Opinion

I open the laptop and I check my email first. There’s not much there, besides the endless, ever-greater spam. So, next, as is my habit, I peruse the daily news. Today’s scandal du jour, it seems, is that some Southern governor was pictured in a yearbook photo, thirty years ago, in blackface, as a Hottentot […]

Youth took wing a long time ago, but life gave me a long interval with many ways to learn and do things and find ways to grow. I wasn’t prepared for what came next. It seemed to happen with no warning, no time to try to compensate for what was changing in me. Suddenly there […]

Call to Action South 32 owns a 26-acre parcel on the Harshaw Road for which they are applying to the town for a use permit. The lot is the one where the cattle graze on the north side of Harshaw. It is NOT Charlie Montoy’s lot that is currently being used for parking. A joint […]

Patagonia made national headlines this past month after a YouTube video of an incident between Town Marshall Joseph Patterson and resident Hilde Kate Lysiak went viral. First covered by the Nogales International on Feb. 21, the story received national coverage from the Washington Post on Feb. 22, 2019 and has sparked a conversation about social […]

Not Happy With Elective Program In response to the article titled “Patagonia Schools Tap into Community Elective Programs.” Although the school currently offers more elective choices, the electives program is far from improved. Unfortunately, the hours spent in electives has been drastically decreased from approximately 12 hours per week down to four hours per week […]

“I’m paying attention to you. I am doing the best I can. I want to take care of you. I’m here for you.” For those of us who have been in any kind of talk therapy, it is likely that we have worked with the voice of our inner child. Our inner child is usually […]

When I first started at the Art Center I didn’t have a whole lot of experience with art, teaching kids, grants, art supplies or working by myself in an office. Up until that point I had worked at dude ranches, cooking in restaurants and being surly in stores. Still they hired me, some of the […]

“I wish I could live until everyone is the same color,” I heard someone say last week. “A lovely sentiment,” I thought. “Don’t hold your breath.” Interbreeding may eventually homogenize the species, but that will not mean flawless harmony. Some of the most grueling rancor on earth occurs within families. Or am I being negative […]

As I have grown older and have had more time to think, I have been reflecting on these wonderful, strong young women of today. They are striking out in all directions, from politics to work discrimination, to jobs, to sexual identity. It has been a long time coming, and long overdue. If you were to […]

I can’t know why I found God, but I do remember when. I had been broken-hearted in a way that was beyond my capacity to understand, and the cyclone of pain turned everything that I knew as my life to dust. This death of my life was the beginning of my relationship with God, and […]