Category: Features

Gift Shop Artist of the Month: Carolyn Meador

Study the picture, and soon you will sense the playful animation.

Patricia Fremont Smith Our featured artist for May is Carolyn Meador. This nearly new resident of SaddleBrooke joined the gift shop team in December 2020, after moving here in August 2020 from Orange County, Calif. “I fell in love with the desert,” she says, adding “I love the charm of the homes in SaddleBrooke and found…

Cowboy from Laredo, Texas

Stuart Watkins Just a cowboy looking for work not a job this old boy can’t do buck ‘em, train ‘em, do it right, too teach em how to cut a herd Look too long in the tooth for our kinda spread Well, if it’s a chuckwagon cook you need in the day I’ve been known…

Memorial Day

Ross Dunfee The killing was over. The four-year long Civil War officially ended at Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865. There was a large division between the northern states (largely industrial) and the southern states (largely agrarian) over slavery, states’ rights, and westward expansion. The election of Lincoln was the last straw, and by one month…

SaddleBrooke Artist Jay Clary

The picture of Jay standing in front of his art suggests he has been doing this for many years.

Stuart Watkins One look at Jay’s art and I had to share his story with other SaddleBrooke residents, artists, and those who are just retired but have been there, done that, and might want to do it again. Jay and his wife, Diane, moved here five years ago from Colorado and still have a home…

Goodbye to Linda Brush

Linda Brush

Claudia Hermansen Linda Brush has been a resident in SaddleBrooke for over 25 years, mostly as a snowbird. She was active in the Monday morning Sew Busy Cut Ups, the Thursday morning Machine Embroidery Club, and the Friday morning Quilters Club. She helped start the Serger Club, as part of the Sew Busy Cut Ups, and…

Words of Wisdom from Centenarians

Suzanne Marlatt Stewart One of my favorite phrases is “There are many paths to the mountaintop.” For many of us, we are inching our way there through our 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Surprisingly, to me, one in 26 baby boomers is expected to live to be 100. Co-authors Steve Franklin, Ph.D. and Lynn Peters…

In Passing

Gordon Bailey “Buzz” Hackett, Jr.

Gordon Bailey “Buzz” Hackett, Jr. Gordon Bailey “Buzz” Hackett, Jr. passed peacefully of natural causes to be with the Lord in the comfort of his home, with his wife of 10 years, Mary-Lou, by his side on April 21, 2021. Buzz was born in Newport, R.I., to Gordon Bailey Hackett, Sr. and Rose Dolores Hackett…