On Monday, we celebrated President's Day. It caused me to reflect upon some of the characters we've elected to lead us over the years. One character in particular was really over-the-top. An enthusiastic fist-fighter, he…
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World-class violinist Joshua Bell played at Centennial Hall just a few blocks down the street in Tucson last weekend. Bell doesn't just play a mean fiddle. He is also a savvy marketer. His record company…
Tucson is surrounded by four mountain ranges, one in each direction. The city is sandwiched between the two halves of beautiful Saguaro National Park. Coronado National Forest lies to the north of town. So does…
At a New Year's Eve gathering in Phoenix, a twenty-something kid to whom I had just been introduced looked me over and said, "Man, it must have been cool to have been alive in the…
It appears that the only way to get away from bad Christmas music is to take refuge in an ice fishing house in the middle of Lake Mille Lacs with a pair of ear plugs…
Last week, as the big "L" on the weather map from last week's record low pressure system hovered over the house, I decided it was time to fire up the wood stove. Heating with wood…
Do lawn signs help win elections? I sure hope not, but I fear they must, otherwise politicians wouldn't waste money littering area roadsides with them. A few years back, I drove the freeway across South…
It was a warm and wonderful summer that ended last week with the Labor Day holiday. I usually avoid summertime extravaganzas big enough to require one to park on grass and get on a bus,…