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 [...]
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), [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
FROM HISTORY TODAY The jack-o’-lantern has its roots in Irish lore — specifically, the legend of a man called “Stingy Jack,” who tried to trick the devil and suffered the consequences. There are many versions of the tale, but the gist is that Jack invited the devil for a drink but [...]
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 [...]
Sonoran Sue: Dishing Retirement Life with a Side of Prickly Pear| July 12th, 2025 Sonoran Sue tackles your burning questions with the wisdom of a sun-scorched saguaro and the attitude of a woman who’s had it with everything. This issue: the uphill battle of “escaping the heat” by heading to [...]
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 [...]
Sonoran Sue: Dishing Retirement Life with a Side of Prickly Pear Dear Sonoran Sue, Yesterday I was at the self-checkout lane at Walmart when the man next to me—who I now refer to as “Avocado Apocalypse Guy”—completely lost it. He apparently rang up too many avocados, insisted the machine [...]
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