Thanks for the thanks

Each month the Garage receives a card with a note and a widow’s mite from a man who moved from Prescott to Tucson several years ago. In December he wrote: Once again, thank you for the hospitality. To this day I tell everyone about the Garage and how much it helped in...

Epistle Spring 2018

Two not-too-tall travelers tales Pulaski and the Great Switcheroo Pulaski was hitchhiking but mostly hiking walking and walking some more, stalking the end of another endless highway in the parched desert of his particular dreams He found someone doing the same damn...

Quixote’s Quips Dec. 2017

Whoever said the grass is greener on the other side has never been below it. – James Wright I like being depressed; it’s the only thing that makes me happy. – Mark You pay by the rules. – Mathew, a probationer I’m going to the big shelter in the sky. – Dennis When my...

Epistle Winter 2017

The photos and text are by my daughter Claudia. In September, she and I truck-camped the Tucson-to-Pennsylvania route that Doug (my late husband, her father) and I took on our bicycles 40 years ago. Both trips were great fun, and this time I learned that the Quixote...

Quips in August 2017

Computers smell fear. – Josh I am not homeless; I’m mortgageless. – Lee Know what they call a pimple on your butt? A brain tumor. – James To Quixote’s Jigsaw: My catma overrules your dogma. – Terry “They” don’t make things the way they used to because they’re all...