Letter to the Editor: Retain County Parks Director Position
By MIKE WHEELERLos Alamos parks and open spaces are in the best condition they have ever been. Please consider retaining a Parks Director to replace Dick Mcinyre.
For many years we had no parks director (or landscape architect) and the parks and open spaces looked like it. When the county got serious about our appearance and invested in the parks everything quickly changed.
Today the maintenance is up to date, landscaping is beautiful and trails are popular with both citizens and visitors. Don’t take us back to the bad old days. Continue investing in our future with an organization Read More
Hannemann’s Music Corner: Beginning Music – Continuing Music
Hannemann’s Music Corner: Beginning Music – Continuing MusicSummer has near flown and lo and behold the school year is upon us. For many students that means “do I start band or orchestra?” and/or “do I continue with band or orchestra?” It turns out the answer to one is the answer to the other.
After lo these many years I’ve figured out that if you live long enough, you will use everything you ever learned about anything. There comes a time when one can look at where one is and, looking back a bit, ask, “Wow, who knew?” It Read More
How the Hen House Turns: A Memorial For A Tree—An Old Friend
The Neepers say goodbye to beloved elm tree. Courtesy photos
How the Hen House Turns: A Memorial For A Tree—An Old FriendColumn by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.
Our girls called it the Lollypop Tree when we moved into our new (old government) house in 1969.
It stood at least six feet tall on one straight trunk, now a lovely old elm stump two and a half feet in diameter.
The branches on the young tree formed a perfect sphere and stayed that way for years. Miraculously, the tree rounded up after a long spell of single-digit freezes that killed one third of its branches. The wound left a dramatic hole Read More
Help with the Hard Stuff: Managing Student Loans
Help With The Hard Stuff
This column begins a five-part Managing Student Loans series on some things to know and think about in managing student loans.
At this time, student loan debt is the second highest form of consumer debt behind home mortgages and is at the $1.2 trillion dollar mark. Yes, trillion.
Student loans are how many of us got to and through college and some into professional programs and practices. It was almost automatic and usually without much Read More
Column: Sports-Specific Training vs Training Function
Sports-Specific Training vs Training FunctionSports performance is the result of coordinated movement. Pedaling a bicycle, casting a fly rod, swinging a tennis racquet or golf club, and hiking up a mountain all require multiple muscles working together in a specific sequence to create action.
If any link in this chain of musculoskeletal function is not ideal you may experience early fatigue, pain, inefficient technique, loss of power and injury.
The repetitive nature of sport can create muscle compensations and imbalances. Consequently, many athletes have movement Read More
Solo Traveler: From Riches to Rags
Solo Traveler: Riches to RagsAfter a three-month trip to Europe, I told my sister I needed to buy some new clothes. “Halleluiah,” she cried.
She thinks that wearing the same clothes over and over is a sad state of affairs and she loves to shop. She’s convinced shopping will be the cure to my obsession with not having things.
You see, I’ve gone from riches to rags – literally – in my sister’s opinion. I’ve joined the small but growing number of people who want a simpler life.
Simple living begins with having as little as we can get away with and continues with not letting more Read More
Your Money: Do You Have A Social Security Strategy?
Your Money: Do You Have A Social Security Strategy?Last month, I wrote about several Social Security rules or factoids that tend to be widely misunderstood.
The rules themselves can be confusing enough, which is why it’s a good idea to consult a financial planner for some input. By law, employees of the Social Security Administration cannot give advice for your individual situation. Likewise, stockbrokers are largely unfamiliar with these nuances, as they get paid to trade stocks and sell financial “products,” rather than do comprehensive financial planning in their customers’ Read More
