March 2020

Letter to My Future Self

Brian Curry Back in 2014, I wrote a piece called “Letter to Myself at 16” for the Sun Lakes Splash. I began to get a lot of comments about it from my friends and neighbors. It was basically a letter from my current age at the time (59) to my much younger self. The catalyst…

So Many Books, So Little Time

Reviewer Violetta Armour is a new resident of Sun Lakes from Ahwatukee where she owned the bookstore, Pages. She is the author of four novels, including award-winning I’ll Always Be with You, a book club favorite. Her books are available at the Robson, Chandler, and Phoenix libraries and on Amazon.

Violetta Armour News of the World, by Paulette Jiles. Genre: Historical Fiction. In this era of receiving news the instant it happens, often as it is happening, it’s hard to imagine how world news was received in small, isolated towns in the post-Civil War days. Author Paulette Jiles takes us to a time and place in our…

Relishing Pickleball: 2019 Pickleball Rocks Players-of-the-Year

Ben Johns, 2019 Player-of-the-Year

David Zapatka Last month, we announced the 2019 female Player-of-the-Year mother/daughter duo of Anna Leigh and Leigh Waters. This month, we are announcing the 2019 male Player-of-the-Year. You will recall last year’s male Player-of-the-Year was none other than the Valley’s very own Dick Johnson, known to so many of us around pickleball in the Phoenix…

New Horizons Writers’ Group

Feet on New Soil Bob Hirt His wife had died less than a year earlier and the war in Europe was about to start. Shockingly, she and her baby both passed during childbirth of the fourth child. The man, my grandfather, still very much in grief, and with three little ones already under a housekeeper’s…

IMGA News and Events

Bruce McCorkle At the time of this printing, the Ironwood Cup results were not yet in. Stay tuned. President Joe D’Amore and Bruce McCorkle have appealed to BlueStar to provide the four Ironwood Golf Leagues with an appropriate trophy case in the clubhouse after the upcoming renovations. Treasurer Dan Jonker reports that the league’s financial…