Nancy Elliott

 DESERT SNOW (C)  Duane Lawrence and use by permission.                    

    Back in my “radio” days, also known as “when I was a police communications dispatcher” for Arizona Highway Patrol, we faced plenty of widely varied calls. Our training was intense, pretty…

Photo by Bob Block

The summer 2015 I moved my sewing shop from my home to Monterey Court on Miracle Mile in Tucson, Arizona. I was also still working at Arizona Department of Public Safety. It was a few months…

    No one told me. No one at all. No one who had known him for fifty plus years, no one who had known him bothered to speak to me. I guess you could call him a person of note, a…

          In the late 1980's retired navy test pilot friend of mind told me that he was always taking some kind of class at the college in order to keep sharp. And, he was indeed sharp, so I began doing the…

    My sleeping children. Two little dreamers who trusted me so deeply they would not stir when I fetch them from the baby sitter. Who, in the morning, wake up in their beds happy and charge out to greet me as…

About a week or so ago, we had some good rain here in the desert. What my Navajo friends would call a mostly “female rain,” a nurturing rain. Over the course of two days the rain fell rather gently most…

31 July, 2024

Dearest friends and readers,
   August is upon us! 
   Growing up in Ohio, August was the time of the Greene County Fair, a herald of fall. It’s when we started gathering our things together for the coming school…

November Desert Dispatches

Hello Friends,
    Here’s hoping this finds you and yours well and happily preparing for the holiday season.
The weather is co-operating here in the Great Sonoran Desert with night time temps in the 40's and day time…

                                                                      The Lincoln

    In 2005 my parents bought their first new car ever - A Lincoln Signature Town Car. That fall, when they flew out to visit me, Mom was so excited to tell me all about it. As I recall…

Desert Dispatches 28 April, 2024

Hello Friends!
           I hope you are well and happy and full of Springtime.
           We desert dwellers are enjoying cool weather right now, which “they” tell us is right on target for this time of year…