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Last week, a neighbor from back home and a fellow snowbird showed me an adventure I have never before experienced. I was invited to go four-wheelin’ on the Arizona desert. Continue Reading

Snowbird luck: I flew back from Arizona to Minnesota for an important meeting only to get snowed in and miss the meeting which suddenly didn’t seem important at all! Continue Reading

The Super Bowl rendered the usually crowded freeways of Phoenix, AZ as quiet as I-29 during a blizzard. Continue Reading

As he approached his seventieth year, the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright endured a bout of pneumonia during a Wisconsin winter. Continue Reading

After weeks of unseasonable cold in the Southwest, the sun warmed the desert floor into the 70s again last week. Continue Reading

Last week, I flew into Austin, Texas, for a funeral and innocently rented a car. Nobody warned me that as a Minnesotan, I was unequipped to drive in Texas. Continue Reading

On Christmas Day, several new movies hit the big screen. The most notable this year was the latest version of “Les Miserables,” which opened to critical acclaim. Continue Reading

My only Christmas gift purchases this year were at the Toys-R-Us store in Phoenix, where I picked up some toys for kids I will never meet. Continue Reading

To the east of the Phoenix metropolitan area, a rugged national forest starts within ear shot of the major streets of Apache Junction. Within a ten-minute drive, one’s chief concern can change from crime to cougars. Continue Reading