Art, books and a “wait-a-minute” women artists controversy
The Tucson Museum of Art Fair in November, 2019 was jam packed with artisans and crafts people, including some astonishing art works inspired by robots …
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Yellow season in Tucson
It’s almost as if Mother Nature flipped a switch and all the Palo Verde trees across Arizona burst into bloom a few days ago. On …
Ancient Mayan and new Mexican sculptural warriors
In keeping with the idea from my last post that old and the new-imitating-the-old exist in Tucson… Last Saturday I visited the Tucson Museum of …
(Not) historic San Pedro Chapel
I was driving across town a few days ago when I saw–obscured by a creosote forest–what was obviously a church of some kind, as you …
Gunshots? Rocks? What broke the windows?
Sometime after the election last November I noticed that the Pima County Republican headquarters had broken windows. I was on my way to the Trek …
Feeding one person at a Little Free Pantry
I’d never heard of Little Free Pantry until this morning when I read an article in a local online newspaper about a new LFP at …
Macrame and custom socks at St. Phillip’s weekend market
On weekends St. Phillip’s Plaza at River and Campbell holds a market that is sorta like a crafts fair. Lots of jewelry makers and –you …
Yellow VW Bug loves succulents
Well, if you have an old rusted out VW Bug lying around somewhere, you, too, can transform it into a gigantic yellow planter for succulents …
A WWI Vet sculpts Garden of Gethsemane in Tucson
As he lay gravely wounded in a trench in France during World War I, Felix Lucero, a native of Trinidad, CO had a vision of …
Getting the Covid 19 vaccine in Tucson: a true story
Like millions of other people in a high risk category, I was eager to get the Covid 19 vaccine after 11 months of isolation in …