A View from the Stacks: Change in the Air!
Column by GWEN KALAVAZAOver the next few weeks, you will see some changes at Mesa Public Library as plans get underway to improve the area in front of the library.
Beginning May 1, the road in front of the library will be closed while crews make library drive into a one-way street, running from Oppenheimer Drive toward Fuller Lodge, as well as install a new, larger drive-up book drop. Improvements to sidewalks and crosswalks also are planned.
The primary reason for this project is safety-related. Site lines Read More
Letter to the Editor: Los Alamos – Neither Suicide and Nuclear Weapons nor Sweet Small Town America
By SARAH CHANDLER,Recently I was getting my hair done out of town. When I told the hair dresser that I was from Los Alamos, he said he didn’t know too much about us except that we make nuclear weapons and that our children kill themselves.
For a moment my vision of who we are was erased. Soccer games on Saturdays and Boy Scout food drives and Home Coming Parade perfection disappeared from my few and I was left with a stone cold confirmation that there was some kind of truth in what he saw, an idea I have never permitted to enter me.
Einstein, whose words, in this town anyway, Read More
How The Hen House Turns: A Day In Our Lives
How The Hen House Turns: A Day In Our LivesA beautiful blue-sky day this morning. Bobbi goose has made a lovely round nest in the Hen House and is sitting there with her neck stretched out in the straw. I hope she’s just laying an egg.
Though she normally honks at me while I’m in the pen doing household chores, today on her nest, she doesn’t even flinch as I freshen up the straw. (You know what that means – a long-handle plastic cooking spoon and gloves to toss the clotted straw out.)
Meanwhile, in the Hen House pen, Lucy has been grazing on a handful of alfalfa with Read More
Solo Traveler: When Atheists Pray
Solo TravelerA combi in Mexico is a van, usually a Toyota, with bench seats installed along each wall, behind the driver’s seat, and across the back. Packed solid, they can hold 20 or more people.
Combi drivers have a reputation for crazy fast driving, passing other cars on blind curves, sliding over the yellow line into oncoming traffic. Yet, miraculously, you almost never hear of a combi flying off a cliff and killing everyone. The drivers are just careful enough.
But every once in a while a driver is so bad you know your time on earth is limited, Read More
Help With The Hard Stuff: ‘Contain if Necessary’
HELP WITH THE HARD STUFF:
My last column continued William Uri’s “third-sider” roles lawyers can play that might help you with the hard stuff, focusing on the “resolve” roles of Mediator, Arbiter, Equalizer, and Healer.
This week I want to talk about Uri’s “contain” roles of Witness, Referee, and Peacekeeper, and also a hybrid activity I believe exists especially within the context of what can be called “Divorce Wars”: equalization and containment.
I agree with Uri that “unresolved conflict escalates because no one is paying attention Read More
Money IQ: The 5 C’s of Mortgage Banking
Money IQThe 5 C’s of Mortgage Banking
The five most important items when evaluating a mortgage loan application are described below: Characteristics, Capacity, Cash to Close, Character (credit) and Collateral.
Explaining the 5C’s in an understandable method is the most important tool to ensure a great customer experience.
Characteristics
In mortgage lending characteristics are described as follows. It is the intent on every loan application to be able to describe the following.
1. What type of product is the customer applying for and knowing all of the requirements Read More
Letter to the Editor: Only One Site Creates ‘Ambient Repose’
By JOEL M. WILLIAMSWhile the leaders of the County profess a desire to make Los Alamos a more desirable “destination,” it strikes me that none of the places to stay have any ambience to make anyone want to spend even a single night here.
Low level shot: by csturgeo (Selected for Google Earth Read More
