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Binx Selby
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Making Space for Grace
How new Patagonia Community UMC pastor Katrina Pahulu left her partying days behind.
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Scenes From Our Fourth
Floats, costumes and flying candy at last week’s 4th of July parade in Patagonia, as captured by PRT photojournalists.
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Meet Father Simon
How a ‘La Bamba’-loving Nigerian soccer player became Patagonia’s new priest.
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Wilson’s donuts
Wilson could make or find anything, and solve employee, customer or logistics issues—whatever no one else could figure out. When Dad needed skilled cattle horses for the ranch — and word was that the best and cheapest were to be found in Mexico — Wilson and I got the assignment.
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How to Win an All-Expenses Paid Vacation to Siberia (In the Dead of Winter)
From Stories for My Daughter I was in the Peace Corps in the late 1960s, stationed in a little fishing village near Singapore, a big duty-free port. Soviet ships stopped there, and the rubles their sailors left in the economy could be bought for about three cents, while on the world market they were worth […]
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For Bernice Pomeroy, in Honor of Her 91st Birthday
I had noticed that Bernice has been having altogether far too much fun and decided to investigate. I have been watching her and these are my observations… I. I caught Bernice in the arms of God She blushed Then winked, and smiled, Reaching out to me, and said “How about a threesome?” II. She asked […]
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The Holt Sisters Ride Again
Kim and Cindy Holt set out on the Arizona Trail on horseback, aiming to survive as the Apaches did. Sauteed grasshoppers and edible plants were their diet.
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A Little Soap Box Outrage
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” (Written by Ben Franklin, sometime shortly before February 17, 1775) After the terrible events of September 11, 2001, I met with my regular group of morning coffee buddies. One was United Airlines’ most senior pilot, a man […]