Joyful Downsizing: Benefits of Legacy Contacts

Kim Kubsch Imagine that your mother becomes incapacitated at age 78 due to complications from a stroke. You aren’t able to access contact information from her phone or email account to reach her friends to update them on her condition. You know Mom always kept notes and lists on her phone, but without her permission,…

Tennis Club Splashes into Happy Hour Fridays

Barb Jorgensen and Julia Romanin It was a “twofer”! The Cottonwood Tennis Club moved their May Fun Friday Happy Hour event to the Michigan pool on May 31, celebrating both National Tennis Month and National Hamburger Month. Teresa Hermsen and her crew organized the event with barbecued hamburgers and hot dogs and chips for more…

IronOaks Lady Breakers: Prize Challenges

Our ladies league meets every week year round except holidays. This is the time of the year when some of our members take off for less warm climates and the best time to come check us out and get some weekly practice without even joining! You’re in charge, and you decide whether our group of…

Desert Threads Quilters Busy with Charity Projects

Joan Carver With the election of 2024-25 board officers and appointment of committee chairs, Desert Threads Quilt Guild, a chapter of Arizona Quilters Guild (AQG), is ready for the hot summer. The Community Services Committee put together kits for members to be able to quickly create quilt tops for the variety of charities supported. Desert…

Word of the Month: Brook

David Zapatka While reading Esoteric Astrology by Alice A Bailey, I read, “He is instantly aware, once he is spiritually awakened, of his motivating impulses, and this leads him to an imposed self-discipline-the thing the Leo subject sorely needs and which must always be self-imposed and self-applied for he brooks no disciplinary measures which others…