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Warm Soup Kind of a Weekend

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I think it’s gonna be a Warm Soup kind of a weekend

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Jamie Oliver’s Store Cupboard Lentil Soup

Cool Pick of the Week: 

  • Casa Milagros’s Inaugural Annual Fundraiser – Sun. Apr. 30, 2 – 5 pm, 49 Camino Bajo, Santa Fe. If you have never been to Casa Milagro you will not want to miss this opportunity to experience this special place.  Bring your dancing shoes because The Joe West Band will be playing. Appetizers from the amazing Ranch House, Casa Milagro made desserts and non-alcoholic beverages will be served. This is a family friendly environment.  On view will be art created by the residents, many of whom have exhibited at their Inside Out Art Show. Cost is $25.00 per person,kids 12 & under are free. If you cannot attend but would like to support Casa Milagro, mail your check to 49 Camino Bajo, Santa Fe NM 87508, or at casamilagrosantafe.org & donate through paypal. 

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  • Mark your calendars for the next meeting of 100 Women Who Care Tuesday, May 2, 6-7pm at the Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez. We’ll put the names of local non-profits in a hat & draw out 3. We’ll hear a short presentation from each, then vote. Whichever one wins, we each write a check for $100 & raise $10,000 in one hour! If $100 is a bit too much, bring a friend & join as a team!
  • Social Media Revamp –  Join this event to learn from a leader in the field of content strategy & digital marketing! Events are valuable for businesses and professionals of all levels. Wed, May 3, 9 – noon, Hyatt Place, 4320 Cerrillos Rd – Special Promo for Cool List Subscribers: enter the promo code Santa Fe VIP for a $20 discount.
  • Registration Open for SFCC course LANDING A LITERARY AGENT with Irene Kraas. Learn multiple ways of approaching and landing an agent. What can you expect an agent to do for you? Write a query letter that commands attention. Identify what agents and publishers are looking for, and more. The course meets for 4 weeks on Wednesdays from 1-4 beginning July 20th. You can register online or by phone at 428-1676 and in person in Room 131.

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Coconut Macaroon Birds’ Nests

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Cool Pick of the Week: 

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Film & Panel Discussion –  Antarctica Ice & Sky with a post film panel discussion will feature scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory who study Antarctic ice sheets and their relationship to global climate models.  A portion of the ticket proceeds will be donated to Climate Masters and the Santa Fe Watershed Association. Violet Crown, Wed. Apr. 19th at 6:30 PM.

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  • Last Chance to RSVP for Apr. 19 Santa Fe Women to Women Luncheon. Guest speaker will be author Janie Chodosh, talking about her life as a writer and her latest book Wild Lives: Leading Conservationists on the Animals and Planet They Love. Wed. Apr. 19, Noon at Cowgirl, $25 at the door. Email: Jodyville@yahoo.com to reserve your seat. Don’t forget to bring a book donation for the Free Little Library at Pasatiempo Senior Center!
  • Book Talk from author, Heloise Jones: The Writer’s Block Myth – A Guide to Get Past Stuck & Experience Lasting Creative Freedom. You’ll glean insights and tools to help you move forward. Sat., Apr. 15, 2 – 3 pm, SF Library – Main Branch
  • Silver Bullet Productions, a non profit educational film company, is presenting a benefit concert with Doug Montgomery and Maura Dhu Studi at Vanessie to raise funds for underserved communities, schools, and tribes. Wed. Apr. 19th, 6:00 pm

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Springtime in Santa Fe

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photo credit: Katie Rountree

Trailer for Seagull

Seagull-PosterjpgAt the March SFW2W luncheon, 2 Cats Productions presented the trailer for their new short film, Seagull. In case you missed it, here is the link: https://vimeo.com/209470106

2 Cats Productions is the collaboration between New Mexico Writer/Producer Catherine Fridey & New Mexico Actor/Director Catharine Pilafas. Between the two, they wrote, directed, produced and starred in the six minute short film that they are now hoping to take to film festivals. If you’d like to help these creative and talented women by sponsoring a film fest application fee (anywhere from $25 to $100 per application) they’d love your help. Contact Catherine Fridey at chezantoinette@gmail.com or Catharine Pilafas at catharine.ep@gmail.com

