Category: January 2026

Institute for Learning in Retirement – January 2026

Meet the New Instructor Joan Elder Irina Zlatogorova was born in the Siberian region of Russia. She immigrated to the Chicago area of the United States with her husband in 1992. After two decades raising her children, Irina earned an MBA from Northern Illinois University. In 2018 she completed a Ph.D. in business psychology and…

Deadline Reminder and How to Submit Articles

The deadline for the February edition is Monday, Jan. 26, by noon. Please send your submissions on time, and early if possible! You can email your submissions to editorial@robson.com or use our website link: robsonpublishing.com/editorial. For article and photo guidelines or if you have any questions, please call 480-895-4216.

Photography with an Artist’s Eye

Daniel Lacroix I am a semi-professional photographer and have been practicing photography seriously since 2006. My passion is wildlife and nature landscapes, but I have more recently developed my creativity by focusing more on street photography and mundane subjects. For me, all I see is art. All around me is beauty, even in places that…

Endocrine Disorder Management and New Surgical Techniques

Join us Monday, Jan. 8, at DesertView Performing Arts Center for the SaddleBrooke Health Night Out presentation “Endocrine Disorder Management and New Surgical Techniques.” Doors open at 6:45 p.m., and the presentation begins at 7 p.m. This is a unique opportunity to hear Dr. Barbra Miller of Banner—University Medical Center Tucson speak about common endocrine…

Wiseye’s Desert “Go Bag” Guide: Be Ready, Stay Safe

Greetings, Desert Dwellers! As your vigilant SaddleBrooke Firewise Wiseye, I keep my sharp eyes on your safety. Living in our beautiful desert means enjoying wide skies, warm sun, and unique wildlife, but it also means facing risks that can arrive suddenly. Wildfires, in particular, can move fast and leave little time to think. One of…

An Unexpected Gardening Success

Robert Kumza When I first started gardening in Arizona five years ago, I started with 40 years of previous gardening experiences and prejudices gained from my Pennsylvania gardens. These prejudices led me to believe that gardening was a once-a-year event that started in spring and ended when fall weather hit and all my plants had…

SaddleBrooke Fruit Pickers Prepare for Another Season

Corey Loyd In past years during the late winter and early spring, you may have seen a caravan of cars and carts winding through SaddleBrooke on Saturday afternoons; happy people stopping throughout SaddleBrooke to unload empty boxes at driveways, scurry into backyards, and return to their vehicles with full boxes of fruit. They are the…