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Smart Design With Suzette: Easy Spring Decorating

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Front Entry. Courtesy photo
 
Smart Design With Suzette
Easy Spring Decorating
By SUZETTE FOX

This time of year everyone is ready to do some spring-cleaning. I know I am. When spring’s breezes inspire you to embrace the new season, use these decorating ideas to freshen up your rooms.

Decorate the front door

This is a great time to rethink your door color. Add a pop of color. Replace an old welcome mat with a new one. Add a wreath and you’re set.

 

Colorful doormat. Courtesy photo
 

Think Nature

Gather nature’s gifts and place them in simple containers around the house. Spring branches, Read More

Pastor Granillo: Hard Things

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By Pastor RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos

Hard Things

I ran into an old high school friend who I hadn’t seen in 20 years. We reminisced about another mutual friend, Mike, who died far too young.

We talked about how everything seemed easy for Mike: getting great grades, learning music, wrestling, socializing, and even getting into the Air Force Academy. It turns out we both felt a bit jealous of him even though the three of us were pretty close.

Looking back I realize that it wasn’t that things were easy for Mike, he just approached things differently than most people. Mike aimed well above normal or average Read More

How The Hen House Turns: Peeper’s Grasshopper

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How the Hen House Turns
Peeper’s Grasshopper
By CAROLYN (CARY) NEEPER Ph.D.

Early in Peeky’s setting I had forgotten to candle her adoptive eggs and throw out the infertile ones. Therefore, her only chick was Peeper, who soon grew into a magnificent game cock with razor-sharp spurs on his legs and a tail that soared with iridescent flecks of gold high above his blood-red comb.

The county was hopping with grasshoppers the year Peeper hatched, and, in order to encourage them, we left the grass high around the chicken pen. Every once in a while one hopper would take off in the wrong direction and provide Read More

Travel The Silk Road With Ethos

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Ethos Percussion Group. Photo by Michael McCarthy

Classical Music World: Ethos

By Ann McLaughlin, Artistic Director
Los Alamos Concert Association

The next Los Alamos Concert Association event featuring the Ethos Percussion Group may have some of you scratching your heads and wondering, “What is a program called Rhythms of the Silk Road doing on a classical music series? The story goes back a long, long way. 

In 1699, the Austrian and the Ottoman Empires signed the Treaty of Karlowitz. Although this marked the beginning of the end for the Ottomans, their diplomatic delegation brought Read More

Living Well Los Alamos: Spring Cleaning Your Kitchen

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Living Well Los Alamos
Spring Cleaning Your Kitchen
By HELEN IDZOREK

When we think of spring cleaning most of us think about cleaning the gutters, washing the windows, shampooing the carpets or sweeping the garage.

Don’t forget about the kitchen when you are making your list of things to get done. Spring is a good time to go through your cupboards, refrigerator and freezer to take stock of what you have and to develop a plan to use up or discard any products that may be past their prime.

The following is a sampling of storage guidelines for best quality. While food may be safe after the suggestions below, Read More

Food On The Hill: Pinon Chile Beans

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A bowl of pinon chile beans. Photo by Felicia Orth
 
By FELICIA ORTH
Los Alamos

I first became aware of Chef Lois Ellen Frank when I watched her cooking demonstration during a Wine and Chile Festival in Santa Fe 25 years ago. She made an exquisite and simple tomato sauce, and the fact that I still remember it so clearly speaks to her profound influence.

Chef Frank, part Kiowa, is a Native food historian, photographer, teacher and culinary anthropologist. You can find her biography, menus and other information on the Red Mesa Cuisine webpage.  

We often go with friends to Santa Fe for “Art Read More

Home Matters With Sarah: Buying And Selling

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Home Matters With Sarah
By SARAH HOSFORD-CAMPBELL

Home Matters  

Two of the biggest real estate transactions most people will undertake in their lifetime is buying and selling a home. Both buying and selling a home are big financial and legal commitments that should not be taken lightly.

Let’s start with buying a home. Whether you are a first time buyer or a seasoned buyer, working with professionals you can trust will make your transaction go as smoothly as possible.

Search the Internet and you will find lots of “10 steps to Buying a House” type articles. These are a good starting points but Read More

Yang: When Science Meets Reality – Part I

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By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

When Science Meets Reality – Part I

“I just want to be left alone to do my work.” A pervasive sentiment at workplace, I am sure; what I am not sure is if it’s more so these days than, say, 20 years ago. 

Since I have been closely affiliated with scientists of one kind or another for the majority of my life, I constantly hear from them uttering that expression, with exasperation and passion. However, I am afraid that unless a scientist is independently wealthy or capable of attracting a wealthy patron, thereby having at his disposal all the equipment and resources that money Read More

Pastor Granillo: He Is Risen Indeed!

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By Pastor RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos

He Is Risen Indeed!

I love watching movies, especially ones that chronicle the transformation of a character. I do not just like the kind where you initially dislike a character but at the movie’s conclusion they suddenly do something that redeems their moral character. Those are fine but they are so predictable that they are cliché.

No, I really look forward to the movie that does a great job of getting the audience to really dislike a character and then, through revelation of their life and their experiences, you find that your dislike has transformed into empathy. Read More

Coaching Café: E-Factor – Limiting Beliefs

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Coaching Café
E-Factor – Limiting Beliefs
By LeAnne Parsons

In the last Coaching Café at Legacy Now Lived column we discussed Self-Fate and how, because we are making choices based on our past experiences, we cannot change our future unless the control of the past is removed.

We need to learn to make conscious choices, choices that are made in the present moment, without all the emotional “baggage” we carry around. You can think of that baggage as being packed in four kinds of suitcases – the “Big 4” energy blocks that we carry around with us that dictate how we see the world and that hold Read More