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• November 28, 2025
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Jordanian Dirt I am working on an essay about I book I read a few months ago, entitled The Map of Salt and Stars, by Zeyn Joukhadar (2018). The...

• October 22, 2025
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In early October my mother and I went for petite road trip to northern Arizona to stay in a hogan within the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. On the...

• September 19, 2025
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I love tough plants. A tough, beautiful, useful plant is a superstar. Big saltbush – also called quailbush in the desert Southwest – is just such a wonderment. There...

• August 20, 2025
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This is hardly the last thing I will have to say about shade. Here in Tucson we are having our second consecutive ‘nonsoon’ – the monsoon that doesn’t show...

• August 9, 2025
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I missed last week because I drove to California to help my mother host a family reunion, of sorts, in memory of my aunt, who would have been 99...

• July 26, 2025
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First, thank you to everyone who has been kind enough to write me about the website and blog. I’ve had a few questions about my logo/ page-loader (shout-out to...

• July 18, 2025
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I plan to post occasionally about arid-adapted species I particularly love, and I have to start with superstition mallow (Abutilon palmeri – https://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=3968 ). Native to the Sonoran desert...

• July 12, 2025
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I’ll be the first to agree that this website is a peculiar assemblage – a fragment of a novel; a collection of articles about deforestation, Muslim shrines, a park...