Holidays with SaddleBrooke Wind and Strings

26th Annual SaddleBrooke Health Fair Success

SaddleBrooke TWO Improves Dark Sky Compliance: Community Update

Oracle Schools Foundation – December 2025

SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild – December 2025

In Passing – July 2025

Nancy Lindquist Nancy Ellen Lindquist (née Gunderson), died peacefully at her home in SaddleBrooke, Arizona, on May 27, 2025, surrounded by loved ones. She was 91 years old. Nancy was born in Schroeder, Minn., on Dec. 30, 1933, the sixth and youngest child of Norwegian and Swedish immigrants, Fred and Elen Gunderson. She grew up…

A License to Laugh … Wieder!

Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg It is time to hit the road for vacation time and/or family time. In the Summer of 2025, road trips are expected to outpace previous years. Flexibility, cost-saving, and the road trip experience are the factors that are sending people to travel on asphalt. If you will be out and about…

The Art of Not Caring

Suzanne Marlatt Stewart There’s a common belief that to be happy, you must constantly strive for more wealth, more status, and more possessions. At face value, it seems logical. More equals better, right? However, the truth is, as we age, happiness isn’t about attaining more; it’s about caring less. Less about external validation, societal expectations,…

Dollars & Sense: Managing Drug Costs

Leah Kari, Retired Pharmaceutical Representative and Licensed Insurance Agent Prescription drugs are lifelines that improve our health and quality of life. Often medication costs might prohibit filling a prescription. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) brought welcomed cost relief, effective Jan. 1, 2025. The IRA placed a $2,000 limit on you and your prescription drug coverage’s…

Word of the Month: Cudgel

David Zapatka Friend and fellow bridge player, Susan, writes, “I recently read a new word, ‘cudgel.’ Would you research this word for your column?” Cudgel—cud·gel noun: A short, thick stick used as a weapon. verb: To strike or beat with a cudgel; metaphorically, to forcefully apply or exert something, such as pressure or influence Origin…

When Dragonflies Breathed Fire

Stuart Watkins Stuart Watkins announces the publication of his children’s book, When Dragonflies Breathed Fire. This book has a fantasy story of a queen who attempts to find out why fires pop up in her meadow lands each autumn. She asks the deer and rabbits to seek the source of the fires. An owl tells…