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12 Apr SPRING SUNDAY: The Wishing Well—A Cautionary Tale
“Don’t let him play so close to the edge!” I warned. “He’s fine,” said my husband. He gets frustrated by my helicopter parenting, the way I constantly hover too close, trying to protect the kids. “Okay,” I fumed. “But he’s gonna fall in.” KERPLOP! He...
10 Apr ALACAZEM 2015.04.09
April 9 to 16, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Saturn Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter It’s howling wind outside and Spring has sprung. I’ve been thinking about the world, and how much it seems to have changed since the Mayan Long Count Calendar end date of December...
04 Mar Second Chance: The Human-Animal Bond Service Learning Project
Dear Pet Column, We are a group of Telluride Middle School students who have chosen Second Chance as the nonprofit organization we want to support through our service learning project. We really connect to the part of your mission that promotes the human-animal bond and...
23 Feb “Birdman” Flies at Oscars
Since we are talking Oscars and “Birdman” in the same sentence, I gotta crow. Here’s the lead to my review of the 41st annual Telluride Film Festival. It’s a bird. It’s a plane – not. It’s “Birdman,” a winged version of Superman and all the other hollow comic...
04 Feb Second Chance: Bring On Your Questions
I was asked to be in charge of the Second Chance Pet Column today. And I was like, “Cool, does it taste good?” Then I learned that sadly you don’t eat a column, you have to punch little keys with your paws to make words… Sigh. But...
30 Jan ALACAZEM 2015.01.29
January 29 to February 5, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn Evening: Venus, Mars Revive, revitalize, recover, recuperate, rejuvenate, regenerate, refresh, recharge, replenish, reactivate, redesign, redefine, reassess, reorganize, research, remember, return… Periods of Mercury retrograde are actually some of my most productive times of the...
23 Jan ALACAZEM 2015.01.22
January 22 to 29, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn Evening: Venus, Mars The January 20th New Moon took place at 0° Aquarius – the earliest possible degree – as the Sun and Moon aligned in symmetry to cross the celestial bridge from Capricorn into...
16 Jan ALACAZEM 2015.01.15
January 15 to 22, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn Evening: Mercury, Venus, Mars It is always amazing to me how things happening here on Earth so closely align with what takes place in the heavens. Of course, I look for it to do so,...