Column: The Tough Conversation All Couples Should Have
The Tough Conversation All Couples Should HaveIf asked, most couples would say it’s important to protect the financial future of their families in the event of a spouse’s unexpected death.
Yet 74 percent of couples rarely or never discuss the topic of life insurance as part of their financial planning strategy, according to a 2010 State Farm® Life Insurance Study. A 2011 study from finance research firm LIMRA revealed that 41 percent of U.S. adults don’t even have life insurance.
That doesn’t mean it’s not on their minds. Sixty-two Read More
Column: Low Income Housing IS Available in Los Alamos
Caballo Peak Apartments facing Trinity Drive. Courtesy photo
Column by JULIE SMITH, Property Manager
Despite beliefs to the contrary, Los Alamos does have safe, low income rental housing options.
The Caballo Peak Apartments opened in June 2000 under a Federal Low Income Housing Program. It comprises 40 apartments, 32 of which are designated for low income tenant. There are eight handicap accessible units, seven of which are designated for low income tenants.
General rent is $800 per month, but for those who qualify under the low Read More
Yang: You See Banana, I See Potassium … Part II
You See Banana, I See Potassium: Whose reality is more real? Part IIWe take on many roles simultaneously, and different people see us differently. I am a student of management, a watercolor painter, a gardener, a wife, a mother … I can be simultaneously smart and stupid (don’t say that you have never had such an experience), or I can be both compassionate and stingy.
You get the drift. Most managers are complex people, yet, often, they are regarded in a unidimensional image. The 20 people under one manager most likely have at least 10 different images for this manager. An open-minded Read More
Letter to the Editor: I’m ‘Noisy; Unpleasant Child’s’ Parent
By MANDY MARKSTEINERHannemann’s Music Corner: What I Learned at LAPS
Hannemann’s Music Corner: What I Learned at LAPSThis week we have been treated to some stellar performances of LAPS musicians at all age levels, from fourth graders to, well, our superintendent on trumpet with the fifth grade band, to our graduating seniors and we still have several concerts to go during the last week of school.
Try to make one of the performances if you can, even if, and particularly if, you don’t have a child or grandchild performing.
A few years back, a former Los Alamos band director asked me where I got my music education. I said, “Los Read More
Day Journeys to the Middle of Nowhere: Discovering Madrid
Travel Column by KIRSTEN LASKEYIt’s been said that the most valuable experience while on travel isn’t actually arriving at the destination, but the journey to the destination.
However, while in a small gallery/gift store in Madrid, N.M., I was reminded about an equally important aspect of travel – the memories collected while traveling.
My recent tour of Madrid proved both these statements true. The road to Madrid starts with the bustle and traffic of Santa Fe, but the further my mother and I continued down U.S. 285, U.S. 84 and then N.M. 14, the more the houses and buildings dwindled before disappearing Read More
Letter to the Editor: Thanks for Week Full of Resplendent Examples of Music in Los Alamos
By TINA F. DERRThe band and orchestra were outstanding! And finally, combining them into a symphonic orchestra for the 4th movement of Dvorak’s New World Symphony was just delightful.
The choir was much smaller than I remember. Thank you for introducing me to the unfamiliar
