13.1

Juliann and I ran the Women’s Half Marathon together this morning. The course was hilly by Arizona standards, but also quite lovely. We started in south Scottsdale, wound around the Papago Mountains, over the Mill Avenue Bridge and around Tempe Town Lake to...

Home + Hope

This little house I have in Tempe feels like home. It didn’t for many years. Although I’ve been here for nearly 8, it’s only been in the last few that I put love into where I was living. It was always clean. I always had dinner parties and an...

Nachooooooooo!

This weekend was the Arizona Taco Festival. Even if it had just offered tacos, I’d have been there. But, Dios mio, then I heard about the entertainment — Lucha libre! I knew nothing of Lucha before seeing Nacho Libre. And while it definitely didn’t...

Refill

Good news — as of this morning at 7:01 am, Tempe Town Lake is being refilled. Remember when one of the bladders burst earlier this summer? After watching the workers during countless runs around the lake over the last few months, they filled the final bladder...