How can you decide what might make next year better? We ran across an interesting article about happiness in the Wall Street Journal last week. (Getting Going, by Jonathan Clements,…
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There is nothing that falls apart as quickly than an abandoned house. There was an old song Rosemary Clooney sang called “This Ol’ House.” Rosemary went on about, “Ain’t got…
On Wednesday, September 27, 2006, students across the nation gathered around their school flagpoles for “See You at the Pole” day. There they experienced a demonstration of the power of…
The plains of eastern New Mexico are marked by distances, vistas and long stretches of highway that seem endless on the horizon. The hills define where forever seems to begin…
We watched the sunset tonight. As the sun descended, the sky turned from golden to a rose color with dark shadows. The reds appeared, then the bright golden lining across…
We watched some of the winter Olympics again this year. So much of the athlete’s life, it turns out, is a family affair. Parents were not only in the stands,…
With the start of the New Year, the birth of the New Year, we’ve been thinking about birthdays. Birthdays offer a time of reflection, an opportunity to count blessings, to…
The Christmas season is a very demanding time of year. There is always so much to do resulting in things you don’t around to. There’s a feeling of being to…
There is a family tradition in our home called “the complete gift.” It’s a simple idea. It’s adding the extra that allows the recipient to immediately enjoy the gift because…
At a party the other day, I heard a newcomer in town explain to a visitor what an arroyo is and does. An arroyo is a dry riverbed that runs…