I've sat with, written about, and truly believe that it was not until I had exceeded 10,000 hours of hands-on massage therapy in my private practice, that I BEGAN to have some true mastery over my craft, skill and technique. Now, as I approach 20,000 hours in this field, I'm sinking in deeper to the next level. I love this quote that came through my in-box early this morning:

"... ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with…

• Once Again- Bilingual Vaginas!
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• In a weird twist of convention low self-esteem, OKC is "tired of losing out to Albuquerque"...
• Get your Bilingual Vagina on this weekend!
• Somehow, this…

• Where are they now, Mayor Marty version.
• Glad I'm Not a Kennedy
• AIDS research grant…

• Leader of NHCC to depart and take a new position with the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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• I've been mainlining the "Allergena Zone 6" herbal remedy lately and have been coping with the pollen onslaught. Mitch Coven/Vitality Works news item/biography makes me glad I live at the epicenter of holistic tincture production.
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• Kids these days, breaking INTO school during Spring Break?!
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• Albuquerque…

• Happy St. Patrick's Day Albuquerque! Check out this rather extensive exploration of Irish influence on the…

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As part of the Women and Creativity series for the month of March 2011, I will be joining fellow performance artists Vivian Nesbitt and Linda Martin in a workshop of movement, meditation, and imagination.  It will be a day of inspired creativity,…

• America's Got Talent (and so do some MDC inmates).
• Down with fake chile (and crappy…

• Junior Achievement fostered this cool U.S. Marshals Service job shadowing experience for three local high school students.
• (I want to believe) You have 'til noon to get to Nativo Lodge to…

• Even that bitter jerk who did yesterday's MF wouldn't dare try this.
• ABQ organization receives $720,000 grant to help rural youths get…

• Mark May 28 on your calendar. That's when a WNBA preseason game comes to The Pit.
• Mark June 12 on your calendar. That's when…

• Our portal to the spaceosphere has a new executive director. It's not Marvin the Martian.
• Albuquerque-based, Allen Weh owned CSI Aviation is professing to be…

• Albuquerque No. 31 among in terms of fast food restaurants per capita with 56.7 fast food restaurants per 100,000 people.
• Harrison Schmitt…

• Albuquerque's own eclectic musical fabulousness A Hawk and a Hacksaw were just featured on NPR.
• Many…

• Isotopes Park will be the site of the 2011 Triple-A Baseball…

• The first ever Virgin Hotel by Sir Richard Branson is going to be located in (drum roll please) New Mexico! No really, it is. In Albuquerque…

• Albuquerque has the most parkland per person within city limits in the ENTIRE UNITED STATES - a whopping 2,933 sq. ft per person. That'll show you Portland and your paltry 1,333 sq.ft. per person
• Sandia National Laboratories researcher Richard Murphy named a…

One of Erica Norgaard’s toughest assignments for the next three weeks will be to find medical care for any ailing Wicked cast and crew members. Locating doctors who will take the company’s out-of-state Worker’s Comp insurance for members of the Wicked company is just one of her jobs as company manager.

She also finds places to live for cast and crew as they travel from city to city, arranges for airline tickets between cities, lines…