There were many strange things afoot on this cruise o' debauchery. Nonetheless, the music was fantastic and Greyhound Soul was exceptional. … [Read more...]
Greyhound Soul @ City Limits 2003
Greyhound Soul is one of Tucson's longest running bands still playing shows. I've been enjoying the gigs since 1999! Read: Greyhound Soul’s 20 Years of Rock & Roll. … [Read more...]
Once Upon A Time
Once upon a time, I was an athlete. Swimming was my sport, and I was pretty decent. I made the state competitions in fall of 1992 as part of a 4x50 freestyle relay team. At 16-years-old, swimming at the UA’s Hillenbrand Aquatic Center was a dream come true! I really didn’t know how I got there. I dismissed the daily hours of training that enabled my body to perform. But, I was used to dismissing myself. It goes with the territory when body shame and self-worth issues are implanted at an early … [Read more...]
Reviving a Nearly Lost Barrio Story
(Published by UANews.org on Feb. 9, 2016 and includes quotes from this article, as requested by the researchers.) The Barrio Stories Project speaks to how downtown Tucson's physical and ethnic landscape has been drastically altered. In the late 1960s, a culturally diverse, 80-acre residential and business district in downtown Tucson was demolished as a consequence of urban renewal and the construction of the Tucson Convention Center complex. More than 100 years of historically … [Read more...]
Songs Stuck on Repeat
(Published by Zocalo Magazine on Sept. 29, 2015.) It’s a nearly universal human phenomenon, an experience that can be a blessing or a curse; educational or irritating; crazy-cool or enough to drive someone crazy. It happens to over 90 percent of us and scientists still don’t really know why. This occurrence is the ubiquitous ear worm – a tune that gets stuck in your head. It spins around ad nauseam, and maybe fades away when more complicated, cerebral tasks come along only to pop up again … [Read more...]
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