Category: Columns

Some time ago, the University of Arizona asked its Alumni: “What does being a Wildcat for life mean to you?”…

As everyone knows, President Obama is a gifted orator who has voiced several rousing, meaningless, and unmemorable riffs on abstract…

Don’t you just hate it when you get a letter in the mail addressed to you from your bank? Before…

November 30th of 2010 was a good day. In many a way. First of all, from the beginning, the day…

Almost 16 years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. That year, 1995, was a very difficult one for our…

    Today My Beloved and I dismantled the 90 pound dog cage that has sat in the middle of…

Synesthesia (from answers.com)

1. A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.

2. A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.

If you don’t feel compelled to eat everything on your Thanksgiving laden plate, at least LISTEN to your food!

I don’t watch much television since my husband died. When he was alive, we would watch programs and discuss them…

About 5 months ago, I received a letter from the San Diego Water District telling me that a complaint had…

With all the negative vibes flowing through Arizona regarding Latinos I’m reminded that it wasn’t so long ago, around 1994,…

The Board of Supervisors for Los Angeles County has just made the decision that companies that use one-time plastic bags can not longer use them in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Their ruling excludes those cities that have their own city council.

Yesterday the Tampa Tribune had an article in their paper that stated that they had tested more than a dozen reusable bags and found lead in some of them, including Target and Wal-Mart bags. They quickly stated that those two had among the lowest level of lead in them. Swell!

When I was coming up in Tucson, the Old Pueblo, I would go this way and that way, to and fro, trying to keep a step ahead of Old Jim Crow. Somehow I survived that dude’s hateful antics and grew up with a lot of love in my heart and soul. But he doesn’t give up easily and seems to have a toe hold in Arizona and just won’t let go.

A few years ago the idea of a holiday for Martin Luther King came up and Arizonans freaked out …