 2025Mary Kay Liss, Clothing, Ventura California, Butte Montana, Barstow California, Galasso's Dress Shop, The Red Balloon, Cushing's Disease, Bullock's Wilshire Comments

My Photography Anniversary

Ten years ago this week I began my first photography class, Introduction to Digital Photography at the Santa Fe Workshops.

Celebrating St. Patrick's Day

While my celebrating won't include a parade, I will do my best to honor my family heritage with a good meal, a drink and likely a song or two.

Portraits of My Father as a Young Man

These last few days I have been thinking about my father as February 25 was his birthday.

Welcome the Year of the Snake

I welcome the Lunar New Year with hopes that the snake will help me shed the things I no longer need or want and grow in new ways.

culture, identityNancy EganFebruary 2, 2025Year of the Snake, 2025, Lunar New Year, Chinese Zodiac, transformation, positive change Comments

Keeping a Journal

Last evening Julia Cameron was signing books at Collected Works, a local favorite bookstore. I didn't go as I have attended her workshops several times before and have been writing the "morning pages" she advocates in her book The Artist's Way for 30 years.

Lighting the way

Christmas stories and iconography are full of bright stars, yet there is comfort in the soft glow of the farolitos that dot the landscape and lead us gently to our destinations.

culture, placeNancy EganDecember 17, 2024Farolitos, Luminarias, Christmas lights, Santa Fe, Canyon Road, Candy Cane Lane, Christmas iconography, Christmas stories, small fires Comments

Good Neighbors

I have been contemplating gratitude. Grateful for my family, for my friends from across my life and across the country, and especially grateful these days for the warm and supportive community of neighbors we have here in Santa Fe.

place, identityNancy EganNovember 25, 2024Santa Fe, Zocalo, Ricardo Legorreta, Contemporary architecture, Neighbors, Neighborhood, Butte MT, Santa Monica. Ocean Park, Brookshare Avenue, Brookshire Avenue, Ventura California Comments

Critique

It was as a graduate student in literature at the University of California San Diego that I came to understand the concept of a critique.

identityNancy EganOctober 12, 2024critiqe, photography, graduate school, University of California, UCSD, Frederic Jameson, literature grad student, Santa Fe Community College, Sage Paisner, Marcel Perez Comments

First Stop New York

Reading about the restaurant's recent revival, I was the one who was both amused and proud of my young self on a long-ago night at Le Veau d'Or in New York.

identity, placeNancy EganSeptember 14, 2024New York City, Egan Family, Le Veau d'Or, Texaco, Chrysler Building, France, French, Bronx, Archbishop Thomas Donnelley, Port Authority, Grand Central Terminal, P.J. Clark's, Longchamps, Perfect Rob Roy, Edmund F. Egan Comments

Abroad in Bordeaux

Bordeaux, with its elegant 18th buildings, open public squares, and bustling shopping streets, could not have been more different than the American West, nor more beguiling.

culture, identity, placeNancy EganAugust 18, 2024UC Education Abroad Program, Bordeaux, Universite de Bordeaux, University of California, Talence, Place de la Victoire, Pays Basque, Ascain, Mai 68, Lalande Wines, Rue Abbe de l'Epee, Rue Sainte Catherine, France Comments

Uncle Florry's Will

This week, trying to winnow down a file box overstuffed with my father's papers, I rediscovered a curious, heartwarming copy of Uncle Florry's will.

Old Friends

Class reunions are few and who knows when we might be together again. So we indulged our nostalgia and laughed.

identity, placeNancy EganJune 26, 2024Memorial, Mission Basilica San Buenaventura, Ventura CA, Solimar Beach, Academy of st. Catherine, Reunions, Catholic Mass, riual, amazing Grace Comments

A White Sports Coat and a Pink Carnation

When my prom date Charlie Holtz arrived at the door in a white sports coat, I was waiting in the living room wearing a pink spaghetti strap formal, the most beautiful dress I had ever owned.