Winter 2021 – 2022
Embracing the Safe Outdoors
Embracing the Safe Outdoors Don’t let winter keep you cooped up in places where viruses thrive. Over the last two trying years, I’ve often remarked how fortunate I feel that my family and friends are already enthralled with the safest place to be: outside. In the...
A Whole New World
A Whole New World A Santa Fe teen embraces the chance to learn overseas. Most teenagers fantasize about turning 18. We’re told everything changes once you become an adult, and 18 is the magical age at which we gain our freedom by leaving home and heading off to...
Let’s Get This Tamale Party Rolling!
Let’s Get This Tamale Party Rolling! Cooking with Kids shares simple steps for this New Mexico favorite. Join the tamalada! (That’s a tamale party.) The best way to make tamales is to have everyone help out — plus it’s a lot of fun! Little hands can help measure and...
Horns, Antlers and Attracting the Ladies
Horns, Antlers and Attracting the Ladies (And a surprise about Santa’s reindeer!) Winter has finally arrived in New Mexico! The leaves have finished changing and most trees are bare. Migrating birds have finished their travels to warmer areas further south,...
The Children’s Hour: Any Time, Anywhere
The Children’s Hour: Any Time, Anywhere Radio show created in Albuquerque is now carried on airwaves across the country and beyond. When Katie Stone created The Children’s Hour radio show, an award-winning Saturday morning staple on KUNM-FM, she knew kids should be a...
Picture Book Inspires New School-Goers
Picture Book Inspires New School-Goers With schools now open in person again, feelings of fear and uncertainty among children and parents are undoubtedly still present. Fearless Beans, a lighthearted story about a sweet white dog named Beans who faces the anxiety of...
Calling All Caregivers
Calling All Caregivers New Mexico is facing a child care shortage, but there’s support for those willing to step up. Do you love kids? Do you love kids so much that staying home and looking after young children sounds like a dream come true? For Alejandra Lujan, this...