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Monday, June 17, 2013

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Now you can take our calendar with you!

Posted on: May 1, 2013 by Behind the Zine No Comments

YOU BROWSE the back of our magazine, using her research to plan your family leisure time. You watch our website each Friday to learn her picks for weekend fun. Maybe you listen to her highlight the weekend’s events during Friday afternoon appearances on Arizona Midday. Now you can carry her vast knowledge with you everywhere [...]

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So much different, and so much the same

Posted on: April 1, 2013 by Behind the Zine No Comments

The first time we published an article about autism was in November 2001. Writer Lynn Trimble interviewed a number of Valley parents whose children have autism, including Denise Resnik, co-founder of what is now the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center, or SARRC. Denise told us about her son Matthew, then 9, and the challenges [...]

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Guns and growth

Posted on: March 1, 2013 by Behind the Zine No Comments

HIS NAME WAS Steven Hart and he was one of the cutest and most captivating guys in my entire middle school. Lots of girls secretly paired their name with his, but one in particular considered him hers. So she was the one we flocked to when we heard the news. Steven was at home when [...]

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Before you know it…

Posted on: February 1, 2013 by Behind the Zine No Comments

The tow-truck driver must have wondered what he’d gotten himself into. When he rang the doorbell, I appeared wearing flannel pajama bottoms, an oversized sweatshirt and my worn (but super-comfortable) slippers. My hair was a mess, my face was red and my eyes were swollen. With all the news about this year’s virulent flu, he [...]

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In search of two former Girl Scouts

Posted on: January 27, 2013 by Behind the Zine No Comments

It was a quiet Friday afternoon in mid-October. No deadlines were looming; my “to do” list was uncharacteristically short. So I was determined to reorganize (finally!) the haphazardly packed magazine archives that we shoved into boxes during a hasty, flooding-related evacuation from our office in June. We had been working from our homes all summer [...]

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Advice for the royal lady in waiting

Posted on: January 1, 2013 by Behind the Zine No Comments

We were just about to send this magazine to the printer when we heard the news that Kate Middleton—or, more properly, Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge—is expecting a child. The timing was serendipitous. We welcome the beginning of each new year with a focus on pregnancy and birth; this issue offers all sorts of pregnancy [...]

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Hanging together

Posted on: December 1, 2012 by Behind the Zine No Comments

This time of year I try to remember that the best gifts in life are those I too often take for granted: my ever-supportive husband, my smart and sensible sons, my loving extended family and friends and the loyal, steadfast team of people that make up the editorial, circulation, advertising and technical strength behind RAISING [...]

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Rising to service

Posted on: November 1, 2012 by Behind the Zine No Comments

Every two years, grief experts and grieving families come to Arizona from all over the world. For three days, they participate in educational workshops, panel discussions and healing activities designed to support the most difficult of journeys. The conference is hosted by the Arizona-based MISS Foundation, a nonprofit established to provide resources and support to [...]

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Deja, deja, deja vu – the third (major) office flood

Posted on: October 21, 2012 by Behind the Zine 2 Comments

For a brief moment as I was waking up on Saturday morning, I thought, “It was all a bad dream!” No such luck. Our office — our new office, the one in a completely different suite, in a completely different building, the one we just moved into in August after 72 days of forced evacuation [...]

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Rising to service, rising to challenge

Posted on: October 7, 2012 by Behind the Zine No Comments

Our magazine first explored the difficult topic of a child’s death in 1991, when a local mom shared a first-person account of her own excruciating journey. “Sarah’s Story” was something that I, then the mother of healthy 5- and 3-year-old sons, couldn’t fathom. I still can’t. The impact of her story never left me — [...]

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"Behind the 'Zine" is a look behind the scenes at the people, stories and personal journeys Editor & Publisher Karen Davis Barr has experienced in 24 years of magazine publishing. She also blogs at karenbarr.me.

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