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SAGUARO HARVEST MEMORIES

Moxie Cosmos Says…

It’s 104 degrees F in Tucson today — but, as they say, “it’s a dry heat.”

We took a visitor from Cuiliacan, Mexico, to the Arizona Desert Museum last Saturday night, one of the summer evening openings this institution has to allow human beings to view their non-human neighbors who come out at dusk.

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Bra or Antlers?

What are your memories of diasters, and what to you try to

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Mother's Last Home - Photos

After Remodel for Mom

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS…

THIS IS MY MOTHER’S LAST HOME – OUR HOME

Floor Plan Before CAPS Remodel

Here is how we remodeled a 1938 house to provide a second master suite, and below it are photos of the structural changes discussed in my recent posts about how we remodeled a house to accommodate an 80-year-old with

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Part III My 80-year-old Stay-at-Home Mom

Mom with Bob and Me 1947

Mom with Bob and Me 1947

Mother and Dad were in the habit of sitting outside their house on pleasant evenings. This began at their suburban home in St. Louis, where they had a flagstone patio and could expect neighbors from the two other houses on the block to join them, at least on weekends.

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We learn how to breathe.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS…

“Look, Ma, no splash” got some comments, including one from a Certified Nurse Assistant.  Not  many people in health care know about Aqua Therapy.  This morning I asked my instructor why that is, and she said it wasn’t until the Aquatic Therapy & Rehabilitation Institute got started about four years ago that the

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There’s lace under the leather.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

A recent NPR feature reporting the failed attempts of the tourist bureau in Nottingham, England, to piggyback on the movie Robin Hood makes me very sad – and makes me laugh.  Nobody really knows who Robin Hood was, and hardly anyone remembers the real Nottingham.

The city is spread over two

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“No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.”

MOXIECOSMOS SAYS . . .

Aldo Leopold has been on my mind, and although it is two months early for this particular quote attributed to him, it fits the way we observed Easter weekend, April 2-5.

“In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all

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