Items by Mary Sojourner
In front of the Flagstaff post office, Mary Sojourner
talks to strangers about ending the war in Iraq and feeding the
hungry.
The Boy Who Invented Skiing" is the
memoir of Swain Wolfe, who spent his boyhood in a Colorado Springs
tuberculosis sanatorium in the '30s
The writer says she’s a feminist and an
environmentalist, but don’t call her a Nazi
A wild bird helps teach a woman how to let go of the need
to own things
Mary Sojourner writes about the haves and have nots in
Flagstaff
Happy Sounds in Arizona
Mary Sojourner heads for the desert and finds a
reader’s oasis.
It’s a snap these days to call yourself
"green"
Mark Spragg's first novel, The Fruit of Stone, is the
story of a Western road trip that “runs like a hard back
road, gorgeous and tricky.”
Writers who use the editorial "we" should remember how
large and diverse that American "we" can be
An anti-war demonstration in Flagstaff, Ariz., leads the
writer to consider that our leaders are becoming more and more
removed from the people, living and governing in isolation behind
high and fortified walls.
Encouraged by an East Coast editor, the writer gives her
outspoken opinion of the "Real West," and the editor turns it
down.
A new database that allows one to register the fancy names
of luxury homes for $75 a house will not get a lot of use by those
who live in houses with names like Sagging Floor and Mortgage
Manor.
Overjoyed at the ruling that means the Dry Lake volcanic
area near Flagstaff, Ariz., will not be developed as planned, an
activist still feels compassion for the developer, remembering her
own gambling days and how it feels to gamble and lose.
A woman ponders the addiction to gambling which keeps her
- and many others who can't afford it - going back to Nevada's slot
machines, over and over.
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