Patricia Sanders
March 16, 2021
Op-Ed/Letters
I read once about a psychologist who went to study people in Siberia, to find out how Siberians think. One question went like this: “In the Far North, where there is snow, all bears are white. Novaya Zembla (the name of a town) is in the Far North, and there …
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Patricia Sanders
November 22, 2020
Living, Op-Ed/Letters
When people hear that I’ve been traveling for the past four years, they’ll usually ask me two questions. First: What’s your favorite country? I never know how to answer that one. I love them all. The second question tends to be: Weren’t you afraid? That’s easier to answer: Yes. Of …
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Patricia Sanders
October 5, 2020
Business
Douglas Miles Jr. is a professional skateboarder, owner of the film production company Indellica, and a partner and team rider of Apache Skateboards. He has produced video and photo content for Apache Skateboards and now owns and operates Indellica to help other businesses with film production and branding. He has …
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Patricia Sanders
August 16, 2020
Arts & Entertainment, Culture, The Visitors View
In south-central Utah, due east of Moab and north of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, lives one of the most remarkable creatures on Earth. From the edge of an alpine lake, a forest of quaking aspen climbs the steep angle of a hillside. A portion of this high-altitude forest – …
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Patricia Sanders
July 27, 2020
Health&Spirit, Op-Ed/Letters
I’m in southern New Hampshire, visiting my brother at his new house – he’s just retired from the Army – and helping him put in a new vegetable garden. It’s a beautiful time to be in New Hampshire: temps are in the mid 70s to low 80s, and it rains …
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Patricia Sanders
July 22, 2020
Living, Outdoors
Flowering plants don’t just look pretty – they can also do some serious garden work. Beautiful, aromatic blossoms attract beneficial insects – such as pollinators – to the garden. And in vegetable gardens, you can enlist flowering plants to help with pest control, either attracting predators that keep populations of …
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Patricia Sanders
June 14, 2020
Government, History
George W. P. Hunt got his start in life when he came to Globe in 1881 – first waiting tables in James Pascoe’s restaurant, then working as a mucker in the Old Dominion Mine. By 1892 he’d won a seat representing Gila County in the territorial legislature. In 1900, taking …
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Patricia Sanders
April 13, 2020
Living
For beating stress and calming anxiety, two of the best things you can do are to, one, stay active – especially if you choose an activity that will be meaningful beyond your day-to-day life. And, two, get outdoors. The fresh air and natural beauty can heal your soul and help …
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Patricia Sanders
January 17, 2020
Living
Major Dan Moss of the U.S. Air Force says he would never compare himself to Santa Claus. But it’s hard not to. After all, he’s the Mission Commander for Operation Christmas Drop, which airdrops bundles of humanitarian supplies to impoverished islanders across the Pacific Ocean, every year at Christmastime. The …
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Patricia Sanders
December 20, 2019
Arts & Entertainment, Culture
Review of Memoir of a 2G: Story of Secrecy and Resilience by Patricia C. Bischof Patricia Bischof is an artist and teacher in Tucson. She teaches art at Marana Middle School, creates mixed-media and found-object artworks, and collects vintage women’s accessories. She’s also a “2G”: the daughter of two Holocaust …
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