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This article was first published in the Abiquiu News, December 8, 2023
by Melissa J White
I met Rosalía Triana in 2008 at the New Mexico Filmmakers Intensive. We were both in the screenwriting track. When her film, “Epi’s Dilemma” was made, she asked me to design the postcard. When I got my first job as a script supervisor, she taught me...

the war lord
forced off his horse …
cherry blossoms

I’m as conflicted with Christopher Nolan’s movie “Oppenheimer” as the protagonist is with his own internal conflict. The film raises a lot of important questions, and the visual story is fierce, but the telling is flawed.
Having lived in New Mexico over forty years, and in Kyoto for a year, (which, as mentioned in the film, was taken off the list of cities to bomb), I felt a personal pull with a lot of the historical touchpoints. General spoilers ahead, but you already...

My dad, Robert Meredith White, was born in 1910 in Laud, Indiana. He enrolled at Indiana University playing trumpet in the marching band, pre-law. He went into the Marines at age 20, into the signal corps (radio) and was sent to China to guard the international...