Recently I was a guest on a podcast and the topic turned to what made Arizona, well, Arizona. We are more than a melting pot. That would just be a collection of things, more of a recipe. A melting pot coalesces everything and just makes the “dish” kind of homogenous. With a mulligan stew, on […]
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If I hadn’t seen it for myself, I would not have believed it. the Tucson Festival of Books at the University of Arizona Campus is huge–it takes over the mall for two days every April. This year I was invited to this event by my author friend, Lisa Schnebly Hedinger. She and her co-author, Julie
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Growing up in this town there were lots of local personalities that produced (and many times, starred in) TV advertisements for their businesses. This is not a Tucson-only phenomenon, but, you have to admit, we have had our share of characters over the years. “Call for Wally! Call for Wally! For an estimate Free, given
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Four years. 79 episodes. 65 guests. Four producers. Over 2,000 social media posts Dozens of meetings and phone calls. Beyond the numbers, Coffee With Claire was about people. Stories. Experiences. And Claire. It migrated from being “internet television” to becoming a video and audio podcast. Claire interviewed guests about everything from the subconscious to storm
