Life In The Desert

Practically Perfect Pantry Makeover

December 5, 2011

Just over a month ago I had a mini crisis in my kitchen.  Or–more accurately–in my pantry.  I came home one afternoon after grocery shopping and unloaded all of our purchases onto the counter.  I separated the cold items from the dry items, putting away meats and dairy and produce first.  And then I turned [...]

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in my next house

November 7, 2011

When we built and subsequently moved into this house just over six years ago I remember telling more than one person that the only way I’d ever move out of this place was if they dragged my stiff, lifeless body from it.  Drastic, much?  Who, me?  Now, here I am compiling a wish list of [...]

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Seldom Snowfall

February 27, 2011

Once each year, something magical takes place here in the desert. Whereas dust and cacti typically cover our barren desert valley, a seldom snowfall occasionally arrives, blanketing the landscape in shimmering ice. It gives leafless limbs a glittery coat. It drapes desert fauna in icy splendor. It {temporarily} softens the most prickly of limbs.  The [...]

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The Finer Things

January 24, 2011

I’m a lover of all things wine.  I might have mentioned it, a time or two. I grew up in Paso Robles, a little gem on California’s central coast–wine country, although back then it wasn’t half the wine destination it is now.  Still, I think those vines tangled themselves up in my subconscious, rooting a [...]

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Now Arriving: Titanic In Tucson

October 28, 2010

Thirteen years ago I had a date with my bitty newborn Kennedy and my Gram.  There was a big new James Cameron movie out and I was dying to see it.  So I sat in a dark theater on a weekday afternoon and breastfed my baby until she fell asleep.  And then I relaxed and [...]

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10 Reasons To Be Thankful You Don’t Live in Arizona

September 3, 2010

You know how Labor Day weekend is supposed to signify the end of summer?  The close of white-wearing-season?    The last picnic of the year? In Tucson?  Not so much. Forecasters are predicting near-record highs for the next couple of days.  Which would be awesome if we lived in Alaska, or some equally frozen tundra of [...]

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Finally. She’s Here.

September 1, 2010

There is something about the first of every month, don’t you think?  Or am I alone in that I get a touch giddy when I get to flip the calendar page?  Especially when I’m flipping aforementioned calendar to the month of September. September has long been a favorite of mine.  Though no month could ever [...]

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