Cool Pick of the Week: 

  • Change Yourself, Change Your Life. The Ultimate Mind Workshop with Dr. Mao Shing Ni, doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, a best-selling author, board-certified anti-aging specialist and co-founder of Yo San University and the Tao of Wellness, award-winning centers for acupuncture and integrative medicine with offices in Southern California. He’ll be in Santa Fe for a one-day workshop Sun., Apr. 9,  9 am – 5 pm at the IHM Retreat Center,  50 Mt. Carmel Road – you can register here: https://infinichi.com/

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  • Mark you calendars for Ap. 19 & RSVP for the next Santa Fe Women to Women Luncheon. Guest speaker will be author Janie Chodosh, talking about her life as a writer and her latest book Wild Lives: Leading Conservationists on the Animals and Planet They Love. Wed. Apr. 19, Noon at Cowgirl, $25 at the door. Email: Jodyville@yahoo.com to reserve your seat
  • Free Little Library at Pasatiempo Senior Center – Bring books to donate to the next SFW2W Luncheon on Apr. 19 or contact Layne Vickers Smith, email santafepotter@comcast.net to schedule a pick up.
  • New Gallery in Town! Stop in sometime to the new 7 Arts Gallery at 125 Lincoln. It’s an artist-to-public art gallery and studio…think farm-to-table restaurant, and one of our 100 Women Who Care members, Karen Milstein is an artist there. See the gallery & works-in-progress in the studio area – kinda cool!
  • Book Talk from author, Heloise Jones: The Writer’s Block Myth – A Guide to Get Past Stuck & Experience Lasting Creative Freedom. You’ll glean insights and tools to help you move forward. Sat., Apr. 15, 2 – 3 pm, SF Library – Main Branch

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    Zucchini, Feta, Mint Quiche

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Forsythias in Bloom

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photo credit: Katie Rountree

Cool Pick of the Week: 

  • Using Public Records Like an Investigative Journalist: Using the state’s public record laws, Peter St. Cyr, Director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, has cut through political spin, uncovered corruption and exposed fraud. Hear examples of how public records helped expose a corrupt state senator, revealed cronyism in New Mexico’s medical cannabis program, and how New Mexico’s top open government advocate is working to strengthen and defend transparency at all levels of government. Sunday, April 2nd at Collected Works 11AM. Free

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  • Your application is due today…The Santa Fe Chapter of the Awesome Foundation is accepting applications for a $1,000 micro-grant that will be awarded to invest in a local project that aims to make Santa Fe a better place to live, work, and play. The grant is open to individuals and groups with no prerequisites.Applications are due by March 31, 2017, with the grant to be awarded in late May. Apply online at http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/santafe or email santafe@awesomefoundation.org for more information.
  • Mark you calendars & RSVP for the next Santa Fe Women to Women Luncheon. Guest speaker will be author Janie Chodosh, talking about her life as a writer and her latest book Wild Lives: Leading Conservationists on the Animals and Planet They Love. Wed. Apr. 19, Noon at Cowgirl, $25 at the door. Email: Jodyville@yahoo.com to reserve your seat
  • Free Little Library at Pasatiempo Senior Center – Bring books to donate to the next SFW2W Luncheon on Apr. 19 or contact Layne Vickers Smith, email santafepotter@comcast.net to schedule a pick up.
  • Today, March 31st, is the LAST DAY to Nominate Ms. Cohen’s Homeschool Classroom for Best Elementary School in Santa Fe at: http://sfreporter.secondstreetapp.com/l/Santa-Fe-Reporters-Best-of-Santa-Fe-2017. Please write them under Best Elementary School if you support individualized, affordable, multicultural, innovative, alternative, supportive, loving multi-age classrooms!

  • Irene Kraas is Currently Reading

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    and loving it! What are you reading and loving? Let me know & I’ll share.

