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MESA ARIZONA NEEDS A SHOWER

October 10, 2022 by

Mesa Arizona is not fly-over country, but it might be drive-through country. It’s the sort of place between where you are and where you want to go. Oddly enough, not everyone shares this back-water idea. Mesa Arizona is a backwater? Not with the Salt River flowing nearby.

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GREEN CORNER OF MIDDLE EASTERN MESA

January 19, 2018 by

    “Green Corner is off Southern and Alma School. I’ve been there,” I said, flooring the rental car through the round-about on Bass Pro Drive.   “So you know the way? I should stop looking at the GPS?” she said. “Fast corner.”   I’d been there five months ago with DD. Alma School was […]

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APACHE TEARS HAPPY ENDING

January 17, 2018 by

    “Let’s meet one of my facebook friends,” I said one day during a Mesa Arizona visit.   “You met someone on facebook and you want to meet them?” she asked. “You never want to meet anyone.”   “Yes, I do. We’ll go prospecting. He knows where to find Apache tears,” I said.   […]

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MESA ARIZONA, CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE

January 15, 2018 by

Where are you right now? Do you wish you were somewhere else? Instead of working on the wish list of where you’d rather be, take a good look around. You may be in the center of the universe, like Mesa Arizona.

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GET A JUMP START ON GLOBAL WARMING IN THE ARIZONA DESERT

June 12, 2017 by

The Arizona desert feels like the future of global warming. I’m not complaining about one hundred ten degree days, and neither is the cactus. But how much hotter would it get if global warming trends continue? Check the temps next week. The weather news calls for potential records. My home turf in Oregon gets record […]

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CAN OREGON SPORTS LEARN FROM ARIZONA

April 9, 2014 by

It’s About More Than Sun Screen. Oregon sports fans share one thing in common. We look for ways to relate sports to life. We like to make it personal no matter where we are. But where do you find Oregon sports in Mesa, Arizona? I was lost until I pulled into the Chicago Cubs spring training […]

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