SBINSIDER REPORTING JANUARY 3rd, 2026 SaddleBrooke residents benefit from the many talents of our own residents. One of those outstanding talents is Susan Kravitz (better known as Sonoran Sue). Besides her columnist duties, she is the producer, writer and director of a series of comedy skits that will premier [...]
Out here in the Sonoran Desert, we respect reality. We don’t hike at noon in August, we don’t argue with javelinas, and we don’t make New Year’s resolutions that tempt fate. Yet every January, perfectly sensible adults announce goals that have the life expectancy of a grocery-store poinsettia. Take I will [...]
Submitted by a Loyal Reader: December 28th, 2025 While walking around SaddleBrooke, I discovered an ancient-looking bottle in the bushes. I opened it and out came an enormous Genie, who said I will grant you one wish. I replied that I wished for peace in the Middle East. The [...]
The board of HOA2 has voted to serve HOA1 board notice that it is contemplating executing the option to no longer operate under the shared facilities agreement (RUA) between HOA1 and HOA2. The vote was unanimous. The HOA2 board gave the HOA1 BOD until December 31, 2026 to have [...]
Dear Sonoran Sue, I read this wild news article about a raccoon breaking into a liquor store in Virginia, getting drunk on the bottom-shelf scotch, smashing up the place, then passing out on the bathroom floor. Animal control found him snoring like he’d been on a bender with my [...]
The Community Circle Players (CCP) has always had the vision of bringing sophisticated wide-ranging plays to the SaddleBrooke audience and since 2016 have delivered. Comedy often makes its appearance but CCP has delivered serious drama (Witness for the Prosecution) and plays that are directly targeted to the over 65 [...]
CONTRIBUTED BY OUR RESIDENT ERMA BOMBECK...\November 30th. 2025 Dishing Retirement Life with a Side of Prickly Pear By the time the last piece of pumpkin pie was stuffed, and the tryptophan fog settled over Saddlebrooke, I did what any responsible journalist would do. I poured a modest digestif (medicinal), [...]
BY GLORIA WOLF MPH and PROFESSIONAL FOODIE| November 23rd, 2025 Thanksgiving dinner is a tradition and in our family, traditionally at our house. Year after year I made fresh cranberry orange relish and year after year I mostly ate it myself. I loved it, but I think I was [...]
Sonoran Sue Speaks Out I was out on the town this week, fighting traffic, when I realized we have officially entered the most confusing season of all: that magical, bewildering, fattening stretch known as Hallogiving, which starts in September, soon to be followed by its even more unhinged cousin, [...]
SUBMITTED BY A SADDLEBROOKE VETERAN| November 15th, 2025 Editor's Note: SaddleBrooke has its own tyrannical elements-a tiny minority of people who think that any event held in HOA spaces must be free of any religious expression or overtones (unless it is their religion) of course. SBINSIDER will attempt to [...]
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