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Happy 1st Day of Spring!

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ducksHappy 1st Day of Spring!

Cool Pick of the Week:

  • Free Talk from the Santa Fe Chapter of the Native Plant Society of New Mexico, entitled “Plants of the Jemez Mountains”, Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 6:30 pm at Christ Lutheran Church, by Dr. Chick Keller, who will discuss his work and show some of the more interesting plants discovered in the Jemez Mountains.

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  • Last chance to RSVP for Santa Fe Women to Women Luncheon with Guest Speaker, Catherine Fridey,Film Producer/Director, talking about  her latest project, Seagull, a short film she wrote, co-produced, and stars in. Wed. March 22, Noon at Cowgirl, $25 at the door. Email: Jodyville@yahoo.comto reserve your seat
  • Author talk by Heloise Jones, author of The Writer’s Block Myth – A Guide to Get Past Stuck & Experience Lasting Creative Freedom  Her book, written for people living in the real world, is a guide like no other out there on the topic of writing and creativity. SW Writers in Albuquerque Tuesday March 21st at 7:00 p.m.
  •  Gerald Hausman, poet and author of more than 70 books for children and adults, will read from his book Island Dreams: Selected Poems, Tuesday, March 28 at SFCC Peterson Student Center, Senior Common room 7 – 9 p.m.

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OscarTime

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Who are your picks for the Oscars? Download your ballot here AND get the recipe to make these golden Oscar cookies from glucrafted.com

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Cool Pick of the Week:

  • code-redBook Release Event!
    Santa Fe author Janie Chodosh will be at Collected Works (202 Galisteo) for CODE RED book release event! There will be a staged reading by students from New Mexico School for the Arts as well as door prizes. Five percent of all sales will be donated to the Santa Fe Girls’ School. Saturday, February 25th, 6 pm

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  • Defenders of Wildlife is sponsoring a free talk by Dr. Sarma, the elephant doctor of India at the Santa Fe Main Library, Thursday, March 2 at 6 pm
  • Spring Poetry Search from the Santa Fe Reporter WIN $100 in cash or one of two prize packages and see your winning poem published in SFR next month. Entry deadline, March 1 at midnight. Click here to enter.
  • During the 100 Women Who Care in Santa Fe Meeting that was held on Tues. Feb. 7, we voted to support the Santa Fe Girls School. If you are a member but were unable to attend the meeting, please mail your check to Katie Rountree today, making your check payable to Santa Fe Girls School. If you need Katie’s address email her here.

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Love Me Some Snow

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Cool Pick of the Week:

  • Daughters of the Dust directed & written by Julia Dash (25th anniversary restoration) showing this week at The Screen

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  • Please join us for the Santa Fe Women to Women Monthly Lunch – a way to meet women in Santa Fe, share stories, exchange ideas and make new friends. Wed. Jan. 25 at noon at Cowgirl. RSVP to jodyville@yahoo.com. $25 cash at the door. Our guest speaker this month will be Jamie Douglass talking about the Santa Fe Neighbors Village.
  • We have a handful of people interested in starting a writers’ group. If you are interested, now is the time to let me know: jodyville@yahoo.com.
  • 2nd Annual Winter Fabric & Pottery Sale by Janet Lever-Wood & Marguerite Wilson, Sat. Jan. 28 – Sun. Jan. 29 10 – 5. 9 Fido Lane, or call 505-670-8219 for an appointment
  • If you’re looking for someone to do Home Remodeling Projects big or small, I highly recommend Thaddeus Richardson with Punchlist New Mexico: tile work, kitchen cabinet install, weather damage repair…whatever your house needs. Licensed & bonded. Email: punchlistnm@gmail.com or call 505-980-1027.

Andrea Broyles is Currently Reading

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Feels Like a Pancake Kind of a Day

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Feels like a pancake kind of a day.

