I used to love (and be good at) gardening. After too many years of fighting our snails, grasshoppers, javelinas, and earwigs, I finally faced some serious truths and personal limitations. Raising my own food here in northern Arizona is competing with too many other personal interests AND I’m not that great at it. Add it [...]

Well, it stinks that my blog has been off line most of the day due to a server issue. Too bad I earlier spent lots of time visiting other great blogs and leaving comments with links back here, which will never be accessed by potential visitors due to loonnnnngggg load times and outright “file not [...]

Locally grown+homemade=Yummy Perfection. This masterpiece started at Whipstone Farm in Paulden. Corey and Shanti Rade bring us our share of their fresh-picked produce every Tuesday. (More about their CSA can be found here.) Shanti emails a list of what’s coming in each week’s delivery in advance. She also includes a few recipe hints, making meal [...]

If it’s Tuesday in May or June, it means we’re in our salad days. Thanks to Corey and Shanti of Whipstone Farms in Paulden, AZ, all I had to do was run downtown yesterday afternoon and pick up this week’s haul. After a quick rinse and some slicing and dicing, dinner is served. Tossed with [...]

Debra Dorrell, owner of “A Good Yarn” in Prescott wants help spreading this news: A Good Yarn, located in The Old Firehouse Plaza at 220 W Goodwin in Prescott, is proud to announce a book signing with Debbie Macomber on Saturday June 7th, at 1:00 P.M. The bestselling author of A Good Yarn, The Shop [...]

Would you join me in taking a moment out to focus on a very somber subject which is being observed this week in our community? The Homicide Victim Remembrance Display, created in 2008, is a collaborative effort of the Yavapai County (Arizona) Attorney’s Office Victim Services Division and Arizona Department of Corrections Restorative Justice Program. [...]

Whether you are just passing through or are a resident, looking for good food in Prescott is always an enjoyable past time. Over on AboutPrescottArizona.com there are some new reviews. The reviews will be expanded in the coming months, and if you are a local, I’d love to hear from you if you have personal [...]

We’re one month into this new year. How are you feeling about your New Year’s Resolutions? If you’re on track, good for you! OTOH, if you have slipped up a tad, how about making a commitment to a new volunteer project? Easy to find, every community has numerous options, AND you will instantly feel good [...]

Or, do you even care? When you think “blog community,” you probably picture like-minded people, or those bound by common interest, but not living, breathing people who live where you live. (Speaking of that, see photograph of Lynx Lake near where I live in Prescott, Arizona, at right.) Does it matter to you if people [...]

Coffeehouses abound in Prescott and I love checking them out when they first open. I have some favorites (and you can read more about those over at www.AboutPrescottArizona.com), but when I hear of a new one, I’m there. Daughter-in-law Skyla actually spotted this new one when she was in town last week, just a few [...]