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Santa Fe-based Company could be the model that saves SF’s economy!

Study after study places NM in the worst possible categories: Among the worst three in early childhood education; The highest opiod-related deaths in the nation (per capita); Among the poorest measured states in the nation. I, for one, have grown… Continue Reading →

Is being a writer worse than being an alcoholic?

There wasn’t a lot left – a couple of drops, really. But it called to me and awakened something inside of me. Not really lust, not really gluttony, but more of a memory than anything else. It was a drop… Continue Reading →

Santa Fe, confused though it may be, is home

The gods must have been twiddling their thumbs when they allowed me to emerge into a circumstance that should have killed me, as it has so many of my homeboys. At least those bored gods in the universe armed me… Continue Reading →

An adventure on the Chamisa Forest Trail

The Chamisa Trail in the Santa Fe National Forest calls me.  I can hear it; it wants my feed pounding it, climbing higher and higher.  My goal is to find the Tesuque Creek; according to the sign at the trailhead,… Continue Reading →

Juan Blea to discuss Recovery Psychology August 4th at Page 1 ** PLEASE SHARE

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Author Juan Blea to discuss the ins and out of Recovery and offer FREE CEUs

On Thursday, August 4th, 6:30 PM at Page 1 Bookstore in Albuquerque NM; I will be discussing Recovery and what it really is.  While I will be reading from my book, 49 Tips and Insights for Understanding Addiction, I will… Continue Reading →

No one can say that Juan Blea didn't try

No one can ever say I didn’t attempt to become the educator I sought to be.  As a matter of fact, my epitaph will read: “At least he tried.” Just the other day, I was stalking about a new online… Continue Reading →

3 Requirements for a successful project

Organizations often begin projects without any idea about the project’s success.  But then, when a project fails, they step back and wonder what went wrong.  During my career, I have led both successful and unsuccessful projects (the successful ones are… Continue Reading →

Online Intro to Addiction and Recovery course is NOW AVAILABLE for 6 CEUs!!

I’m taking a page out of the opensource community and am now offering Introduction to Addiction and Recovery fully online!  Simply click on this link, register for the site, confirm your registration, and then enroll yourself in the course!  There… Continue Reading →

Santa Fe is becoming more and more unhealthy as it struggles to figure out who it really is

The very place in which I live and work and breathe is, like many places, a town with wide extremes between its inhabitants.  But even in all it shares with other places, Santa Fe is one of those joints that… Continue Reading →

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