Hazel Staloff Members of the Singles Club ushered in their fall social season with a dine-around at Mr. An’s. The hostess, our indefatigable social coordinator, Sheelagh Simpson, joined us a mere five days after surgery. Everyone enjoyed watching the dancing flames as our food was being prepared and the delicious end result. However, having become accustomed…
Terry Hurley Janet Jarzembinski has been playing softball since she was a young girl in Wisconsin, but that didn’t stop her from attending a skills clinic by the SaddleBrooke Senior Softball Association last month. She used the session to try a few new infield positions, to see what they were like. She found the instruction…
Suzanne Marlatt Stewart There is no debate about the fact that we are all aging. Physically, it is very obvious that our bodies are changing. However, our minds and inner self-awareness can keep expanding. Thomas Moore is a bestselling New York Times author, and in his book Ageless Soul, he states, “As you get older, if…
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg The first time I heard “Taps” was in the movie (watched on TCM) From Here to Eternity, in a scene when pugilist Prewitt (played by Montgomery Clift) held his bugle to his lips and played a mournful bugle sound while crying for the loss of his friend, Angelo Maggio (played by Frank Sinatra).…
Christine Reding November aptly named for beavers lodging for winter Heating rocks wrapped in leather skins for warming Daily provisions being secured are decreasingly thinner Existing on berries, butternuts, acorns, walnuts forming A rich surplus of earth’s maple syrup tapped and dripping Hunting with banner stones weighted when thrusting a spear Soapstone nets sink below…
Jan Pede SaddleBrooke is definitely a community of animal lovers. You see it everywhere, from your neighbors out walking their pups daily, to the support the community gives to local shelters and rescue groups. Since 2005, a small group of animal lovers (Wags & Walkers) has been going to Pima Animal Care Center (PACC) every…