by Dr. Elizabeth Ellis
Dogs and cats often love kids, but it may be a ma­jor adjustment, particu­larly if you are just wel­coming a new child in to your household. All of the excitement and anxiety can affect your pet and it is often difficult to predict how your cat or dog will react. It is important to consider how your pet has responded to babies and children in the past as a starting point. For ex­ample, have they been exposed and had positive experiences? Have they displayed fearful or ag­gressive …

When thunderstorms roll across the state, are you hiding under the bed? Do you have sleepless nights before giving a speech? Thunderstorms, giving pre­sentations, riding a roller coaster and taking exami­nations: all of these events can be anxiety producing events. Contrary to popular belief, anxiety does not come from dangerous or painful situations. Anxi­ety actually arises out of your thoughts. In a given situation, it’s the thought of the potential danger, not the danger itself that creates the symptoms of anxiety.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE MY NEMESIS!
Let’s take the example of …

by Ken Hosie
“Meditation Hour” is a public program held each Sunday from 9-10 am at Open Spaces Yoga Center, Ponderosa Village, Lakeside.
Meditation is a spiritual practice. (A “spiritual practice” might best be defined as “a means by which one comes to know oneself.”) To talk about meditation that has as its context something other than a spiritual practice is to not be talking about meditation at all. In the West, meditation is most often confused with relaxation, de-stressing and letting go of the day, but this orientation is a distant …

The Nurses Office in Lakeside will be providing free mammograms through the Mobile Onsite Mammogram bus on August 20, 2010. To qualify for a free mammogram a woman must not have any health insurance. Mammograms save lives and can detect breast cancer at an earlier stage than a woman or her doctor can feel it. The Mobile Onsite Mammogram program also accepts some insurance and cash payment. To make an appointment, call The Nurses Office at 368-0461. The Nurses Office is located at 1757 W. Jackson Lane right next to …

by Justine Wintersmith, Woman About Town
Walking into Ducks on the Pond, everywhere you look there are dozens of things to catch the eye, and one could easily visit the store several times in a single day and STILL keep finding treasures missed on the previous visits! Owner Sammie Haley has been collecting these items for decades just for the purpose of opening the store, and has truly followed her heart when choosing her items. With Sammie’s knack for color and design, the store could easily be considered a work of …

Ah, vacation. That perfect time when we can leave behind our jobs and head out into the country for some rest and relaxation. It’s quite tempting to leave behind our technological gadgets and head out into the wild blue yonder…but doing so might mean you miss out on some of the best deals out there! (Not to mention that you can get hopelessly lost.) Technology can make your sum­mer travels more efficient, more fun and definitely much less expensive. In­trigued? Read on…
Trying to fly got you down? One of …

Shoppes of Pinetop-Lakeside was founded in May, 2010 and is dedicated to promoting local retail businesses as well as creating new opportunities to share marketing and business development plans.
Something wonderful is happening in Pinetop-Lakeside. Local boutique and antique shop owners are coming together to make a difference. They have formed a group, the Shoppes of Pinetop-Lakeside, and the group is presently made up of the following 16 local businesses; The Emporium Mall of Antiques and Treasures, Little Log Cabin, Honey Bear Antiques, The Antique Mercantile Co, Red Door Consignment …

The Believe Show went on the road again to Moseman’s Met­al Works and The Cafe Grotto, Sunday, July 18th. Since JULY focuses on Independence for our country, the BELIEVE SHOW invited some of stron­gest women to share their inspiring stories of success. These special women included AZ Governor Jan Brewer (pre-recorded on Friday by Host Barbara Bruce at City 4 Television); AZ State Senator Sylvia Allen; Dr. Jean Swarthout (shown above with Barbara), Presi­dent of Northland Pioneer College; Kathleen Toomey, Former Engineer & Technical Writer turned Author/Facilitator, and Major Lois …

Main Street Mercantile has been open for over six years and is located in the building that was once Payson’s first drugstore. The Mercantile is owned and operated by Bruce and Carol Itule. “This is our getaway,” smiles Bruce on a warm July afternoon, “I can’t deal with the heat. I couldn’t even deal with it when I was a kid and I come from two very old Arizona families. My wife is a Phoenician who works for the Arizona Republic,” says Bruce (who is a Journalism Professor at the …

Every once in a while (more often if you’re lucky) you meet a character so rich and colorful that it can be intimidating for someone like me to convey the ex­perience of their story and depth of their knowledge on the mere page. Master horseman L. Dutch van Dierendonck is one of them. This September, he will even be an honored volunteer at the World Equestrian Games in Lexington, KY.
Dutch may be a lot of things, but I wouldn’t consider him a cowboy. Maybe it is just because I …