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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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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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Down-sizing in America may be bad news for kids.

Family Photo Album 1920s-1940s

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . . .

McMansions are out, tiny houses are in. So I bet you think I’m going to say that crowding a family of four into a two bathroom, one living-room home is going to damage little psyches. Where will they play with Wii? Will they need larger earphones?

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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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Doctors’ orders can be confusing.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

The man who came out of my doctor’s consulting room was white-haired and unsteady on his feet. I was standing at the reception desk, beside the tabletop fountain, and caught the alarmed expression of the young woman who works there.

“Is all that confusing?” she asked this man. He

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