Cool Pick of the Week:

  • Inauguration Day Labyrinth Walk: The Labyrinth Resource Group of Santa Fe welcomes the community to walk the labyrinth and contemplate their role in the coming year. This is not a political or protest event. Fri. Jan. 10. Museum of International Folk Art

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  • EFT Tapping Group for Difficult Emotions directed by Andi Sutherland, Wed. Jan. 18, 6:30pm at the Sage Inn $15
  • Please join us for the Santa Fe Women to Women Monthly Lunch – a way to meet women in Santa Fe, share stories, exchange ideas and make new friends. Wed. Jan. 25 at noon at Cowgirl. RSVP to jodyville@yahoo.com. $25 cash at the door. Our guest speaker this month will be Jamie Douglass talking about the Santa Fe Neighbors Village.
  • I’ve had a couple of requests again lately from people who want to start a writing group. If you’re interested, email me at jodyville@yahoo.com.
  • 2nd Annual Winter Fabric & Pottery Sale by Janet Lever-Wood & Marguerite Wilson, Sat. Jan. 28 – Sun. Jan. 29 10 – 5. 9 Fido Lane, or call 505-670-8219 for an appointment
  • If you’re looking for someone to do Home Remodeling Projects big or small, I highly recommend Thaddeus Richardson with Punchlist New Mexico: tile work, kitchen cabinet install, weather damage repair…whatever your house needs. Licensed & bonded. Email: punchlistnm@gmail.com or call 505-980-1027.

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Baby it’s cold outside

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Cool Pick of the Week:

  • Wolf Staged Reading: The New Mexico Film Foundation presents a staged reading of the first act of “WOLF”, a new feature film screenplay by Jocelyn Jansons, winner of the George RR Martin Screenwriter Grant.  The event will take place as part of the Foundation’s George RR Martin Grant Ceremony to celebrate this year’s winner, Michael Chase Walker, January 10, 20176 PM Jean Cocteau Cinema, 18 Montezuma Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501, 310-699-9951
  • THE ZIA SINGERS “The Melody in the Meter: Poetry in Song” Winter Concert – Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel, 50 Mount Carmel Road, Santa Fe,
    Jan. 14 & 15 at 3pm. Tickets $20, Students Free

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  • Please join us for the Santa Fe Women to Women Monthly Lunch – a way to meet women in Santa Fe, share stories, exchange ideas and make new friends. Wed. Jan. 25 at noon at Cowgirl. RSVP to jodyville@yahoo.com. $25 cash at the door. Our guest speaker this month will be Jamie Douglass talking about the Santa Fe Neighbors Village.
  • If you’re looking for someone to do Home Remodeling Projects big or small, I highly recommend Thaddeus Richardson with Punchlist New Mexico: tile work, kitchen cabinet install, weather damage repair…whatever your house needs. Licensed & bonded. Email: punchlistnm@gmail.com or call 505-980-1027.

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Hand Painted Pet Cards

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Check out the beautiful hand painted pet cards my daughter is making!

Send her a photo of your pet & she will do a small painting
& make it into a set of 10 cards!

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You get 10 cards w/ envelopes (you choose the color background) PLUS the original artwork! Cost: $55 plus shipping. Email me to place your order:  jodyville@yahoo.com

Cool Pick of the Week: 

  • On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 BlackShirtReads will bring “Flying Monkey” Ecologist and award-winning screenwriter Laura K. Marsh, Ph.D. to Santa Fe.  The one night only event includes a live-performance, staged-script reading of Across the Amazons, and a Q&A. Jean Cocteau Cinema. Tickets: $8 general admission, $7 seniors and $5 students.

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  • Luncheon with Santa Fe Women to Women. Please join us Wednesday, Oct. 19 at noon at Cowgirl Restaurant. $25 at the door. Guest Speaker: Melissa Gzaskow, a Registered Nurse & Certified Thermologist  at 360 Medicine, will be here to talk about Thermography – Did you know that a mammogram with multiple views can deliver up to 1000 times the radiation of a chest x-ray to sensitive breast tissue? Digital Thermography(DITI) can detect inflammation, infection, hormone imbalance and blood vessel abnormalities without any radiation exposure, or compression of breast tissue. RSVPto jodyville@yahoo.com

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