Why I Am (Trying to be) Happy About The Drought Feels like June 87th out there or is it the June 93rd? I know it is hard to keep track. What I do know if that it is HOT and DRY. Very DRY. To my recollection this is the driest so-called summer rainy season in […]
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Letter to the Editor
If it ain’t broke… Maybe pandemic confinement, heat and breaking teeth are making me grumpy, but I have two dissatisfactions with the recent Patagonia street resurfacing project. My first dissatisfaction is that we, the residents, were told this is what was going to be done to our streets, rather than being asked if this change […]
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Let’s Turn Our Loss Into a Win
The courtroom in Sonoita has sat empty since the Court was shut in January 2019. Photo by Marion Vendituoli It has been over a year and a half since the gavel fell for the last time at Eastern Santa Cruz County Justice Court in Sonoita. The building is now a storage facility for excess county […]
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The Reckoning
George Floyd’s murder brought to the surface both the inhumanity of racial violence and how the false ideology of race has shaped the world we live. Floyd’s death became a tipping point in my life, forcing me to reckon with the belief that raising my children in Patagonia is the best thing for them. Even […]
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Don’t Go Out There!
This has gone on way longer than I’m sure any of us could have imagined. We are restless, irritated and put out by everything associated with the virus. Have you seen the dogs in this town? My dogs are starting to get buff from all the walks around the block. I’ve baked all the bread, […]
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Don’t Let Grant Money Silence Your Voice
As the communications consultant for nonprofit Patagonia Area Resource Alliance, I understand the importance grant money has during incredibly unprecedented times. Right now, grant money is competitive and hard to find, and everyone – from schools to local businesses – needs help to protect their family, friends, and community from the long-term fallout of the […]
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Life Among the Humans: Don’t Be So Sure!
We Humans have different ways of knowing things: from experience, for instance, or by intuition (hunches / gut feelings.) And then, more cumbersomely, there’s science – systematic observation and measurement. These different modes of inquiry deliver “facts” of different sorts. To learn if God exists and if He / She believes in us, you’d need […]
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100 Days of COVID-19
As 2020 unrolls, the devastation wrought by an imperceptible lethal organism creeps around everywhere. Our way of life, thinking, news intake and conversations are being transformed by newly important words and ideas. As if we are all amateur epidemiologists we talk about outbreaks, hotspots, incubation periods, asymptomatic transmission, clinical trials, test protocols, and super-spreaders. Chalk […]
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Life Among the Humans: Here, Fauci! Roll Over! Play Dead!
I think I’ll name my next dog Fauci. I simply love the sound of it and do respect the man whose name it is. He seems to have integrity and is, therefore, believable, when so many are not. I’m quite surprised that Fauci’s still around. He’s done what one must never do – he’s contradicted […]
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Letters to the Editor
Praise for the PRT You are to be commended for your local coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. No screaming headlines, no exaggerated claims, just the facts as you, your staff, and your contributors know them. I was particularly drawn to your front-page story, “The new normal for health-care workers.” RN Jennie La Dage’s story really […]