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Unsprawl: Community of Civano in Tucson, Arizona

Unsprawl:
The Community of Civano
Tucson, Arizona

April 14, 2019

By Simmons B. Buntin About the Community of Civano 270-acre New Urbanist neighborhood with adjacent 55-acre “town center” Neigh... Read More...

The House We Live In: New Plans
by Amy Knight

June 19, 2017

Currents, The House We Live In

A Series on Building the Sustainable Home in Tucson, Arizona When you look into the distance in a landscape of rolling hills, somet... Read More...

Remembering Origins, fiction by Susan Feathers

Remembering Origins
by Susan Feathers

June 11, 2017

Fiction

Click button above to hear Susan Feathers read this novel excerpt, or click here to download poem in .mp3 format. It was Dolores ... Read More...

The House We Live In: Disappointment
by Amy Knight

June 5, 2017

Currents, The House We Live In

A Series on Building the Sustainable Home in Tucson, Arizona Reader, it did not go well. I had met with the final bidder right whe... Read More...

The House We Live In: What Ifs
by Amy Knight

May 22, 2017

Currents, The House We Live In

A Series on Building the Sustainable Home in Tucson, Arizona One of the ways I’ve learned, over the years, to cope with anxiety is ... Read More...

The House We Live In: Sad Party
by Amy Knight

May 15, 2017

Currents, The House We Live In

A Series on Building the Sustainable Home in Tucson, Arizona A few years ago, I had gone on a handful of dates with a guy who ... Read More...

The House We Live In: Window
by Amy Knight

May 1, 2017

Currents, The House We Live In

A Series on Building the Sustainable Home in Tucson, Arizona You know that corny old phrase, when God closes a door, he opens a win... Read More...

The House We Live In: Attrition
by Amy Knight

April 24, 2017

Currents, The House We Live In

A Series on Building the Sustainable Home in Tucson, Arizona We sent our bid set to five contractors. One never wrote back. And the... Read More...

The House We Live In: Need
by Amy Knight

April 17, 2017

Currents, The House We Live In

A Series on Building the Sustainable Home in Tucson, Arizona For a while, I was taking a medication that made me really sleepy in t... Read More...

The House We Live In: Out for Bid
by Amy Knight

April 10, 2017

Currents, The House We Live In

A Series on Building the Sustainable Home in Tucson, Arizona We finally did it: we sent the drawings out for bid. I feel a little l... Read More...

What the Hawk Sees
by Kirk Wisland

April 7, 2017

Nonfiction

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The jangle of breaking glass shatters the Sunday Houston calm, a commotion reminiscent of errant teenage baseballs wreaking neighbor... Read More...

Letter to America
Prose + Paintings by Patri Hadad

April 6, 2017

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

Guest Editorial Dear United States, You are not the only America. My cousins in Argentina would say to m... Read More...

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