When I was a kid in the 1950s, my dad expressed disdain for people so poor they’d build on riverbanks prone to flooding (“The stages of disaster,” HCN, 4/28/14). High ground was the motto for his dream home, perched on the stable bluffs of the Minnesota River. In 1978, I arrived in Tucson, Arizona, a […]
Deb Dedon
Posted inMay 28, 2012: The Gila Bend Photon Club
Libro-tempest in a teacup
I live in sight of Tucson Unified School District’s ground zero, and this controversy is a storm in a teacup (HCN, 4/16/12, “The book smugglers”). Tucson is a multi-ethnic community, but this controversy seems to have only two cultural dimensions, Latinos and everybody else, with “everybody else” wearing the bad, black cowboy hat these days. […]
Posted inMarch 19, 2012: Water Warrior
Falling to pieces
I’ve lived in Tucson for more than 30 years and I have mourned the steady erosion of social cohesion, the death of the village that raises the child (HCN, 2/20/12, “Extreme Arizona”). Whether due to a transient population only invested in selfish seasonal pleasure, or to rugged land and a challenging climate, to dry air […]