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My J.C. Penney

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS …

Yesterday I read about the new strategy for the old J.C. Penney stores: Put in brand departments and NO MORE SPECIAL SALES! Everything is to be priced fairly (reflecting true cost) every day.

Today I read that J.C. Penney stock is up. No surprise. One of the cost-cutting effects will be to get

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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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Rock rocks on through web-based service.

Ready to swish and twirl.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

I’ve been trying to recall the name on the poster I saw at London’s Gloucester Road Tube Station in 1985 so I can write a post about how I lost music.

At that station the platform is not underground; it’s open to the sky above, but high stained brick walls hem

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Three Degrees of Separation in Tucson

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

Tucsonans often remark how small it is, even after growing from 250,000 in 1970 to a metro million today.  We also find we have ongoing connections with certain cities — like Denver and Durango in Colorado, Eugene in Oregon, and, traditionally, as a summer getaway, San Diego.  Last year I

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Memory loss is simply maturation.

MOXIECOSMOS SAYS…

Evan Kligman, M.D., who started AgeWell, a membership program of activities related to his practice of Integrative Medicine, is delightfully positive about the process of getting old. A couple of weeks ago, at the first of his summer informal talks with patients (one of the many perks), he explained that when age-related memory

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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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