Live and Learn New Mexico!

Fall approaches and thoughts of returning to school. Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) is planning to implement a hybrid model of remote and in-school learning but parents are worried...teachers are worried... We simply can't do it as we've always done it but we need to get back to life. We have to think outside the box on this one. That has always been my philosophy when it comes to learning. We don't have to be together in one building to learn. We don't have to ship students to one location. Let's flip this thing and send learning out to the students! How it works Rather than ship kids in to the schools with buses, teachers can go out to teach at neighborhood venues where social distancing can be maintained with small groups, places like community centers, skate parks, adult learning centers like Read Write in Moriarty. This plan can work well as part of the overall APS plan to mix online and in-person learning opportunities. I'm just adding another c

April 14, 2021: With the legalization of recreational marijuana, I thought this a good time to re-post this --  I'm not a political person. Politics are very angry and confrontational, and I'm not into all that. I'd rather meet peacefully with people from other countries and solve problems. Why are we competing? We need to pull together and save the planet already. I do, however, want to say that I love that a positive-thinking woman is in the New Mexico Governor's office. Michelle Lujan Grisham wants to legalize recreational marijuana. She knows it heals, not hurts, for most people, and the money spent preventing its use, and criminalizing it, is ridiculous. It's time. my drug of choice I've smoked weed since I was 19, when I met the lovable pothead trombone player who would become my husband in the UNM marching band my second year of college. Marijuana changed my angst-ridden, over-thinking life. I immediately found weed to be calming and healing. My th