Tourist Trap
I told my mom I was going to Casa Grande and she said, “The outlet mall?” That’s how I’d always thought of it too, and it’s exactly why I wanted to visit the ruins there.
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I told my mom I was going to Casa Grande and she said, “The outlet mall?” That’s how I’d always thought of it too, and it’s exactly why I wanted to visit the ruins there.
Christopher Yen Lately we’ve been feeling schizophrenic, or at least stretched too thin. So we’re changing gears a little this month, narrowing our focus, and dedicating this and future issues to a single nonprofit topic.
Christopher Yen One hundred years is an extraordinary sum. On the other hand, in the language of the cosmos or rocks, it’s barely a flash in the pan.
Christopher Yen Happy New Year and welcome to 2012’s first installment of Frontdoors. Like many of you, we’ve got a laundry list of plans and resolutions for the next 365 days. One of them is to provide more and expanded daily web content, including up to the minute information on grants, nonprofits and social events.
Christopher Yen How time can move both fast and slow amazes me. Some years pass like comets and others more like kidney stones. It’s only a matter of perspective, of course, but from mine 2011 sure has been a heck of a long one.
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