Over twenty years ago, Jim Belshaw compiled some of his newspaper columns for a book called Semi-Native. As he is not a native New Mexican, Belshaw's wife, who is a native, decided he was entitled to that status. As Belshaw notes, "Something about the place New Mexico] gets inside of you and the next thing you know you've become a Semi-Native. I still am." Belshaw has been a columnist for the Albuquerque Journal for nearly...