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The Olympic Games are magic. I love watching the parade of nations on opening day. Every athlete has a smile wide as a mile because they are parading behind the flag of their country. The younger me did not care so much for the parade; give me the 100-meter dash. Show me the four-man bobsled. But now the mile-wide smiles of each nation’s athletes are far more meaningful, and far more gratifying to me than the standing of any medal ceremony. May the pandemic soon subside and the Olympic parades resume. In every Olympic o...
Recently, I sat in on a Bernalillo County Commission meeting in Albuquerque. It was fascinating to learn how the county works, and as speakers addressing different topics stepped forward with presentations and requests, it was refreshing to see people communicating civilly. The public comments were well-controlled and timed; yet people got to say exactly what they wanted to say, and the others listened respectfully. During the meeting, the Bernalillo County manager called up six people and explained why they had been chosen...
As a full-time federal employee, wife, mother, and daughter, I had enough going on in my life in 2011 when, somewhat spontaneously, I came up with an idea to start a museum dedicated to military families. At that time, my son was deployed to Iraq and I’d joined the ranks of generations upon generations of military families who had a loved one in harm’s way. It was a complicated time with complicated emotions, and my way to deal with them resulted in conceptualizing a museum. As an Army wife and mother, an overseas “br...
