Leonard: Are Your Knees Ready For Ski Season?
By LAURA LEONARD
Doctor of Chiropractic
Los Alamos
The first flakes of the season are falling and visible snow caps on the mountains mean it’s time to start training for the ski season ahead. Whether you’ve been mountain biking, cycling, hiking or running all summer or overloaded at work and ready to get back at it, paying attention to your knees is critical to prevent an early exit from the ski season.
The high-speed nature of skiing along with the restrictive nature of ski boots, results in a higher chance of injuring the structures inside and around the knee joint when compared to other sports. Read More
Fr. Glenn: Valuing The Valuable
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Wow. What a tempest in a teapot this whole Elon-Musk-buying-Twitter thing has stirred up. For some it seemed as joy-filled as the Second Coming, and to others like the end of the world.
Hyperbole and overreaction seem to be the order of the day these days, or at least what’s reported in the media. Of course, most people fall between the extremes—of left and right, of “liberal” and “conservative”, etc.—somewhere along “the average” in ways of looking at things—having a more reasoned and open-minded view. Most people realize that any good idea or theory must not be protected from Read More
Posts From The Road: Animas Forks, Colorado
Duncan House: The Duncan house in Animas Forks, Colo. was the nicest home in town when Animas Forks was a thriving mining community. The two story house was restored during a restoration process in 2013-2014. Visitors can tour the home when Animas Forks is open. The area is open in summer months usually from June through September. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos
Since this is the ghostliest week of the year, I think it is appropriate to feature a tiny ghost town in Colorado. Last week’s Post From the Road featured the scenic beauty Read More
Tales Of Our Times: Myra McCormick Turned The Tables With Knowledge Of Whitewater Creek
Tales of our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water
This sketch of Myra McCormick of Grant County, N.M., was first published in 1991. She passed away in 1999. As her lasting gift to The Nature Conservancy, this sturdy friend of the environment left to them the guest ranch she owned and operated for 41 years with the stipulation that they continue to operate it for a minimum of ten years. As soon as the Nature Conservancy closed the Lodge in 2009, the present owners began hatching plans to purchase and reopen this exquisite jewel on the edge of the Gila Wilderness. A visit to Read More
Gruninger: What Is Inner Relationship Focusing?
Jacci Gruninger MS, C-IAYT
Los Alamos
Focus Coaching (Inner Relationship Focusing/IRF) is a gentle therapeutic practice that allows you to connect to your body’s wisdom with non-judgemental awareness. It involves going inside to explore and inquire for answers that you may not find by thinking alone.
IRF emphasizes being in relationship with all parts of yourself, even the parts that feel uncomfortable, unacceptable, overwhelming, in conflict or disliked. These parts are often hidden or buried, which inhibits our ability to move forward in our lives.
When you work with a Focus Coach, you Read More
Home Country: A Country Evening
Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES
There’s something to be said for the brightness of day, of course, when the energies of the world improve our lot in life.
But for a special time, give me the night. Give me the soft, velvety quiet of a country evening and its own sounds and flavors and scents.
It’s good to hear the night shift take over the part of our world we call home. The coyote yaps off in the brush, calling his family to the hunt, the quail have a soft cluck and rustle down by the creek. The crickets set up the background music for all this in a spooky kind of harmony.
It’s a resting time for most, but for those Read More
McQuiston: How To Handle Hit-And-Run Accidents
By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
Imagine you come out of your favorite restaurant or out of the mall after a day of shopping only to find your bumper hanging off your vehicle. You look around to see if there’s another vehicle with damage because, after all, misery loves company. As luck would have it, this life experience is yours alone to endure.
Your first thought might be to look for someone who may have witnessed the impact, but there is no one around. You check your windshield. No note. Now what?
Hit-and-run accidents are a common occurrence. Many hit-and-run Read More
