In search of ponies: Mother hen not needed
By Sharna Johnson: Freedom New Mexico For the record, I wasn’t serious when I said I was contemplating chicken ownership. Yet somehow, a couple months later, I am the proud owner of two hens....
View ArticleFund established for child with leukemia
CNJ staff A fund has been established to help with medical costs for 9-year-old Lynzie Barton of Clovis, who is diagnosed with leukemia, according to her mother Rebecca Barton. Donations can be made...
View ArticleDirty Laundry: Taking care of fathers complicates family roles
Aisha Sultan Amy Goyer left her home in Washington two years ago to care for her aging parents in Phoenix. Her mother had suffered a stroke two decades earlier, and her father was beginning to show...
View ArticleTiger cub donated to Clovis zoo
CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks Zoo Curator Mark Yannotti feeds Sooner, a 12-week-old tiger, who was donated to the Hillcrest Park Zoo from an Oklahoma exotic animal facility. Sharna Johnson When he...
View ArticleMilitary mama: Being mother well worth sleep lost
I’ve reached the peak of my twenties, in that I’m in my final year of being able to claim the decade. Though, in all likelihood, I will be celebrating my twenty-ninth birthday over and over again. Age...
View ArticleFood at the speed of life: Recipe refines red enchiladas
Dad prefers green chile over red. However, Mom has long made red enchiladas with her mother’s recipe. Dad made a few changes to the recipe to suit his tastes. Also, my family uses vegetable oil...
View ArticleCowboys knew how to have fun at work
My mother was a teenager during the 1930s. That decade was one of the busiest for the cattle and sheep raisers in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico. In 1885, the railroad company built a spur...
View ArticleMom was wiser than she realized
My mother died one year ago tomorrow. My niece Carol — her primary caregiver and one of several grandchildren and great-grandchildren that my parents raised — and I went through mother’s modest...
View ArticleBusiness digest — Dec. 13
Mother, daughter honored for book A Clovis mother-daughter team was recently honored with the national Benjamin Franklin Award for children’s books. Liz and Stephanie Eisenbraun’s book design project,...
View ArticleBrothers move mother to hometown cemetery
Photo provided by Steve Patton Brothers Steve Patton, left, and Gordon Patton make preparations to bury their mother, Bill Ward Patton, on Saturday at Hope Cemetery. The brothers moved their mother,...
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