Arizona is my home, more importantly my hometown is Lakeside, Arizona. I love the area that I come from; personally, I feel that you can’t beat the feeling that a rural community gives you. The ability that I had to just take off into the woods with my family or friends is something you can’t…
Growing up my siblings and me were often left at my grandparent’s house in Coalmine Canyon while my mother worked. Coalmine Canyon is on the Navajo Nation and the Old Coalmine is where we lived. Coalmine Canyon was a beautiful place to grow up. There was a chapter house where my grandmother wove rugs. The…
I grew up, for the most part, in Fort Madison, Iowa, a town of 12,000 people on the Mississippi River. As a teenager, I was frustrated by the lack of shopping, cultural events, and in general, the overall sense of “There’s nothing to do,” but I always appreciated the absolute safety that many teens took…
I live in a small town in central Arizona called Casa Grande. There are many advantages to living in Casa Grande, for one it lays right in between Phoenix and Tucson, the two biggest cities in Arizona. Casa Grande gets the advantages of a small town environment with the big city advantages twenty minutes away….
My mom and dad were both born in Arizona. I have lived in Arizona all of my life with the exception of the last year and a half. My mom moved to Fresno, California in August of 2004 for an employment opportunity. My sister, brother and I piled in the U-Haul and said goodbye to…