Help With The Hard Stuff: ‘Getting Commitment, not just Agreement’
HELP WITH THE HARD STUFF:I think it’s especially hard because Read More
Hofmann: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Offers Insights into Long Term Care
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Offers Insights into Long Term CareConsumers may hear many confusing statements regarding the topic of long term care, both published in the public domain and repeated by misinformed individuals.
Over the next few weeks, I will be submitting a series of columns containing accurate information provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website https:////longtermcare.gov. I encourage you to watch for and read these informative columns.
The LTC Basics #1:
What is Long Term Care?
Most people Read More
Solo Traveler: Why Go Alone?
Solo TravelerThe disadvantages of traveling alone are all too obvious. Nobody knows exactly where you are, who you’re with, or what you are doing.
Without a companion, it can be terribly lonely, especially while traveling in countries with different languages. It can be downright scary if a country has a bad reputation for violence or mistreatment of women. So you rarely hear about the advantages of solo travel.
When traveling with someone, we tend to speak our own language. We share experiences and observations with our companion. We are tourists. Read More
Food on the Hill: Panini with Prosciutto, Peaches and Provolone
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
Directions:
You can get the cheese and the meat at the deli counter, that way you can get as much or as little as you need. Cut and butter Read More
Column: Parents, Children, and Divorce
Parents, Children, and DivorceWith an ever-increasing world population, marriages are becoming more and more common. However, with the increasing number of marriages, there comes a subsequent increase in the number of divorces. Statistics suggest that every one in two marriages will end in divorce, and 40 percent of the children born in this decade will have to experience the marital transition of their parents. Additionally, an abundance of research collected by various groups suggest that children who are present for a marital transition Read More
Pajarito Reads: Local Sci-Fi Writer Carolyn Neeper Explores Creating a Sustainable Society
Column by BONNIE J. GORDONLos Alamos science fiction writer Carolyn Neeper has been contemplating and engaging in interspecies communication for many years.
As readers of her column in the Los Alamos Daily Post, “How the Hen House Turns“ know, Neeper is deeply involved with the animals in her life, be they skunks, dogs or turkeys. It doesn’t hurt that Neeper also is a microbiologist.
“We aren’t unique in our emotional responses,” Neeper said. “We exaggerate our uniqueness. We need to appreciate more that we’re simply a part of it all.”
Neeper has watched the Read More
Yang: Cooperate To Cheat … To Get A Good Grade, Or, To Learn?
Cooperate To Cheat … To Get A Good Grade, Or, To Learn?Here is an interesting read: https:////blogs.kcrw.com/whichwayla/2013/04/cheating-to-learn-how-a-ucla-professor-gamed-a-game-theory-midterm
To sum it up: An UCLA professor of Behavioral Ecology allowed his students to create their own rules for a midterm test. Instead of the usual closed-book test, he told his students a week in advance that they could bring to the test: notes, books, laptop, experts (if they could locate one or two in time), calling former students who had taken this test before … anything not in Read More
