We celebrate the life and honor the passing of Claude François, lovingly known as Clodie, (age 73) on September 5th at home with her family after a 6 year long fight with ovarian cancer. She was a French native who made her home in Vallecitos, NM with a quest to express the grandiose beauty of the place and colors through her incredible artwork.
Age 55, a life long Taos resident, passed away unexpectedly on March 17th, 2022. She was born to Mary Macias and Arturo Gonzales on August 16th, 1966.
Call me crazy, but I enjoy public transportation, especially since I’ve moved West where I work at various ski town restaurants. The bus frees me of car payments and parking fees, is usually …
‘Seeing Through the Eyes of Others’ By Andrea M. Heckman Stone Corral Press (2021) “The best photo is the one taken when the camera seemingly ceases to exist and what remains is only …
There are treasures to be found when living without enough money, but it sure doesn’t seem like it at first.
 At first we alternated feeling stupid with feeling ashamed.
Of Ft. Lauderdale Florida and formerly of Taos, lost her courageous 4 month battle with a glioblastoma on July 9th, 2021. She was born in south Florida on February 8th,1954. The eldest of three daughters, she learned to ride horses at an early age, and continued to ride throughout her adult life. Gail graduated from Florida International University earning a BSN in Nursing.
We rested at the foot of the temple, surrounded by some of the tallest craggiest mountains in the world. We watched for snow leopards, who are native to the area. We ate the food we’d carried before we each found a spot to meditate.
We resisted drugs for as long as we could.
Who wouldn't resist a treatment with side effects that included dyskinesia (uncontrollable movement), risky behavior (gambling, promiscuity, fast driving), dementia and death?
Drugs were the first course of action recommended by medical doctors to treat Parkinson's. After Andy had refused them for many years and...
I've found that Ayurveda lives up to its meaning in English, which is, "the science or sacred knowledge of life."
Before we went to India we had dabbled in this science with a local practitioner and two Indian doctors in Albuquerque, without any success.
In India, we met Dr. Nisar Shaikh at the school where we volunteered for two months at a time, for many years...
It's true that we didn't always learn what we thought we were going to learn.
One of the first natural healing for Parkinson's treatments we engaged in was a program in Santa Cruz, California, called PD Recovery. We had read a book, put out online free to all, by Janice Walton Hadlock, who was the founder of this healing project. We understood the concepts and were excited to learn the protocols she and her team were developing.`
