On Friday night November 1 I went down to ASU to see the reopening of the Imagined Borders map exhibit at the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. It was nice to see many old fri...Read More
Picacho Noun: Spanish word for peak. So the mountain near Tucson named “Picacho Peak” is redundant. Example: Picacho Peak is a famous picacho....Read More
What should the Uyghurs do to survive? How about the Kurds? Throughout history there have been a lot more losers than winners in the group survival lottery.For the last few weeks I’ve been askin...Read More
Pink Stuff Last month when Eva Gold, Nurit’s mother, was in Hospice in a coma at age 92 Lillian and Rebecca came to Phoenix to say goodby. In her memory they decided to make a meal of her tradit...Read More
“I got lucky and saw a Desert Tortoise.” Or said another way: “I have hiked in the desert enough so that statistically I was likely to see a Desert Tortoise.”...Read More
In October we bushwhacked over to the structure we’d seen from the trail in September. We were able to confirmed that it is certainly a human made structure. Who made it and when is still an o...Read More
Papago Noun: Archaic word referring to the Tohono O’odham peoples of Southern Arizona. Try not to use this word. It is a derogatory Pima word meaning “bean eaters” and was picked by ...Read More
WorldSkills I got a Postcrossing postcard from Kazan, Russia that was an advertising card for the 45th Annual WorldSkills Competition. It fascinated me both that I had never heard of it and that it is...Read More