thoughts, facts* and ideas about arizona life from someone too old to leave now

(*MAY NOT BE ACTUAL FACTS)

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When you have some spare time, here are the latest NativeSun posts…

Old Dad/New Dad

I have a daughter who started law school, and a daughter who started preschool. In the same week. Near as I can tell, this is the only meaningful thing I have in common with Billy Joel, who at age 69 has a 31-year-old daughter, along with two girls under age four. Did...

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Prescott, D.C.

What if Columbus had sailed the other way in 1492, and landed in San Diego? These are the kinds of thoughts that entertain me late at night. We might have occupied the country from west to east, instead of the other way. The Shot Heard 'Round the World could have been...

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Home Away

Something’s seriously wrong in the world. Hard to explain. Nuclear destabilization? Divisive politics? A twenty-year Arizona drought? All interesting, maybe even important. But what really has the world off its axis is that, as of today, the Boston Red Sox are 7 ½...

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