How many handshake rituals have you participated in, in your lifetime? I’m guessing thousands. And yes, I said ritual. Have you…

“We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.” – Hernan Cortes   No doubt you’ve…

Fa from faich (fa!) “behold!” or “see!” Fe from Fiadh (fee-a) “food”; Fi from fiú “good to eat” Fo from…

I’m not crazy.  My reality is just different from yours. – Cheshire Cat So this isn’t going to be a…

  There are two sorts of curiosity – the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd…

“Everything tries to be round” -Black Elk Although not located entirely in the Phoenix area I include Sky Islands on…

Just east of Phoenix, perched atop the Superstition Mountain range lay the mysterious and well-preserved ruins of Circlestone. Like a…

Just over the Colorado River in California, near the towns of Blythe and Yuma, and also in Sacaton Arizona along…

This is the story Ho’ok or Haw-awk (as it is written in this story), a girl who was born to…

On April 5th, 1909 one of the most fascinating articles ever to cross the front page of an Arizona newspaper…