Sonoran Sue Speaks Out: Out and about in the ‘Brooke today. How silly of me to forget! It’s Halloween — that magical time when mature adults (and I use that term the way Fry’s uses “fresh”) transform into a mob of sugar-fueled toddlers in polyester costumes. Let’s get one [...]
October 18th, 2025 Dear Sonoran Sue, I had the fright of my life while shopping at the Fry’s on Oracle. A bear had wandered into the store! I was in fresh produce when I heard someone shout, “Bear in aisle seven!! I immediately armed myself with two unripe cantaloupes and assumed [...]
Dear Sonoran Sue, I am new to the Saddlebrooke community and a keen observer of human behavior. I love to walk early in the mornings, and I’ve become aware of a certain dog-walker’s social circle. It is very tight. They refer to their dogs as their children, exchange detailed [...]
(Because in SaddleBrooke, some legends are baked in the desert sun until they fossilize.) Dear Sonoran Sue, Years ago, we heard a Fry’s supermarket was going to be built right here on Oracle and SaddleBrooke Blvd. Land was cleared, we had a Porta-Potty sighting, and dreams were born. Then—nothing. [...]
Sonoran Sue: What’s up with the Monsoons?? Dear Sonoran Sue: “We’re rounding 3rd base into Labor Day That robust Monsoon season we were promised has been a total bust in Saddlebrooke. My skin is drier than my sister-in-law’s Thanksgiving turkey! I saw lots of Cumulonimbus, those fluffy thunderheads hovering over us, but they seemed to [...]
CONTRIBUTED BY ALFRED E. NEUMAN | August 16th, 2025 Trying to catch a train in the mid-19th century was no easy feat: At the time, more than 144 local time zones were spread across North America. Before the invention of railway travel and train schedules, these slight time discrepancies [...]
EXCLUSIVE| CONTRIBUTED BY PETER PARADY| August 16th, 2025 As shown in the photo, a mysterious Unidentified Floating Object (UFO) was seen floating free in the lake on SaddleBrooke two. The object which presumably was intraterriterial in origin, was eventually towed out of the lake by the authorities. According to [...]
Dear Sonoran Sue, The rains last night were glorious—but this morning, I found what looked like a greased-up baked potato with eyelids giving me the stink-eye from my patio. A neighbor said it’s a Sonoran Desert toad and warned me not to let my dog near it. Later, I saw at [...]
Sonoran Sue Dishing Retirement Life with a Side of Prickly Pear Dear Sonoran Sue, Help! It’s 112 degrees in the shade, and my normally sweet, brownie baking wife has turned into a heatwave harpy. She won’t let me open the blinds (“the sunlight’s attacking me”), and threw an entire chicken salad [...]
Meet Sonoran Sue! Advice for the flummoxed, love-lorn and hirsute challenged Dear Sonoran Sue, My husband and I recently attended a “meet and greet appetizer party” in our unit.It was supposed to be a casual way to meet neighbors, but we left more confused than welcomed. The men and [...]
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