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As everyone’s least favorite year, 2020, turns into ’21, many are hopeful, and others are cautiously optimistic. Still others are downright pessimistic, worried about the economy and its …
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By Richard Coltharp
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12/31/20
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Nothing is highlighted more from 2020 than the need to make connections and keep the connections we already built going into 2021. Then, we need to act on them.
The coronavirus pandemic has given …
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By Elva K. Österreich
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12/31/20
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There’s an ancient curse.
I’d say where it comes from, but I’m not a racing enthusiast. It goes, “May you live in interesting times.”
2020 was an interesting year. …
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By Jim and Henry Duchene
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12/31/20
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More than 339 species of birds have been spotted in Grant County. In the Gila River Habitat Management Unit (along the Gila River), at least 200 species have been documented. Common black hawks, …
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By Sheila Sowder
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12/31/20
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As the United States braces for another, more extreme, onslaught of the Corona virus, so does Mexico.When I drove down to Palomas on a Saturday in Mid-November, I was amazed by the absence of traffic …
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By Marjorie Lilly
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12/3/20
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My father died this year. It was before we heard those strange words – coronavirus, social distancing, community spread. I am honored and grateful that I was able to travel to Connecticut and …
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By Elva K. Österreich
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12/3/20
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When I visited Estonia with my aunt in 2009 it was under the burden of history. My grandmother had always hated the color red, the color of invaders, murderers – the Germans, the Russians. She …
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By Elva K. Österreich
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11/2/20
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My elderly father refuses to admit it, but his daily walks are taking their toll on him.
And me.
Mainly …
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By Jim and Henry Duchene
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11/2/20
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Halfway up in our southern sky is a half-goat, half fish named Capricornus. This constellation is composed of third and fourth magnitude stars in a crooked “V” lying on its side, with the …
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By Bert Stevens
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11/2/20
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Can you tell me what a full hookup site is? More newbies, I think as I explain one of the basics of RV life. So many people are buying RVs right now that the RV lots are practically empty, and …
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By Sheila Sowder
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11/2/20
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When knights went into battle, they depended not only on their sword, but on their shield as well. While we do not carry shields around with us, there is one about halfway up in the sky above our …
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By Bert Stevens
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9/15/20
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The economy on the border between Columbus and Palomas, Mexico is being reshaped dramatically this summer because of the coronavirus quarantine and the Trump policy of lengthening the wall between …
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By Marjorie Lilly
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9/15/20
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“Tourists Welcome!” shouts the message painted in a script font on the side of the light green building.
Above that are the words, in neat block letters, “Wm. HINDI STORE, …
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By Richard Coltharp
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9/15/20
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In 1775 Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general in the United States.
Letters were taken to a post office, where the postmaster would note the postage in the upper right …
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By Elva K. Österreich
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9/15/20
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Every month I need to have my article to the editor by a certain deadline. And every month, around the beginning of the second week, I realize I have nothing. With deadline getting closer and closer, …
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By Sheila Sowder
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9/5/20
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A baseball season or two ago, I was in my den reading the newspaper, shaking my head at Dear Abby, and enjoying a hot cup of gourmet coffee.I was listening to my TV’s Blues channel. They were …
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By Jim and Henry Duchene
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7/31/20
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I have been taking part in a writer’s group in Silver City (via Zoom) for a few months now. I often am not able to zoom in on the weekly meetings, but I am continually inspired by the prompts …
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By Elva K. Österreich
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7/31/20
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Both wildfire and coronavirus are contagions. Both derive their power from their capacity to propagate. Both seem to have mutated from routine seasonal varieties into something meaner, the product of people changing how they live on the land.
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By Stephen Pyne
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7/31/20
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Drive-in restaurants were not invented with a global pandemic in mind but, turns out, they are suited well to Coronavirus restrictions.
Sonic may be the dominant player in the drive-in restaurant …
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7/31/20
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It took us some time to get used to this new normal, but I hope by now we’ve all come to accept these circumstances and move on. Personally, hiking has given me a sense of normalcy these days …
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By Gabriele Teich
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7/31/20
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